Dire wrote:
The concise reasons are they had really good pacing at first, got right into the story. But the the ending came about too quickly. Probably because they used up all their music in the first part of the film.
The long reason I don't like it:
There's the opening song which is really just there as opening credits with the ice guys getting their ice. Fair enough. Opening credits don't count.
So moving on, the next song is the montage for 'do you want to build a snowman'. I liked that song and did what it needed to do to convey Anna's loneliness and carry us through to present day.
Then next song is pretty much immediately after about coronation day. Yeah okay. That song is about Anna's excitement and Elsa's trepidation. I can see those things being worth singing about.
But before the night's over we have another song, 'Love is an open door'I guess you would call it the 'date montage' song. Because that's exactly what it is.
Then Elsa runs away and we get another song, 'Let it go' Good song, important turning point for the story. Important moment for the character.
I guess that's the first half of the movie? But I can't really say that it feels like we're in the middle of a journey at this point. Arendelle only just got frozen, Elsa only just ran away and Anna hasn't even met the other protagonists yet.
So moving on Anna begins her quests. She finds Kristoff, then Olaf , then Elsa. Then gets sent packing by Elsa, then goes back home where surprise, surprise, the villain finally reveals themselves and I guess the last intense moments of the movie happen, ie the climax.
There are only two songs carrying us through this part, Olaf's unnecessary song about summer (didn't move the plot) and the Trolls song about how Anna should date their boy Kris (which also added nothing and in fact diminished the seriousness of her condition).
So I feel that they had some excellent stuff going on, but botched the pacing in the end because they didn't write much of a middle (the internal/external conflict).
You might ask, what they could have done to fill the middle? Well I would have liked to have seen them develop on Elsa's neurosis' a bit more along with Anna's desperation to be with people. I guess showing the differences between them that they had to overcome, like learning to understand and love each other again type stuff. Elsa's own battle with depression and anxiety was super interesting, and I think it would have been nice if even after everything was back to being normal that she still needed to take baby steps when being surrounded by people (since invisible illnesses of that sort aren't cured overnight in reality)
It was practically the climax where they said in words that Anna was desperate for love and she thought she found it in her prince charming when all along the most important love of her life was her sister. That would have been something really specially to see in a Disney movie with princesses, a movie where the girl's worth isn't defined by getting a boy. I mean, it was the climax of the movie, it really would have been nice for more build up as a plot point. I think they could have gone into more depth and really made the movie special that way.
I also felt the villain showed up too late and had so little impact he may as well have not been there. He was bodaciously a deus ex machina. They could have had faceless mobs go after Elsa for the same impact. In fact it would have been a more interesting movie, sans villain where the only issue to overcome is the differences between an extrovert and an introvert. And the whole thing with Hans could have gone down like 'Sorry, my sister comes first, and she's not ready for a brother in law.' or something! Or maybe we save song space and Hans was never there. Either way, as far as villains go. This one fails.
All in all, it's not a bad movie. It's just not all that.
You know what? I can actually understand your points here. I've never really been one to notice when a movie's "pacing" or whatever isn't great, unless it's REALLY bad, but now that you mention it, I see what you mean. While I don't agree on WHICH songs were unnecessary, I do concede that some of the songs were kind of unnecessary. For example, I actually really liked Fixer Upper. It's a fun song, and I actually do think it has some relevance to the story in terms of theming. Listen to the song again, but this time replace Kristoff with Elsa and lines about romantic love with lines about sisterly love. On the other hand, Love is an Open Door and Olaf's song weren't that great. Although, to those songs' credit, both of them had lines in them that made me laugh, so neither of them felt like a complete waste of my time. I also agree that we should have seen more Elsa, because she was a fantastic character(easily the strongest and most developed in the movie), and also that the villain was WEEEEEAAAAAAAAAK.
Both of them were, actually. They were revealed so late that they didn't get the chance to really DO anything, and this is a Disney movie! They're good at making compelling villains! That was my biggest complaint about the movie, and I completely agree that they should have just been left out entirely, at least as a villain.
Nice surprise reveal though, that was pretty tragic how Hans revealed his true demeanor. What a buttface.I'll always defend Frozen as a great movie, but I definitely understand why some people didn't like it as much as I do or even didn't like it at all. For me, when this movie did things right, it did them REALLY right, and it hit a lot of sweet spots for me that made me get really invested in the story. THERE IS LEGIT THEMING AND METAPHORS IN THIS DISNEY MOVIE WHAT. THAT'S REALLY COOL TO ME. NO PUN INTENDED. What I really liked most about it is that despite being almost 21 years old and having seen enough movies that I could tell, for the most part, where the plot was going, I didn't care. I was just along for the ride, and I wasn't disappointed. At the end, when
Anna is completely frozen(those puns tho) and Elsa is freaking draped over her sister crying, I knew everything would be OK because Disney, but I still got really teary about that scene. Maybe this movie just reminds me of my own younger sister, and the great relationship I have with her, and that's why it resonates so much with me.
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