I have a similar opinion on Let It Go, (unlike you I guess, I do have a song that I particularly love 'Do You Want To Build A Snowman?') but Let It Go seemed to poppy to me to fit in with the tone of what it's saying.
I don't think it really sounded like the kind of person Elsa was. Although I buy her feeling liberated I don't think you can go from reclusive and controlled for most of your life to bold and cool in a moment. I feel like it should have been tinged with some nervousness and a little lack of control (and more reflecting of choosing to build an ice palace by yourself) than the song really sounded
Tom, I liked "In Summer."
...........I regret nothing. *flies away*
In all seriousness I didn't like Let it Go because of character development but because I just...well, I didn't like the song. I think it may have been how overproduced it sounded to me, and it was just really out of place. "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" at least adjusted to fit the mood, which made it a little better.
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I liked most of the songs, but I hated the way they were used. Loathe "Fixer Upper" though.
I agree with you. Visually stunning and I liked a lot of the themes they tried to tackle, but the key word is tried. The story was very contrived and I think for a story about sisterhood, they didn't show enough of Elsa. A lot of the stuff they added...the secondary villain (the main villain), the love interests, Olav....was just useless time-filler.
I'd hesitate to compare Sven to a dog. More like a.... mute, quadrupedal human?
Um, am I missing something here? What was particularly wrong with "fixer upper"?
This review hit the nail on the head for me. There was a lot of nervous laughter and cringing all through Fixer-Upper. I like that Build a Snowman song though.
And I was cheering all through Let It Go because Elsa was fierce in that song! And that singer was killing it! Elsa's singer was a veeery welcome departure from the boring cookie-cutter Broadway singing voices we usually get with Disney songs. And Elsa is a gifted architect. It was an unbelievable and forced transformation, but still fierce.
However, I was uninspired by the movie overall. My almost three-year-old nephew thought it was boring and girly. He sat and didn't say a word the whole time. Which was insane for him! His words after it was over? "Can I watch Western Animation/Turbo?"
It is what it is.
@Lakija
"Elsa's singer was a veeery welcome departure from the boring cookie-cutter Broadway singing voices we usually get with Disney songs."
The singer (and the song itself) actually sounded "broadway" to me, and not in a good way. Like first place winner of a high school talent show. Not bad per se, but over produced and sort of pretentious.
Pffft, that's hilarious because...
that was Idina Menzel.
You know...the broadway singer from Wicked.
But for some reason they decided to autotune the one song that occurs IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.
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It Was OK
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I don't like the changes to the source material. There, I said it.
I don't like that the main character is the same stock character used in Tangled: adorably clumsy, socially awkward, naive, and sporting literally the same character model with a different palette and outfit.
The music was almost exactly the same song over and over again, being peppy and upbeat no matter what the circumstances. As for "Let it Go" which is hailed as the best song in the movie...I don't like it. I don't like that it sounds very produced (now that Elsa has run miles away from civilization she has single-handedly discovered layering and voice correction!)
The film also has some issues with pacing, starting off slowly with an unnecessary amount of exposition and ending very abruptly, with an almost Deus Ex Machina-level epiphany kicking off the inevitable thaw.
The humor was decent, although Disney has really got to stop it with turning horses (and reindeer) into dogs. Seriously, this was the perfect opportunity to give the male lead an actual dog and they opted for a reindeer/dog hybrid instead. The humor did get a little repetitive, which I guess was solved by the very abrupt ending removing space for it to repeat more than twice.
The conflict I found weak in some areas, but am willing to accept for good relationship building. (What I got was decent but typical; the slobbier guy gets the girl because the well-mannered guy is actually an evil mastermind, and the sisters loved each other all along!)
I hate the implications of the song "Fixer Upper" and am a little concerned that they put this in a movie which featured a manipulative romantic relationship and is aimed at young girls. (It also reeeeally messed up the pacing of that scene.)
The voice actors did an AMAZING job bringing life to some fairly dull characters.
The animators never let the female characters make an ugly face if it wasn't for a joke, which bothered me. A lot. Especially remembering the head animator's gaffe about keeping female characters pretty.
Visually the film was stunning. But on an emotional and intellectual level I'm disappointed. So watch it, or don't. Rewatch it or don't. While I didn't find the film stimulating I did find it entertaining. So what have you.