Originally
I was supposed to do a review of Frozen 2 but decided to put it off for a few
days so I can do a review of the first film just so I can compare them. So
please bare with me as I give my two cents on this movie before we dive into
Frozen 2.
Frozen (2013) tells the story of princess Anna who sets off
on a journey alongside a rugged iceman, his loyal reindeer, and a naive snowman to find her
estranged sister Elsa, whose icy powers have inadvertently trapped their
kingdom in eternal winter.
As
a story Frozen two is pretty decent even if it took such liberty from the
original source material it was originally based. For one the supposed evil ice
Queen is no longer evil and a lot of other things. Also being a musical fantasy
the number of songs can be a bit too overwhelming. Disney has been known to put
songs in their films but Frozen has a bit too much of that I think. Thankfully nearly
all of the songs are surprisingly catchy.
Frozen
(2013) plot twist villain at the end of the film did catch me off guard which
is a good thing. And I like how Disney finally took their usual story formula
for a loop and thinking out of the box for once. Sadly as villains go this one
is probably the least impressive and underused antagonist in Walt Disneys
history of villains. Gaston or Scar from the Lion King was more of a menace. They
could have gave said antagonist some magical powers or something to make the
bad guy more of an actual threat.
The
animation was pretty decent specially during the third act specially when there
is lots of ice and snow involved which is pretty abundant in the film
thankfully. I wished some scenes was a bit longer and some scenes were
shortened in some areas but I'm guessing the one hour and thirty minutes of the
film was long enough already.
The
movie is far from perfect as story also have some pacing issues and there are
some drop in animation quality in some scenes but overall the film is pretty
entertaining. Some of the jokes didn't land for me as much as I'd like. Some scenes in the third act was confusing. I mean frozen objects breaks when hit by a hard object...like say a very sharp sword. The
movie Terminator 2 showed as much. The same sword that mind you cut a giant ice thing a few scenes earlier which is at least ten times bigger.
Still overall
Frozen (2013) was surprisingly good despite its obvious flaws. The songs are catchy the animation is
pretty and I think a lot of folks should watch this film at least once if they
haven't watched it already. But who am I kidding there's probably very few
people on the planet who hasn't seen this film by now. It's a good film to watch if you want to be entertained and have a good laugh or two.
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