There’s a difference between “Unexpected” (that’s what most twists are supposed to be), and just flat out giving us no indicators this was going to happen, and in fact going the opposite direct and having things happen that make no sense later (for example, he continues to give a love struck smile after Anna leaves and he no longer has to act).
There’s this random kid with this random reindeer following these random ice cutters who then gets grabbed by magic trolls. Why does neither he nor anyone else care that the trolls effectively kidnapped him? You’d think he’d kind of be bothered by never seeing his parents again. Is he an orphan? Why’s he following these ice guys around then? Where’d he get the clothes, carrots, and sled then? Hell, where’d he get the reindeer? And either way, how’d these rocks even take care of him? There’s a distinct lack of safe shelter and food around that place. And why’s he hate people? There doesn’t seem to be any indication the rocks hate people, and he shows a distinct lack of disgust throughout the prologue.
Okay, I tried to sort of move on, but it’s bugging at me; the comparisons to Harry Potter, The Incredibles, and other series with powered characters do not work because in those worlds we know being born with powers happens often. We see dozens of people in-universe who also have powers. Their worlds are based around the idea that powers are a regular thing. Frozen doesn’t have that; it is ONLY Elsa, and every one clearly acts like powers aren’t a regular thing. The whole plot revolves around people not being used to people having powers.
A more accurate comparison would be if Ratatouille had Linguini speaking with Remy, with the only reason why being an offhanded mention that Linguini was “born with” the ability to talk to animals.
That depends on who you’re talking to, and what exactly you’d consider a big deal. There are genuine good points out there, and there are really stupid points out there. And some have good complaints they just push to disproportionate levels.
Here’s a couple of the more levelheaded things talking about the flaws from people who didn’t like it I could find;
I really want to see it. The Cinderella movie looks kind of interesting, but I’m thinking of waiting a little bit to see if it’s released anywhere else, like on Youtube or a different DVD edition of Frozen.
But I’m not sure it’s worth paying for the ticket to LiveAction Cinderella to do so.
I don’t really like LA adaptions as the failure rate is high.
Also, I’m not a Cinderella fan, so the movie would hold very little interest for me.
I hope they put the movie up somewhere else (legally!) so I can see it.
But as they never did this with Tangled Ever After, I doubt they’ll do it with Frozen Fever.
I am a bit confused about how Elsa can catch a cold, given her biological immunity to low temperatures, it should be impossible for her to catch this illness. Or most illnesses in fact, as her superhuman biology would make her hard to infect with any bacterium or virus,
Buckmana: that concept intrigues me as well. I guess we’ll have to see. Funny how she sings “The cold never bothered me anyway”, but in Frozen Fever however, [spoil]it’s a cold that acts as an obstacle in the short.[/spoil]
I finally managed to watch “Frozen” today and loved it for the most part.
Plot-wise it was not quite as strong as “Tangled”, but the songs were great and I think Disney has found another splendid composer with Christophe Beck (but they still need to hire Daniel Ingram some day… )
Big bonus points for “baby Sven” - we’re talking MLP-levels of cuteness here…
