Frozen: the prim princess in an orgy of box office odd

Disney's fairytale has become the biggest grossing animation of all time, despite its straightlaced plot. Stuart Heritage reminds us of the strangeness of the rest of the top 10

Read Peter Bradshaw's four-star review of Frozen

Frozen is now the most successful animated feature film of all time. After opening in Japan this weekend, the film's worldwide grosses now stand at $1.072bn (£644m). In fact, forget animation Frozen is now the 10th biggest film ever. It's bigger than Jurassic Park, than any of the Pirates of the Caribbean films. It's bigger than Star Wars, even. And because it's a Disney film, it will keep raking in cash for decades to come thanks to sales of DVDs and toys and costumes and Broadway musicals. It's unstoppable.

This might be that, despite being an animated movie with limitless possibilities, Frozen has an incredibly traditional Disney fairytale plot. There are princesses, dead parents, eternal winters, terminal illnesses that can only be cured by love and many, many violently sincere songs.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/mar/31/disney-frozen-takes-home-billion-at-box-office-other-animated-blockbusters

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