Frozen should've been called The Snow Queen, because we're going to be talking about this film for a long time and it deserves to have a name that stands the test of time. It's absolutely back to old Disney, you can make comparisons to Aladdin or the Lion King or Mulan without feeling hyperbolic and out of place.
It's an absolutely beautiful film with a really strong central relationship between the two female leads that drives everything else. It has that air of magic and wonder. For the most part it feels timeless, a story that makes sense throughout history and connects with very pure ideas and emotions. Some of Anna's personality feels a bit more modern, but not distractingly so.
Curiously, this is much more a film about teenagers and young adults than children. It's about going out into the world, dealing with the change around you and the way relationships grow and change but most of all it's about embracing the world and the bond you have with other people in, even if it can be scary and you might get hurt.
It has lots of problems, don't expect it to be flawless, but they aren't problems that diminish the film. In particular the time spent with Anna and Cristof felt like it was getting away from what made the film so good. It led to the middle section feeling long and like it was going no-where. There's a character who goes through a personality change in a very cliched way and it's so abrupt that the two figures don't match up at all. None of their later actions make sense in the context of their earlier actions and it felt they shoved them into the villain slot instead of having a nice character but with flaws.
Finally Disney still hasn't completely gotten over itself. Like in the Princess And The Frog they're constantly obsessing over Disney's place and Disney ideas. If you're not going to have a story about True Love then you don't need to talk about it all the time. You can have it and then just go for it, or you can have the characters have different feelings and different things to happen to them. You should be sincere and focused on the emotions present and give them their rightful place in the centre of the story instead of saying 'look we're not doing this' and putting it in other context.
But this is a seriously good film and it makes me excited for Disney going forward telling pure good stories again.
This really is a return to old Disney
Frozen should've been called The Snow Queen, because we're going to be talking about this film for a long time and it deserves to have a name that stands the test of time. It's absolutely back to old Disney, you can make comparisons to Aladdin or the Lion King or Mulan without feeling hyperbolic and out of place.
It's an absolutely beautiful film with a really strong central relationship between the two female leads that drives everything else. It has that air of magic and wonder. For the most part it feels timeless, a story that makes sense throughout history and connects with very pure ideas and emotions. Some of Anna's personality feels a bit more modern, but not distractingly so.
Curiously, this is much more a film about teenagers and young adults than children. It's about going out into the world, dealing with the change around you and the way relationships grow and change but most of all it's about embracing the world and the bond you have with other people in, even if it can be scary and you might get hurt.
It has lots of problems, don't expect it to be flawless, but they aren't problems that diminish the film. In particular the time spent with Anna and Cristof felt like it was getting away from what made the film so good. It led to the middle section feeling long and like it was going no-where. There's a character who goes through a personality change in a very cliched way and it's so abrupt that the two figures don't match up at all. None of their later actions make sense in the context of their earlier actions and it felt they shoved them into the villain slot instead of having a nice character but with flaws.
Finally Disney still hasn't completely gotten over itself. Like in the Princess And The Frog they're constantly obsessing over Disney's place and Disney ideas. If you're not going to have a story about True Love then you don't need to talk about it all the time. You can have it and then just go for it, or you can have the characters have different feelings and different things to happen to them. You should be sincere and focused on the emotions present and give them their rightful place in the centre of the story instead of saying 'look we're not doing this' and putting it in other context.
But this is a seriously good film and it makes me excited for Disney going forward telling pure good stories again.