What's so great about FROZEN? [shpoilersh!]
I mean, Disney can and have done a lot better. I guess kids like it, because they'd lap up anything where they've been saturated with merchandise for it for the past year or so, but I just wasn't thrilled. It tries to be clever, but in the way a four-year-old might try to mis-direct an adult; i.e. painfully obvious and poorly.
So it's got a song that starts well, but they can't be @rsed to actually even sing the last line of the chorus; it's just spoken. Who wrote that, Shatner?
So it has two princesses, and a subtext that'll make a whole lot more sense when half the audience hit their tweens, and the snowman is cleverly done (with his song about looking forward to summer) but everything else is just dumb and rushed.
"You're getting married to a guy you just met? That's crazy!" "Well, I am only doing it 'cos it's a Disney film and they just put us through a fall-in-love-in-2m30s-musical-montage. Cheap shot on your part; it's not like I really had a choice in the matter."
"My sister's cast a spell of eternal winter!" - what, like, at most, four hours ago? You saw it happen, then went after her (on a horse, mind you, whilst she was on foot). Don't you think 'eternal' is a little premature? At least give it 'til the morning...
"Here's some blankets and there's hot soup in the castle." "Well, duh, we do know what winter is. In case you hadn't noticed, everyone in the ruddy film is already dressed for a bit of a chill. And I've got a reindeer fur coat at home just like the guys you saw cutting ice at the start, you know..."
"And here's a new sledge for you - with a cup holder - because I'm rich, though technically since I'm from the royal household it's your taxes paying for it, and since we've now got a queen who can p*ss liquid nitrogen, your ice-cutting business is pretty much f****d anyway".
So, show it to kids who haven't seen much else. Don't make a big deal out of it. If you must get a sing-along, get Lion King or Jungle Book. Or at the very least the spoof farting song version...
So it's got a song that starts well, but they can't be @rsed to actually even sing the last line of the chorus; it's just spoken. Who wrote that, Shatner?
So it has two princesses, and a subtext that'll make a whole lot more sense when half the audience hit their tweens, and the snowman is cleverly done (with his song about looking forward to summer) but everything else is just dumb and rushed.
"You're getting married to a guy you just met? That's crazy!" "Well, I am only doing it 'cos it's a Disney film and they just put us through a fall-in-love-in-2m30s-musical-montage. Cheap shot on your part; it's not like I really had a choice in the matter."
"My sister's cast a spell of eternal winter!" - what, like, at most, four hours ago? You saw it happen, then went after her (on a horse, mind you, whilst she was on foot). Don't you think 'eternal' is a little premature? At least give it 'til the morning...
"Here's some blankets and there's hot soup in the castle." "Well, duh, we do know what winter is. In case you hadn't noticed, everyone in the ruddy film is already dressed for a bit of a chill. And I've got a reindeer fur coat at home just like the guys you saw cutting ice at the start, you know..."
"And here's a new sledge for you - with a cup holder - because I'm rich, though technically since I'm from the royal household it's your taxes paying for it, and since we've now got a queen who can p*ss liquid nitrogen, your ice-cutting business is pretty much f****d anyway".
So, show it to kids who haven't seen much else. Don't make a big deal out of it. If you must get a sing-along, get Lion King or Jungle Book. Or at the very least the spoof farting song version...
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That said, my wife and daughter much preferred Frozen.
Maybe it's a 'girl thing' ?
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Tron, Tron Legacy, Black Hole, and DragonSlayer.
And that's it. All else is ****e. ;)
Fixed that for you. ;-)
Nope. It's never appealed to me either.
I didn't think Tron Legacy was all that great either, to be honest...
As for Frozen, well, what would you expect? Disney animation these days is just a formulaic money making machine. Then again when Walt had pretty much done it all by the 1940s why bother trying anything new?
Naah, he got other people to do the drawing for him. He was far too busy planning world domination to do much himself.
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And killing lemmings.
And its pronounced Arna even though its spelt Anna a lot of people who haven't seen the film get that wrong which can be quite annoying.
Oh and the best song by far is the troll song especially the line about his acts of bestiality towards the reindeer.
Now The LEGO Movie, Wall-E, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, I could understand that level of interest. But Frozen? I just don't get it. Still, I hear it can get a bit chilly in THE NORTH. Maybe it's a regional thing... :D
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I really liked it. :)
The best modern movie post 1980 me thinks.
Oi, DragonSlayer is great... especially the REAL dragon. Amazing stuff.
It's just the soundtrack that totally stinks. I keep meaning to try and replace it.
[strike]OK so as Pixar films goes Tangled isn't the best, it seemed like the most conventionally "Disney" of their films so far to me - although I still enjoyed it enough to watch it a couple of times.[/strike] (edit: scratch that - I was thinking of Brave!)
But seriously though... you've never seen Wall-E? What about Toy Story 3 or Up? Puss In Boots, or the brilliant Rango? Even the last Madagascar I thought was pretty good if a bit predictable.
Seriously, if you find Toy Story 3 boring then you are Shania Twain and I claim my five pounds :-P
I have learning difficulties. Hope you feel bad now. Plus im an orphan raised by the state and i was born in August and I have got a addiction poor eyesight and hayfever.
Tangled isn't a Pixar film. It was made by Disney themselves. I still think it is good though. Better than Frozen (also a Disney production). I have seen them both and cannot understand the hysteria over Frozen.
Only Disney films I like are the Toy Story ones, but they're really the work of Pixar.
We went to the cinema to see if for the kids. It's the closest I've ever come to falling asleep in the cinema. I came out thinking I'd just spent rather a large amount of money on a thoroughly average film.
My wife and kids like it "enthusiastically". With repeat viewings, I'm still pretty much unmoved by the whole thing. The only thing I find moderately amusing is the fact that they seem to cheerfully overlook the fact that the male hero appears to be a thundering nut-job.
The last film I remember watching where the male lead lends his voice to something that can't talk was "Psycho" - it didn't end too well for pretty much any of the characters in that film, so I live in hope (steady on! Ed)
Toodle-pip!
Gerard
Do yoooooou wanna build a snooooowmaaaaaan?!
Heh heh.
My kids have watched it and love it. Admittedly, the music drove (and still does) me nuts. Not a day goes pass without someone in my household singing one of the songs.
As for the film... not the best I've seen. Like everyone else said; been a hit with kids.
However, on a contradictory note; I'm addicted to the Android Frozen game though (other half's fault lol).
Surely I am not the only one who wants to know more about this Spoof Farting Song ?