There are some other problems with the movie, but... the music is nice. If you ignore when Let It Go gets sung. But it\'s Disney, they tend to make some pretty neat music in their movies.
Am I the only onw who thinks Let It Go is a legitimately good song?
Please explain how the world building is bad and why Elsa\'s powers should be explained.
^ No your not. A good majority of people feel that way. Those who don\'t like are either a Vocal Minority of people who have watched the movie or people who haven\'t watched the movie but are annoyed by it\'s omnipresence.
@Nazo: It\'s a nice song, but I felt it was bad in context of the movie. Elsa was running away, after her magic pretty much exploded in front of everyone and she doomed Arendele to eternal winter. I know, she didn\'t know she had caused that, but she still ran off without explaining anything. And for someone who was so intent on keeping her little sister safe from her powers, I expected her to at least haphazardly try to explain that, well, she had power and, see, sometimes... no control... and stuff. But no. She mostly just stares at everyone and runs off. Oh, also, she leaves Arendele with no reign. She gives up all her responsibility. Which goes against her character.
Also, the whole Hans thing? Was pretty stupid. And pointless. Just a quick way to remove any Love Triangle popping up.
No one\'s commenting on how the review suddenly gets cut off mid-sentence (\"Elsa\'s powers are never explained beyond \")? I\'d assumed that it was a mistake by the reviewer until it happened with my recent Fairy Tail review. Am I the only one who sees the reviews cut off midway through, or is it happening to other people?
^I\'ve noticed it before. I\'m pretty sure it\'s a glitch that has something to do with the recent site redesign. Hopefully, it\'ll be fixed soon.
Robotnik,
I see.I\'ve also noticed that when you put apostrophes, somehow, a backslash ends up immediately to the apostrophe\'s left.
Furthermore, I\'ve noticed another glitch in which, when I try to update one of my liveblogs, it sends me to an entirely blank page for the \"Preview.\" I hope that one also gets fixed, since it\'s preventing me from updating.
Honestly, I\'ve found older animated films to have superior animation to Frozen. I wouldn\'t even describe the animation as a whole as pretty, just the backgrounds. Still, it\'s a shame we didn\'t get to see more of Arendelle before it became a frozen wasteland.
\"Let it Go\" is pretty much a metaphor for people who have been told to hide themselves or their anxiety or issues for fear of being different. It\'s pretty much Else saying \"fine, reject me, I don\'t care, I will start liking myself now\" as at the time, she had no idea that Anna was in danger or that she\'d doomed her whole kingdom.
Unfortunately, as you pointed out, it doesn\'t really fit because Elsa\'s fears of her own power are kind of glossed over and over again. And her acceptance of herself and her power lasts all of ten minutes before Anna tells her the kingdom is doomed and Elsa\'s response isn\'t to try and fix the problem, but to kick Anna and Kristoph out.
May or may not have been raised by egregious Brazilian wolves.
So now we finally get to see this review. Unfortunately, verything after \"underwhelmed\" is a large wall of text that needs to be split into paragraphs. I\'m not sure if it was always this way or the site made it that way, but it should be easy enough to change
It might have been nice to show what was happening to the kingdom, but he was cut due to the first act having too much in it. His existence and role would have been best shown with a bit of narrative exposition, which is easier to do in a book than a movie. As for Elsa\'s powers, I think keeping them as relatively mysterious helped, and since no one, not even Elsa, truly knows what they are or how to control them, Elsa becomes more afraid of them and more desperate to keep them in check.
Anna was fairly realistically depicted in that her awkwardness often comes across as cute and funny, but she\'s also shown to be dangerously naive at times. Those are noticeable flaws, but they are counterbalanced by her kindness, determination and love for her sister, making her a nicely rounded character.
It\'s unfair to describe Elsa as too easily forgiven. The point of the movie is that many of the characters\' actions, misguided though they may be at times, are done with the best of intentions. Anna understands that Elsa was trying to protect her, and simply tries to do what she can to bring Elsa back. I get the feeling that you didn\'t like Elsa very much, which isn\'t a bad thing in and of itself, but it seems as though you\'re interpreting her actions in the worst light possible.
There\'s no need to spoil the Hans plot twist in a review, since it should be for the benefit of those who have not seen it yet. As for Hans himself, he\'s much more closely tied to Anna\'s character arc than Elsa\'s (since he merely sees Elsa as an obstacle to be disposed of in one way or another), so he doesn\'t exist just to make Elsa look better. Furthermore, when a character decides to kill two young women to take a throne for selfish reasons, Designated Villain no longer applies.
At the end of the movie, Anna\'s clearly just starting to see Kristoff, so she isn\'t marrying a man she\'s just met. Perhaps they\'ve both admitted that they love each other, but they aren\'t engaged, nor are they even considering it.
I\'ll agree that the trolls are the weakest part of the movie, particularly the bad timing, but Olaf\'s song was fairly short and a good way of establishing his character.
In conclusion, I\'ll reiterate something similar to what I said about your views on Elsa- it\'s fine if you don\'t like the movie, but I can\'t help but feel as though you arrived at your conclusion by oversimplifying things and making assumptions.
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Well...at least the animation is pretty....
I'll be really honest: I didn't see Frozen until May 2014 when it was out of theaters, and I watched it On Demand. And honestly, after hearing all the hype about it, seeing the movie... I was very underwhelmed.
The world-building in this movie is not well-done at all. Elsa's powers are never explained beyond the fact that she was born with them. Yeah, that's it. There is no background, nothing about how common being born with ice powers is in this world, nothing about how people with ice powers are viewed, nothing at all. For that matter, we are given little information about the rock trolls, either, beyond the fact that they can erase memories (which makes their “adoption” of Kristoff even creepier). Even how the kingdom was run could have been explained better (such as who was in charge of the kingdom before Elsa came of age, and how Anna was could leave a stranger in charge of it in her absence). I didn’t care for the characters at all, either. Anna was not very interesting; she seems like just a stock “awkward” girl, and not much else to her than that. Even making her angrier with her sister for shutting her out all those years might have given her more depth (and fixed some of this movie’s morality problems; more on that later). Elsa, despite her Ear Worm of a power anthem, is an ultimately weak and barely realized character, not to mention that she seems far too easily forgiven for her actions at the end. Hans was a character with the potential to be interesting and even somewhat complex, but who was ultimately screwed over by being shoehorned into a Designated Villain role (which, given everything Elsa had done up to that point, seemed just like an Anvilicious attempt to put sympathy back on her). Olaf was completely pointless, and Kristoff was just a second love interest, and not a very good one, considering his condescension toward Anna. And actually, his presence raises another question; if this movie was trying to avoid the "marrying a man you just met"’ cliché, why give Anna a second love interest at all? Hans could have just not been shoehorned into the villain role, and Anna could have had a female traveling companion (perhaps the robber girl, an actual character from The Snow Queen), and the plot could have stayed relatively the same, minus the infamous ‘Fixer Upper’ song, which brings me to… There were far too many pointless songs in this movie. In a musical, songs are meant to move the story along, and most Disney musicals seem to do that fairly well. While I didn’t personally care for the songs in this movie, most of them do move the story, but Olaf’s summer song and ‘Fixer Upper’ do little but stop the movie for 2-3 minutes (not to mention that the latter song happens as the main character is dying; not the best time). The animation was nice and colorful, but that’s far from saving this movie. I know this movie has tons of fans, but I’m just not one of them.