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Summary: THE SCARY QUEEN!
Review: I agree with a previous review that this movie was too long. The story was too drawn out. As far as the Snow Queen was concerned, she needed a valium to calm her down and possibly help with her quicksilver mood swings. The polar bear was a creative idea, but why was he there? and why did he turn into a human in the end? I did enjoy the love story, but the young man didn't seem to get a grasp on who he wanted. Add the heroine with her journey to get her love back, and this three hour production became very frustrating for the characters and the audience. The love story seemed rushed, if it could be rushed in three hours, and a bit unbelievable. I felt they should have developed that more and maybe edited the Fall Queen's story, or even the long drawn out scenes with the Snow Queen. Ultimately, this movie was a disappointment to me. I was looking for something with more emotional substance. If you agree, try watching Snow White. It is a wonderful story.
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Summary: Bizarre!!!
Review: I am not familiar with the original story that this is supposed to portray, but being familiar with Hans Christian Andersons other works, I am certain this isn't where he went with the story!
I felt fairly safe renting this since it's produced by Hallmark. I have always had positive experiences with their other movies like Sarah Plain and Tall and The Odyssey. After this movie, however, I won't be trusting the Hallmark name again as a guarantee of quality.
There are so many things to take issue with. First the acting! I have seen Bridget Fonda in other movies and while she has never been an amazing actress, she has been watchable (Point of No Return and It Could Happen to You for example). But she was atrocious in this role. She was completely unbelievable as the Snow Queen - she had no bearing, no regal composure, no je ne sais quois. Instead she was vampy, spoiled, pouty, and vapid. Her "seduction" of Kai was lame and painful to watch. The only reason one can be led to believe it would work is because the charcter of Kai was so pathetic and wooden to begin with.
The acting of all the supporitng cast was equally awful. No one had the same accent. Gerda, Kai, Gerda's father, the housekeeper, all people from the same area (and same family with the exception of Kai) had different accents. The housekeeper and Gerda's father had a vauguely pan European accent but Kai and Gerda sounded like mush mouthed *American* kids. The characters were all caricatures - the Queen of each season was a horror! All spoiled, emotionally unbalanced, and bizarre. I could go on and on with the acting, but suffice to say I have seen better in elementary school plays.
The structure of the story is also very disjointed. The parts do not flow together. Some sections meander on and on for no discernible reason and others are strangely abrupt. When "The Devil" showed up that was it for me. One minute you are watching Gerda travelling through a snow covered forest with a geriatric talking reindeer the next you are watching a bright red tatooed, horned, Satan conjuring a magic mirror from the depths of hell. WTF!
The Music is horrendous also! It is completely at odds with the emotions and periodicity of the movie.
Awful all the way around!
Miss this one at all costs!
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Summary: Romantic and dark, A very pleasing tale
Review: I find that epic movies whether Hallmark or any kind sometimes end up being too cute or boring or just over the top for no reason.The Snow Queen was none of these things, starting out as a simple romance between two teens entering adulthood, (she's 17 he's 18) it slowly moves into the magical realms of the seasons as the main character, Gerda, attempts to save her first and only true love from the Snow Queen. The scenery is very lush and beautiful but the thing that truly makes this a fine epic movie is the acting, which is superb. All the characters hold their own weight and I would reccomend this movie to anyone who enjoys an engrossing tale which deals with temptaion, love, and loss, although I agree with the other poster who considers this for the 8 and up set, some of the darker themes may be a little ovewhelming for those younger then eight.
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Summary: ENDLESSLY ROMANTIC
Review: I HAVE ALWAYS LOVE MOVIES FRM HALLMARK.I LOVE THEM ALL.THE SNOW QUEEN IS ENDLESSLY ROMANTIC.THE SECRET LOVE FROM THE 'BEAR' TO THE NOW QUEEN IS SO SWEET.IT MAKES ME CRY AT SOME POINT.THEN WE HAVE THE 'NOT GIVING UP'LOVE SEARCH FRM GERDA TO KAI.HOW BEAUTIFUL AS SHE EMBARKS FRM SEASON TO SEASON TRYING TO CLAIM HER STOLEN LOVE LIFE.ALL THESE COMES TO A HAPPY ENDING FOR GERDA AND THE SNOW QUEEN.I HAVE WATCHED THEM 3TIMES SINCE I BOUGHT THEM 30DAYS AGO.
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Summary: Frozen hearts...
Review: I really enjoyed this movie. I actually rented it based upon the cover of the DVD itself. Love it ... beautiful cover. The movie was great too though. I have seen other versions of this fairy tale, Snow Queen, and loved those ... but I must say I am partial to this one. SNOW QUEEN seemed like a VERY long movie, but I kind of liked that about it. It was like you were going through the different seasons with the characters. It made you better feel what they were going through. Kai and Gerda are the 2 main characters ... both are great actors. I believed they were truly in love. The story line is excellent, as is the setting and dialogue. For this type of "innocent" movie, it doesn't get much better than this. The script keeps you entertained ... love the Snow Queen (exceptional acting on her part), and the psycho sister Queen, (I think it was Spring?) was OK too, but I didn't much care for the "Robber/Gypsy Autumn Queen." It didn't quite fit. I'm guessing the directors did this because they wanted each season to be distinctly different from one another. For a "children's" movie, as a 20 something year old, I really enjoyed watching Snow Queen. I would say it's OK for children 8 years and older. If you like fantasy/fairy tale movies, SEE SNOW QUEEN. It will melt your heart.
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Summary: Very nice story
Review: I really liked it-it's such a nice fantasy movie.You have to watch it!Also,I've got a question for you guys-does someone know anything about the song in the movie?It's fantastic.I know it's called "The two of us will always be one",but I'm wondering about the performer.If someone knows,please write back!
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Summary: Drags On and On...Just Like Winter
Review: I recently took this off the shelf at my local video rental store because the picture on the box showed a white haired Bridget Fonda dressed in a beautiful sparkly white dress and a snow white cloak made of feathers. It looked to me like Hallmark Entertainment was going to at least try to do this film up right.
As it turned out, a lavish budget did provide many beautiful costumes, sets, and location scenery, but the simplicity and innocence of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale got lost in three hours of so-so acting, a poor screen play, dreadful dialog, bad film editing and lousy direction from David Wu. In the original fairy tale the protagonists are two children named Kay and Gerda. In this film Kay has been changed to Kai and both Kai and Gerda are young adults who are in love. One day Kai gets beguiled by the Snow Queen who rules the season of Winter and he is kidnapped and taken to her Ice Palace. Gerda begins a long (and in this film I do mean LONG) quest to discover his whereabouts and to rescue him. In order to do this she must travel through the lands of the other Seasons. She meets with the eccentric denizens of Spring, Summer and Autumn and each of them attempts to kidnap her. The idiosyncratic Andersen's take on the seasons was odd enough in the original story, but in this film is all the more exaggerated. Kai has a talking Polar Bear (crafted with skill by Jim Henson's Creature Works) for a prison guard. His involvment with the polar bear is one of the many reasons this movie drags. Several ridiculous minutes are spent with Kai teaching the bear to ice-skate, for example. The actors portraying Wolfgang, the father, Gerda, and Kai are tolerable if not note-worthy. Bridget Fonda, in my opinion, was not right for the part of the Snow Queen. Her performance is lackluster and she delivers her lines as though she's LaFemme Nikita rather than a character in a fairy tale. She looks the part but she doesn't seem particularly frosty or seductive as the script calls for her to be. Her lines are delivered in a flat emotionless way that I suppose is meant to be icy, but comes off as dull. You really wonder how in the world Kai could have been beguiled by such a person. The interior sets, the costumes, the lighting...all the cosmetic trim of this film are beautiful and they are what made me so want to love this movie, but the magic is missing and I was never able to get swept away by the story. At three hours in length and with a plot that focuses on mature themes of love lost, grief and seduction, even suicide, this film is most decidedly NOT for children of any age. Yet, with the corny talking bear and a talking reindeer and some really silly robber characters, I can't say it is a film for adults, either. There is some really cheesy dialog that is too much like modern slang for example when the Summer Princess comments on Gerda's dress by saying, "That peasant look is so last year," or later when she asks Gerda, "Do I look a porker in this dress?" There is a whole lot of trite symbolism featuring red roses that further takes up time for no real benefit. In the original story Andersen has a "demon" creating havok with a magical mirror but in the film the minor league demon has been changed to Satan himself and they actually say the mirror is crafted in Hell. They make the devil look really cliche in this film and I feel it was too heavy-handed and out of sync with the rest of the picture. Sadly, this production just doesn't work. Even with a big budget, lavish decorations and costumes, talented actors, and a story that has enchanted people for over a century and a half, it still falls flat. I'd say skip this one...and for sure, do not try to make your kids sit through it. It's no fun.
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Summary: A must see film!!!!!!!
Review: I saw the Snow Queen on sky 1 over Christmas and i LOVED it! I loved the Snow Queen i thought she was great and was played very well. Kai and Gerda are quite annoning and me and my friends Sarah and the Louise wanted to shoot Gerda and Kai sometimes. I thought the ending was good and liked the polar bear he was good too. I loved the Snow Queen so much that i searched the internet looking for the DVD suitable for my DVD player. I never had heard of Bridget Fonda before i watched the Snow Queen but she played the Snow Queen so well that i found what other films she was in and now she's my favourite actress.Dont just watch the snow queen watch other films with Miss Fonda in them too and see what a talanted actress she is...... but what do i know im other 13!
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Summary: A pathetic attempt
Review: I saw this movie when it debuted on Hallmark. I wouldn't spend a half penny to buy it. While the wintry scenery is enjoyable, the plot fails quickly and the film is buried up to its eyebrows in poor acting. The spirit of winter comes out looking like a sadistic, homocidal sociopath with possible nymphomanical tendencies (ex. kidnapping Kai and constantly attempting to seduce him). The heroine is weakly portrayed and her supposed love for Kai is never demonstrated to any level higher than infatuation. The film is far too long; with the commercials, it ran for four hours. I stayed up till midnight only out of morbid curiosity to see how it might just possibly end. It's also intriguing how the writer tries to make Satan appear to be the cause of seasonal change. All in all, this movie is pathetic. It only deserves one star, and that only because of the efforts put in by the set designers.
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Summary: A Love Story Within
Review: I thought that this movie was awesome! A total must see for anyone who believe's in true love. I thought that at the beginning when Kai and Gerda first fell in love was the best part of the movie. And as she is going through all this trouble to find him, you can tell that she is determined and that she really loves him. ... It's a great plot, and the snow queen is excellent!! She brings the character to life. ... I Love this Movie!
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