Today Disney announced a new Frozen short that will play before their live action version of Cinderella. (Have you ever seen anything get as much promotion as this new Cinderella movie?? IT IS EVERYWHERE.)
What’s the plot of this new Frozen short?
It’s Anna’s birthday and Elsa, Olaf and Kristof are throwing her a huge party. With CAKE. And Anna shaped ice sculptures. The only thing that could make this movie more appealing to Mazzy and Harlow is if Disney created cartoon versions of my daughters and invited them to the party as well.
Unfortunately for my girls, I think they are way too young for a live action Cinderella, so they’ll have to wait for a pirated copy of the Frozen short to get released on YouTube, just like everybody else.
I know! My 3yr old already asks me to play the trailer again and again and again and again…
Hey Ilana, hello all the way from Abu Dhabi where a HUGE fan of yours resides!
I have to ask – why do you think your girls are too young for the Cinderella movie? I have a daughter just a few weeks older than Harlow, and her father and I have been SO EXCITED to take her to her first movie, which we decided should be the Cinderella movie. She has watched the trailer a zillion times, daily, she is a Princess addict and has watched a million different variations of the Cinderella story on YouTube, as well as the Disney animated movie, she is as obsessed with all of it as anyone, and I already know she can sit through a movie, thanks to Frozen and Tangled! We figured it will be the best way to introduce her to the cinema, by taking her to something she will definitely love so much and which I thought is suitable. Her father and I are even more excited than she can ever be, coz this means it’s perhaps BACK TO THE MOVIES for us after two and a half years away!!
But when I read that you felt your girls were too young, I realised I might be missing something. I’d love to know why you think that, just in case I’m letting my excitement get away with me. Maybe I should wait and not take her?? Any advice is welcome!
Thanks so much, keep doing what you’re doing, you’re kind of my idol 😀
The closest my girls have come to live action is the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. They think everything not animated is for grown-ups. I think the live versions of a mean stepmother and stepsisters might be too much for them. Also, I don’t think I want them watching the love story play out. Does that make me a prude? I’m not sure. It seems different when two cartoons kiss right before the movie ends than to watch real people kiss with chemistry on screen. Anyone else want to weigh in on this?
Ok, then that’s just good parenting on your part that you’ve been so careful with what they watch. I’ve not been as vigilant: an MTV music video with scantily clad dancers, and all the random clicking she does on YouTube where she starts off watching an innocent Peppa Pig show and then moves through the crazy Disney toys lady and the Play Doh videos to make up tutorials of how to look like Elsa….it’s insane! Her dad and I kiss in front of her, but that’s mommys and daddys that are married, and she is constantly kissing all her girlfriends and little boyfriends, but I figured it was all cute innocence….I’m not really thinking ahead, am I! Might have to rethink the live action movie then; she hasn’t sat through anything live action and is much more taken by cartoons but for some reason, we thought Cinderella would be ok. I think at such a young age, it might confuse her considering there are real people on screen. Thanks for the food for thought, I’d honestly love to hear what others think.
I have an 8yo and a 3.5yo and they are very sheltered with media as well. I don’t particularly like the gender roles in the disney movies, especially the passive princesses, and while the animated movies may have slipped past a few times I don’t think yet another white, skinny princess is something I want my kids to aspire to. Mind you, my kids don’t like “Frozen” and their favourite movie is “how to train you dragon” so we may not be a typical family 😉
My 6 year old Emily found the triller on YouTube….and she SCREAMED when she asked to see it. Because when she said. “MOMMY! I wanna watch fwozen Triller!” I assumed she wanted the original and she screamed when it wasn’t frozen fever. And then it randomly came up under suggested….then she spotted the thumbnail for the frozen fever (with Olaf eating cake) then she asked for me to play it again and again. BTW ‘Fwozen’ is how my 6 year old says Frozen. Not another year of frozen! Emily just “Let it go let it go FROZEN IS GONE! LET IT GO! Turn away and slam the DVD! I DONT CARE HOW YOUR GOING TO SCREAM! let the tantrum rage in! Frozen always bothered me anyway!
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I think my daughter is too young to watch the real version of Cinderella. Unless it’s cartoon it doesn’t catch her interest usually.