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FROZEN 2 Behind The Scenes Clips, Songs & Bloopers

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Elsa’s biggest anthem yet gets a look behind the curtain.

Disney’s Frozen 2 hit theaters in November 2019, and a new behind-the-scenes reel from Flicks And The City pulls back the recording-booth doors to show how the sequel actually came together. The footage mixes voice-session B-roll, live vocal takes and outright bloopers from the cast that made the original 2013 film a phenomenon. It’s a rare chance to watch the songs and dialogue get built from scratch, mistakes and all.

• The clip package features returning voice cast members Idina Menzel (Elsa), Kristen Bell (Anna), Jonathan Groff (Kristoff) and Josh Gad (Olaf) recording dialogue and outtakes in the booth.
• Songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez returned to write the film’s new numbers, including Elsa’s anthem “Into the Unknown” and Kristoff’s 1980s power-ballad send-up “Lost in the Woods.”
• Directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, with producer Peter Del Vecho, sent Anna and Elsa outside Arendelle this time to dig into the origin of Elsa’s powers.

Inside the Booth

The B-roll shows exactly what a Disney animated-musical recording session looks like when the cameras are rolling on the actors instead of the animation. Musical coaches worked alongside the cast take after take, and animation supervisors filmed live reference footage of Menzel, Bell, Groff and Gad performing lines and songs so their real facial movements, breathing and physical blocking could be translated onto the digital characters frame by frame. That reference footage isn’t a novelty extra — it’s the actual technical backbone the animators build from.

The bloopers embedded in the reel come out of that same process. Watching a take go sideways, an actor break character, or a line get flubbed mid-song is a byproduct of just how much live performance actually goes into these movies before a single frame gets animated.

Building the Songs

Anderson-Lopez and Lopez, the married songwriting team behind the original Frozen’s “Let It Go,” came back to write the sequel’s score, and the reel captures pieces of two of the film’s signature numbers taking shape: “Into the Unknown,” Elsa’s showcase power ballad, and “Lost in the Woods,” Kristoff’s deliberately over-the-top ’80s rock homage. Seeing Menzel and Groff work through these songs in session, rather than as finished mixes, shows how much vocal experimentation happens before a track is locked.

The recording sessions turn “Lost in the Woods” from a punchline in the finished film into a genuine glimpse of Groff building a power ballad from the ground up.

The Animation Behind Nokk and Gale

The production side of the footage gets into just how much technical lifting went into the film’s new mythic characters. The Nokk, a water spirit that appears throughout the story, required animators to solve complex fluid-dynamics problems to make a horse-shaped creature made of water move convincingly. Gale, the wind spirit, presented a different puzzle entirely — how do you animate something invisible? The studio’s answer involved a proprietary VR-assisted pathing tool nicknamed “Swoop,” which let animators block out Gale’s movement in three-dimensional space before translating it into the finished shots. Disney reportedly spent months refining both characters before they were ready for the film.

Fans who track how Disney and other studios push their animation pipelines forward with each release will find plenty to dig into in the latest movie releases, and the studio’s parallel work on properties like Trollhunants: Rise of the Titans shows the same appetite for building out mythic creature designs from scratch.

A Sequel That Leaves Arendelle

Where the first film stayed largely within Arendelle’s borders, Frozen 2 sends Anna and Elsa beyond the kingdom to trace the origin of Elsa’s magic — the narrative engine that gives Nokk, Gale and the rest of the new mythology a reason to exist. Lee and Buck’s call to send Anna and Elsa outside Arendelle is exactly why the animators had to crack the Nokk’s fluid dynamics and build a tool like “Swoop” just to get Gale moving on screen.

Menzel still has to sell “Into the Unknown” as a bigger vocal moment than “Let It Go” ever was, and the bloopers reel makes clear she got there through plenty of takes, not one clean pass. That’s really the whole point of releasing this kind of footage right as the movie hits theaters — it lets the fans who’ll be belting these songs in their cars for the next year see exactly what it took to get them right.