Universal-International
Directed by Lev Atamanov
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Westlake Entertainment Group)
After an embarrassing prologue with Art Linkletter opening Christmas presents with a bunch of kids in suits and formal dresses, the original animated Soviet film is presented dubbed in English and with new music and songs. It's a Hans Christian Andersen story about two young Danes falling in love, only to have an evil "ice queen" freeze the heart of the boy who angers her. The heartbroken girl tries to win him back, but he is taken away by the queen to her palace. The girls searches for him with the help of an old woman, a raven, some other animals, then another woman she meets in Lapland. Eventually she is able to free him from the queen and they return to their old home and garden. Convoluted story is imaginative but hard to follow, made even worse in the Americanized version.
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