#31: Frozen (2013)

Disclaimer: I dislike 3/5 of the current Disney Princess movies that are in the official line up.

• "Brave" is a missed opportunity.
• "The Princess and The Frog" is an insult.
• "Moana" kind of has the same issues as "Frozen" regarding the screenplay but it's a lot more tolerable because it doesn't drag.
• "Tangled" is the best. 

This one?

Took America by storm in 2013 because there were two nearly identical white woman models singing songs. Man, these people would not hear a word against this movie. Say "I don't really care because it's a bunch of same-faced white people", and you would be considered the devil.

 I was impressed with the ideas, not the story outline, execution, screenplay or pacing way back in 2013. I am genuinely interested in the sequel later this month, so I decided to put my biases aside and try again.

Screenplay composition is still poor for the first 3/4ths. Everything feels like pieces, not a coherent story. Right after Elsa sends Marshmallow after Anna and Kristoff, it yells at them to stay away. Then it cuts back to Elsa losing control. That's not coherent or flowing, it's strange.

Also; They put 90% of the songs in the first 45 minutes. That's terrible.

Frozen Heart, For The First Time In Forever, and In Summer are still the best. Fixer Upper is obnoxious. I have no opinion on Let It Go and would rather listen to Into The Unknown.

The actual cinematography is surprisingly good.  It moves throughout the setting and characters and there's a lot of lighting play in time with songs.

Tangled precedes this by 3 years and still looks so much better on the human model scale. Maybe it's from the warmness of the lighting. And the 2 female characters didn't look like palette swaps.

I won't shit on the weather visuals, however. That and the ice physics are still really nice.

I don't dislike either lead! Because the movie only skims the top, you don't see a lot of it, but you can tell that Anna and Elsa are the two most emotionally fucked up Disney Princesses.

(After Pocahontas. Having your story bastardized will do that to you. We can put Tiana here on an honorary mention for simply living in the Deep South as a Black Woman in the Roaring 20s. )

Hey, remember back before everyone hated CinemaSins, how they lampshaded how bad this whole Hans ~twist was?

"Instead, this movie is so focused on pulling the rug out from under us that it loses common sense." 

There are no less than 2 fake outs pulled in the last 20 minutes. Maybe it's just me who is quite annoyed with Disney trying so hard to subvert and lampshade in these modern Canon movies. It doesn't make up for a lack of ideas or a satisfying conclusion.

"Frozen" has good qualities, but it's certainly not in the composition of the film from a narrative standpoint.