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Myth: A Frozen Tale (9:40)
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streaming sites: Disney+

This was originally a 3-D VR film released on Oculus Rift in June 2020, but I've only seen the 2-D version that was released on Disney+ in February 2021. (I didn't actually get around to watching it until January 2022.) The version I saw started with 2 minutes of behind the scenes footage. Anyway, there's a family that the internet tells me live outside Arendelle, though I wouldn't have known from the film that they don't live in Arendelle itself. There's a mother, a father, a grandmother, and two young children who ask for a story. They have a particular one in mind, about the fire, water, air, and earth elemental spirits that were introduced in "Frozen II". The mother (voiced by Evan Rachel Wood) reads the story to them, which we see in a different animation style. I think it's still computer animated, but it doesn't quite look like it, for the most part. There's not actually a lot of narration in the film, it's mostly just visuals and music, but there is a story about how a fifth spirit, that of humanity, came into being and at some point "lost its rhythm", which created chaos. So the other four spirits eventually disappeared, never to be seen again (until the events "Frozen II", that is, but this film takes place sometime before that).

There's really not much else to say about it. I'm afraid I found the story underwhelming, and the visuals didn't do a lot for me, either. But it's not bad, and I could certainly understand other people liking it more than I did. I'm glad I finally watched it.


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Frozen franchise
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feature films: Frozen * Frozen II
short films: Frozen Fever * Olaf's Frozen Adventure * Once Upon a Snowman * Myth
series: At Home with Olaf * Olaf Presents