Frozen
I... don't like this movie... I like the first half, but not the second. I should like this movie. The animation is technically impressive and most of the songs were pretty good if you don't pay attention to their purposes in the narrative. I'm willing to summarize more than I should, but really... oh screw it, let's just start.
If you saw Frozen you probably know where I'm coming from when I say the point it stopped being interesting was when Olaf showed up. After the film's 1st act, Olaf, the comic relief of the film, shows his face. He seems to be a character similar to Jar-Jar Binks. I'm gonna be honest, I actually kinda like Jar-Jar Binks, because I like the fact that he's a walking Rube Goldberg Machine. The reason everybody but me hated Jar-Jar Binks is because he is designed to appeal to children, which is something that doesn't work in Star Wars (and yes, I do remember the Ewoks, but the Ewoks were taken seriously despite how goofy the idea of them was).
The point is: Olaf is Jar-Jar Binks. I wouldn't mind so much that Olaf was Disney's way of marketing this film if he was the focus of the story. That would have been fun! Olaf could have gone on the hero's journey and faced the problems a living snowman would face. It could have been artsy with little dialogue like WALL-E. It could have been a nice slapstick romp through an enchanted forest with a slight ecological message. I want to see that movie!
The other movie I want to see is the movie where there the first act of Frozen is the same but the rest of the story takes itself seriously. I think Frozen should have been a PG-13 movie, and it would have worked much better from a story standpoint if they tried to write it with less kid humor and a less stupid climax.
One of the morals this movie forces on its audience is "get to know a guy before you commit to something as serious as marriage." This is in no way a bad moral, but it is hypocritical because the love interest Anna goes for is the other guy she basically just met. There isn't any grounding for... oh, spoilers by the way... there isn't any grounding for the prince's sudden change of allegiance. Overall, I just thought the climax of the movie was stupendously weak and I thought it didn't present anything interesting to the narrative. The fact that I didn't predict what was going to happen makes it sound like a good sequence of events, but what I was predicting was going to happen was Elsa would end up with the prince guy, Anna would get heat powers to counteract the cold powers, and the reindeer guy would stay with Anna with some implication they liked each other, but no kiss or anything.
What actually happened was really stupid! Having Anna end up with the reindeer guy was hypocritical to one of the movies morals, and Elsa being able to REMOVE THE ICE WAS A STUPID MOVE.
This just should've been two movies. With a bit of tweaking here and there the story of a princess traveling to save her kingdom from her socially deprived sister could have been something really engaging to me, and I already said where I wanted to see Olaf.
Overall, there just isn't much to say about Frozen plot wise. It was good until the second act and then I started to question the choices they were making way to often. It was mediocre, average... at par, not bad, far from it, but not very good either. That's what I have to say about it.
6/10
If you saw Frozen you probably know where I'm coming from when I say the point it stopped being interesting was when Olaf showed up. After the film's 1st act, Olaf, the comic relief of the film, shows his face. He seems to be a character similar to Jar-Jar Binks. I'm gonna be honest, I actually kinda like Jar-Jar Binks, because I like the fact that he's a walking Rube Goldberg Machine. The reason everybody but me hated Jar-Jar Binks is because he is designed to appeal to children, which is something that doesn't work in Star Wars (and yes, I do remember the Ewoks, but the Ewoks were taken seriously despite how goofy the idea of them was).
The point is: Olaf is Jar-Jar Binks. I wouldn't mind so much that Olaf was Disney's way of marketing this film if he was the focus of the story. That would have been fun! Olaf could have gone on the hero's journey and faced the problems a living snowman would face. It could have been artsy with little dialogue like WALL-E. It could have been a nice slapstick romp through an enchanted forest with a slight ecological message. I want to see that movie!
The other movie I want to see is the movie where there the first act of Frozen is the same but the rest of the story takes itself seriously. I think Frozen should have been a PG-13 movie, and it would have worked much better from a story standpoint if they tried to write it with less kid humor and a less stupid climax.
One of the morals this movie forces on its audience is "get to know a guy before you commit to something as serious as marriage." This is in no way a bad moral, but it is hypocritical because the love interest Anna goes for is the other guy she basically just met. There isn't any grounding for... oh, spoilers by the way... there isn't any grounding for the prince's sudden change of allegiance. Overall, I just thought the climax of the movie was stupendously weak and I thought it didn't present anything interesting to the narrative. The fact that I didn't predict what was going to happen makes it sound like a good sequence of events, but what I was predicting was going to happen was Elsa would end up with the prince guy, Anna would get heat powers to counteract the cold powers, and the reindeer guy would stay with Anna with some implication they liked each other, but no kiss or anything.
What actually happened was really stupid! Having Anna end up with the reindeer guy was hypocritical to one of the movies morals, and Elsa being able to REMOVE THE ICE WAS A STUPID MOVE.
This just should've been two movies. With a bit of tweaking here and there the story of a princess traveling to save her kingdom from her socially deprived sister could have been something really engaging to me, and I already said where I wanted to see Olaf.
Overall, there just isn't much to say about Frozen plot wise. It was good until the second act and then I started to question the choices they were making way to often. It was mediocre, average... at par, not bad, far from it, but not very good either. That's what I have to say about it.
6/10
UPDATE:
HOW THE FLYING FRACK DID THIS FILM WIN AN OSCAR!
And this movie beat The Wind Rises. How the, who the, what the hell in the world happened?
I don't mind that Let it Go won best original song, but how did FROZEN beat The fluffy Wind Rises?
And this movie beat The Wind Rises. How the, who the, what the hell in the world happened?
I don't mind that Let it Go won best original song, but how did FROZEN beat The fluffy Wind Rises?