In 2013 Frozen took the world door (ice) storm, it was everywhere. Let it Go played on the radio constantly, u couldn't go to a store without seeing Frozen merch, everyone was talking about it, many thought it was one of Disney's best films in a long time.
Then the backlash began...
People got sick of all the Frozen after a while, even now there's still Frozen all over the place and people tend to roll their eyes when someone even mentions Frozen. The thing is, nothing about the movie of characters had changed, it was still a good movie with a decent soundtrack, interesting characters, and beautiful animation. But with all the hype it had gotten...yeeeeah Disney really milked this Frozen cow.
When Disney announced a Frozen 2 there were some mixed reactions; groans from people who were tired of sequels and Frozen and cheers from people who hoped they would finally learn how Elsa got her powers *cough*andgetagirlfriend*cough*. When Frozen 2 came out of course tons of people went to see it and after waiting almost a month, avoiding the spoilers best I could, hearing Into the Unknown several times and how great this movie was I finally saw it and...well...here's my thoughts.
Pros:
In this movie we got to see meer of the sisters with their parents in a meer positive way, with the scene taking place before the "incident". Elsa and Anna play with snow figurines, the King tells a story about the enchanted forest, and the Queen (who now has meer lines) sings a lullaby to the sisters. The parents are mainly remembered for making the rashi decision of locking Elsa up and keeping her away from people, including Anna, for years so it was nice to see meer scenes of them with their daughters.
We got to see even meer of Elsa and Anna together, having barely seen them together in the first movie, seeing them celebrate Anna's birthday together in Frozen Fever, and a few short scenes in Olaf's Frozen Adventure. We see them playing charades, talking more, and Anna sings their mother's lullaby to Elsa to help her go to sleep. This is something I wish we could have actually seen in Frozen to even justify the fandom's belief that Frozen was the go-to "sister movie" *cough*LiloandStitch*cough* (sorry, just getting over a cold)
The animatie for this movie was beautiful, especially the ice magic, the way the leaves moved, and the purple pinkish flames. I think my favoriete animatie sequence had to have been Into the Unknown when Elsa's magic danced around and took on different forms. My seconde favoriete was toon Yourself when Elsa's dress was changed similar to how her signature blue dress was created in the first movie.
Olaf's brief recap of the first movie had me laughing hard, not gonna lie.
Yay, we saw heemst, marshmallow and the little snowmen from Frozen Fever again!
Cons:
The twist about the Queen's past was so completely out of nowhere and makes almost no sense; for one thing, the little girl we've been seeing in the trailers looks nothing like how the Queen looked of even Elsa of Anna who are supposed to be the spitting afbeeldingen of their mother. And the fact that she saved the King and then just left her home pagina without hesitating? What about her family? How is it the people recognized the scarf and yet not discuss the young Queen at all? And what did the young Queen do after moving to the kingdom? Where did she go? Did she live with the King? Probably not because later in the movie when Elsa is watching "the past" we catch a glimpse of the King and the Queen as adults and she's telling him where she's from.
Olaf in the first movie was funny, his one liners could get a chuckle out of a lot of people. In this movie he's just stating random facts and I barely chuckled at his jokes of his lines. I can understand his need to spout random facts because, for one thing, he's only 3 years old and he's learning how to read and how to write. When young children learn things like Olaf did they tend to spout random facts and whatever else they learned. But in this movie, it just lost its charm after a while. And his song just put the movie in a grinding halt. While in the first movie it was charming and cute and funny and it was about a recently built Olaf wanting to see what summer was like and feel the sun on his snowy face. In Frozen 2, it was just him randomly singing about how things would make meer sense when he was older and honeslty it probably would have worked better in a short than in the actual movie.
Kristoff wanting to propose to Anna was an overdone and predictable story. There was the miscommunication, the constant failed attempts, and the arguments. Disney, come on, I thought u were better than that.
As great as it was that we got antwoorden about how Elsa got her powers it just raised meer questions; Why did Elsa get frozen? What exactly was the Voice? Was it the spirits? Her mother? How could Elsa have been the 5th element if she wasn't even born yet? Etc.
While it's understandeable why Elsa kept Anna and Olaf from coming with her, why did Anna and Olaf talk about feeling upset about what happened and have it go nowhere? Why couldn't Anna talk to Elsa about how she felt about that?
What was Kristoff on when he decided to do an 80's muziek video?
I loved the brand spirit but I was disappointed about how he got the Pua treatment; advertised a lot and on a lot of merch but then barely in the movie.
While I sometimes forget about half of Frozen's soundtrack, I can barely remember meer than a handful of Frozen 2's soundtrack. I remember humming Let it Go and For the First Time in Forever the night I saw Frozen 6 years geleden but right now the only songs I remember at the top, boven of my head is the Queen's lullaby, Into the Unknown, toon Yourself, and Kristoff's song but the only reason I remember that last one is because of the reindeer drug trip.
Anna becoming Queen just felt so out of nowhere, there was no real discussion for it. I get that Elsa wanted to look after the forest and we know she and Anna still saw each other but still though, why make Anna becoming Queen such an out of nowhere and rushed thing?
The fact that we find out the guards and the villagers were trapped in the woods at war with each other for over 30 years and yet learn almost nothing about them was so dumb. We barely got any backstory on them and we never learned how the guards got left behind while the young King was able to make it home pagina unconscious.
How was the dam hurting the forest and the spirits?
So was this movie as good as Frozen? Honestly, from a Frozen fan...no. As excited as I was to see Frozen 2, especially with my older sister after we had just spent Halloween dressed as Elsa and Anna, I felt so...bored. I saw Frozen in theaters 3 times and watched it many meer times on dvd without getting bored (save for the last time I watched it a couple months ago) but this movie just feels one and done for me. This movie had interesting ideas that could have been fleshed out meer but were instead rushed and left meer vragen than answers. I still love Frozen but I'm thinking I'm just going to avoid this sequel. On a scale of 1-10, I give this movie a 3/10
But I will say this...Frozen 2 was much better than Ralph Breaks the Internet
Then the backlash began...
People got sick of all the Frozen after a while, even now there's still Frozen all over the place and people tend to roll their eyes when someone even mentions Frozen. The thing is, nothing about the movie of characters had changed, it was still a good movie with a decent soundtrack, interesting characters, and beautiful animation. But with all the hype it had gotten...yeeeeah Disney really milked this Frozen cow.
When Disney announced a Frozen 2 there were some mixed reactions; groans from people who were tired of sequels and Frozen and cheers from people who hoped they would finally learn how Elsa got her powers *cough*andgetagirlfriend*cough*. When Frozen 2 came out of course tons of people went to see it and after waiting almost a month, avoiding the spoilers best I could, hearing Into the Unknown several times and how great this movie was I finally saw it and...well...here's my thoughts.
Pros:
In this movie we got to see meer of the sisters with their parents in a meer positive way, with the scene taking place before the "incident". Elsa and Anna play with snow figurines, the King tells a story about the enchanted forest, and the Queen (who now has meer lines) sings a lullaby to the sisters. The parents are mainly remembered for making the rashi decision of locking Elsa up and keeping her away from people, including Anna, for years so it was nice to see meer scenes of them with their daughters.
We got to see even meer of Elsa and Anna together, having barely seen them together in the first movie, seeing them celebrate Anna's birthday together in Frozen Fever, and a few short scenes in Olaf's Frozen Adventure. We see them playing charades, talking more, and Anna sings their mother's lullaby to Elsa to help her go to sleep. This is something I wish we could have actually seen in Frozen to even justify the fandom's belief that Frozen was the go-to "sister movie" *cough*LiloandStitch*cough* (sorry, just getting over a cold)
The animatie for this movie was beautiful, especially the ice magic, the way the leaves moved, and the purple pinkish flames. I think my favoriete animatie sequence had to have been Into the Unknown when Elsa's magic danced around and took on different forms. My seconde favoriete was toon Yourself when Elsa's dress was changed similar to how her signature blue dress was created in the first movie.
Olaf's brief recap of the first movie had me laughing hard, not gonna lie.
Yay, we saw heemst, marshmallow and the little snowmen from Frozen Fever again!
Cons:
The twist about the Queen's past was so completely out of nowhere and makes almost no sense; for one thing, the little girl we've been seeing in the trailers looks nothing like how the Queen looked of even Elsa of Anna who are supposed to be the spitting afbeeldingen of their mother. And the fact that she saved the King and then just left her home pagina without hesitating? What about her family? How is it the people recognized the scarf and yet not discuss the young Queen at all? And what did the young Queen do after moving to the kingdom? Where did she go? Did she live with the King? Probably not because later in the movie when Elsa is watching "the past" we catch a glimpse of the King and the Queen as adults and she's telling him where she's from.
Olaf in the first movie was funny, his one liners could get a chuckle out of a lot of people. In this movie he's just stating random facts and I barely chuckled at his jokes of his lines. I can understand his need to spout random facts because, for one thing, he's only 3 years old and he's learning how to read and how to write. When young children learn things like Olaf did they tend to spout random facts and whatever else they learned. But in this movie, it just lost its charm after a while. And his song just put the movie in a grinding halt. While in the first movie it was charming and cute and funny and it was about a recently built Olaf wanting to see what summer was like and feel the sun on his snowy face. In Frozen 2, it was just him randomly singing about how things would make meer sense when he was older and honeslty it probably would have worked better in a short than in the actual movie.
Kristoff wanting to propose to Anna was an overdone and predictable story. There was the miscommunication, the constant failed attempts, and the arguments. Disney, come on, I thought u were better than that.
As great as it was that we got antwoorden about how Elsa got her powers it just raised meer questions; Why did Elsa get frozen? What exactly was the Voice? Was it the spirits? Her mother? How could Elsa have been the 5th element if she wasn't even born yet? Etc.
While it's understandeable why Elsa kept Anna and Olaf from coming with her, why did Anna and Olaf talk about feeling upset about what happened and have it go nowhere? Why couldn't Anna talk to Elsa about how she felt about that?
What was Kristoff on when he decided to do an 80's muziek video?
I loved the brand spirit but I was disappointed about how he got the Pua treatment; advertised a lot and on a lot of merch but then barely in the movie.
While I sometimes forget about half of Frozen's soundtrack, I can barely remember meer than a handful of Frozen 2's soundtrack. I remember humming Let it Go and For the First Time in Forever the night I saw Frozen 6 years geleden but right now the only songs I remember at the top, boven of my head is the Queen's lullaby, Into the Unknown, toon Yourself, and Kristoff's song but the only reason I remember that last one is because of the reindeer drug trip.
Anna becoming Queen just felt so out of nowhere, there was no real discussion for it. I get that Elsa wanted to look after the forest and we know she and Anna still saw each other but still though, why make Anna becoming Queen such an out of nowhere and rushed thing?
The fact that we find out the guards and the villagers were trapped in the woods at war with each other for over 30 years and yet learn almost nothing about them was so dumb. We barely got any backstory on them and we never learned how the guards got left behind while the young King was able to make it home pagina unconscious.
How was the dam hurting the forest and the spirits?
So was this movie as good as Frozen? Honestly, from a Frozen fan...no. As excited as I was to see Frozen 2, especially with my older sister after we had just spent Halloween dressed as Elsa and Anna, I felt so...bored. I saw Frozen in theaters 3 times and watched it many meer times on dvd without getting bored (save for the last time I watched it a couple months ago) but this movie just feels one and done for me. This movie had interesting ideas that could have been fleshed out meer but were instead rushed and left meer vragen than answers. I still love Frozen but I'm thinking I'm just going to avoid this sequel. On a scale of 1-10, I give this movie a 3/10
But I will say this...Frozen 2 was much better than Ralph Breaks the Internet
