Disney's Frozen

[Jaxom 1974]

Did I miss a topic?

How are we not talking about this more? Had Little Jax's and the Little Lady's first movie experience with this tonight. He was damn near perfect, she was 50/50.

But the movie wad great. I enjoyed the heck out of Tangled, but this was leaps better. Music was great. Animation to notch. Story was really good. I felt like I wad watching a Broadway musical, as odd as that sounds...

I'm actually looking forward to the kids having this on DVD and watching it twenty times in a row.

[Gertrude]

Hmm, this one didn't really grab me. The story was ok, but nothing special and the music wasn't to my taste. Perhaps it was because it was like a broadway musical? I really miss the tunes of Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. The snowman really grated on me too. Whatever it was, I came out of this one pretty disappointed. If I'm comparing it to Tangled, Tangled was tons better.

[Winter's Knight]

I loved the movie and the ending was a nice twist on the usual True Love saves the day. The idea that

Anna saves herself by her own act of true love

was (pardon the pun) cool.

Also liked how Hans/Anna was a subversion of the usual Disney romance.

[maarsen]

H'mm. Here I am, thinking about Walt still in cryogenic suspension in the bowels of Disneyworld.

[Trebla]

I liked it, even with all the singing, Actually, I LOVE that "Let It Go" song. And the animation was amazing. I loved seeing the winter spread, the hoarfrost creep through the castle. I had visions of "The Winds of Winter and "A Dream of Spring".

[Jaxom 1974]

That song had me thinking of Wicked...then I went and saw who was singing and it made sense...

[DivisionByZero]

I really liked this one, too. Completely and totally different than the annoying advertising led me to believe. In fact, I probably would have skipped it if I hadn't seen a few reviews talking about how incredible it was. My kids loved it and I could definitely watch it a few more times.

They did a great job of subverting a couple of standard Disney themes, too.

Anna saving herself with her act of true love was great and I had absolutely no idea that Hans was evil until the very moment he revealed himself. One guy a few rows down let out a shocked "No!" when he did that, it was hilarious. I loved that they didn't throw in all the little hints they usually do when there's a bad guy pretending to be good.

[Jaxom 1974]

I really liked this one, too. Completely and totally different than the annoying advertising led me to believe. In fact, I probably would have skipped it if I hadn't seen a few reviews talking about how incredible it was. My kids loved it and I could definitely watch it a few more times.

They did a great job of subverting a couple of standard Disney themes, too.

Anna saving herself with her act of true love was great and I had absolutely no idea that Hans was evil until the very moment he revealed himself. One guy a few rows down let out a shocked "No!" when he did that, it was hilarious. I loved that they didn't throw in all the little hints they usually do when there's a bad guy pretending to be good.

They had me going too.

Hans really was a surprise. I kept wondering how they were going to work it out. Two guys, one a prince, but there was Anna and also Elsa...it seemed like it was going to be some sort of romantic comedy solution, then he went all evil...really well done...

[GoodGuyA]

This movie had a lot of great things going for it, but I think some odd decisions sort of draw it back from being the Beauty and the Beast esque classic it could have been. The main one, and hence why I thought the movie would be terrible, was the pointless snowman. No meaningful contribution to anything, which is of course a recurring problem in kid's movies. I don't quite understand why he needed to be in when they all ready had Sven, as he ruined a very interesting part of the movie wherein the two main characters are alone and developing.

The songs were pretty cool for the most part, though I didn't like the main song. That first song though... That was so weird. That whole scene seemed so pointless when I thought there was going to be a lot more mythology to it. Thought there was gonna be a lot more Nordicness to everything.

The snow setting was fantastic, the writing hilarious at points, great subversions of standard tropes, though I think the story failed a bit at being interpersonal. A couple of things didn't exactly make sense, and the grand scale sort of squashed over those hopes for something which was more introspective. Very cool movie though ;) Definitely recommend it.

[The Grey Wolf]

I really enjoyed it. The thing that annoyed me was how [and I realized this annoyed only after watching] relatively normal Elsa was for someone locked away for over a decade since she was little. That is unrealistic and considering the suffering that many children go through [losing a parent, friend, sibling, pet, abuse, etc.] I find a tiny bit disrespectful. Also, would it really kill animated movies to show the heroes losing/sacrificing something in order to get their happy ending? Still, I recommend the movie. Did anyone see the post-credits scene?

[Jaxom 1974]

There was a post credit scene?

[The Grey Wolf]

Yeah. Its really short. Basically, the giant frost guardian Elsa creates wanders on-screen, finds Elsa's crown, picks it up, puts it on its head, and smiles.

I was one of the three people who waited to see if there was anything post-credits. When, I saw it I shouted "Hah! I knew there was a post-credits scene!" The other two people were a little girl and her mom on the other side of the room. When the little girl heard me say that she looked at her mom and said "See? He knew too!" Makes me laugh now when I think of it.

[karaddin]

Did you guys get the awful half old style animation cartoon before the movie? Found it combining all the things that I think are terrible about old cartoons and mixing in a bunch of others I didn't know, really put me in the wrong mood to try enjoy the movie.

Overall I didn't mind it, I appreciated the

subversion of the act of love

but that only redeemed it for me rather than elevating it to a classic. Despite a couple of actresses I love in the lead roles, the soundtrack didn't do it for me. I don't think it was a problem with their performance, it was the songs themselves didn't grab me really. Also the opening and closing music seemed African themed like they were going for a Lion King vibe that it failed to deliver (for all my issues with The Lion King the intro to that movie with Circle of Life playing is not one of them - grabs me and gives me chills every time).

Edited because a spoiler is not a quote.

[Jaxom 1974]

Did you guys get the awful half old style animation cartoon before the movie? Found it combining all the things that I think are terrible about old cartoons and mixing in a bunch of others I didn't know, really put me in the wrong mood to try enjoy the movie.

Really? That Mickey Mouse cartoon had me going at first. I thought it was some sort of older cartoon they were just showing. It wasn't brilliant, but it was fun. Apparently it takes on a bit of a new dimesion if you see the 3D version?

[Prince of the North]

We were finally able to have our first whole-family-at-the-theater experience with Frozen. That was nice. Everybody enjoyed it (even me) and we'll most likely get it on dvd so the kids can watch it again from time to time.

[kuroishi]

Really liked it. I was delighted when I found out

that the true love story was the one between the two sisters.[/spoilers]

The whole scene with "Let it Go" gave me goose bumps, and it's apparently a favorite among children (my niece has been watching and rewatching it on youtube ever since she saw the movie).

I don't know if it will remain as a classic, but it's a very enjoyable movie nonetheless.

[May1992]

I LOVED!

But I must say that I was the oldest person in my session without a child as company :dunno:

The movie is great and Anna saving herself was awesome.

[sperry]

I liked it. I didn't have a problem with the Snowman. He added laughs for the kids, without making me want to kill myself like characters like that often do (Jar Jar binks anyone?).

Overall I didn't think the songs were great, although the Let it Go song and scene were amazing.

I also don't get the criticism of Elsa's "normalness". Were they supposed to make her into the antisocial drug addicted mess that someone locked away for 10 years of childhood would probably become?

She was nervous and didn't want contact with the outside world, and fled back to isolation right away. She drove her sister away when she came back. I think it was clear that there were effects from childhood isolation, but why would they turn her into some completely broken human for the sake of "accuracy"?

[Night'sQueen]

We took our daughter and two of her friends to see this when it first came out. I really enjoyed it, but I don't know if I liked it more than Tangled. I liked the snowman, personally. Sure he wasn't necessary, but he was funny.

What stands out for me most about the experience though is the three girls requesting to hear some Imagine Dragons in the car and singing along with Demons and Radioactive. I still crack up when I think of those 8-9 year old girls in the back of the car singing, "I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust...this is it, the apocalypse." It was just so... incongruous.

[karaddin]

Really? That Mickey Mouse cartoon had me going at first. I thought it was some sort of older cartoon they were just showing. It wasn't brilliant, but it was fun. Apparently it takes on a bit of a new dimesion if you see the 3D version?

It hit sexist notes and old school cartoon violence in ways that really irk me. If it was actually old I can deal with it better, but once it was apparent it was newly done it completely pissed me off. That whole sequence with just treating minnie and the horse? donkey? as a sex objects (the latter negatively obviously), then the entire thing minnie is a damsel needing rescuing...Not what I was looking for.