Vincent Kintobor
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- Posted: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:27:43 +0000
Okay. If the the movie "Epic" Taught me anything, is, "You don't know if you'll like it unless you try it" And I thought It would be the same with Frozen......*groan*
Okay let's just get into it.
As the film opens up, we have two little girls, who happen to be Princesses, with a very close relationship. The elder sister has the special power of creating and controlling Ice, of which they use to play game, build snowmen, etc.
During one of their play dates, the younger sister, Ana, takes a headshot with and Ice blast, turning a lock of her hair permanently white. Elena, the older sister, and their parents, take Ana to a tribe of Trolls to heal her. They erase all of Ana's Memories of her sister's powers, and keep them a secret.
Elena must now spend the rest of her Childhood away from her sister, keeping her Powers secret from everyone.
Later, when they are teenagers, their Parents leave on a ship for a few weeks (I assume to trade with another kingdom, but it's never really explained). However, a storm hits and the King and Queen are killed off. (It's a Disney film, go figure)
This opening, I actually really liked, it set things up nicely, and I liked the relationship between Elena and Ana, It was very believable. And When they are forced to be separated, Ana has no Idea why. I think all of us have been there I one point in our life. Be it on the Internet, or real life. We all have family and/or friends that you are very close, but then, out of the blue, with no Idea why, they start avoiding you, and no longer want anything to do with you. And I loved this Opening for exploring that.
Disney has done Sister Relationships before, but not when they were so close to the same age (as far as I remember) And I liked the relationship they built for us.
Finally, Elena becomes of age, and is about to Coordinated into becoming Queen. All with the fear of letting her Ice Powers getting out of hand.
After that brilliant opening, the rest of 1st act......falls kind of flat. They almost hooked me with that opening, but they lost me as soon as Ana meets the Prince. And at this point I realized the movie's biggest Problem. The songs. They're just not that interesting to me. Other then one, I did not like any of the songs. It was during this 1st act, can't remember when, one of the songs I think, I got up out of my chair, and played a short game out in the Lobby before returning. When I came back, Elena's Powers started flash freezing everything.
At this point, The movie started picking up for me. I started enjoying it again. Elena flees to the top of a frozen mountain, and enters a song and dance Number that I actually enjoyed. The melody, the singing, the great visuals, went beautifully together.
This would be good time to mention another thing I like. The Visuals. The things they do with Elena's Ice, was incredible. And it pushed her into favorite Character of the movie for me. She rivals Iceman. (Screwattack Death Battle GO!!!)
Meanwhile, Ana treks up the mountain to try and talk to her sister. Enter Chisdoff An Ice Block sells men with a Reindeer for a best friend. (our Male lead being a little late to the party huh) And after a humorous encounter with a Canadian Lodge owner, set out together up the mountain. Along the way, they encounter a talking snowman named Olaf.
This Character was the major draw for kids. He was in all the trailers, and to be honest, the comic releave that this movie needed. He's alright, and I found the jokes surrounding him pretty funny. Of course, he get's a song number, that, once again is grown worthy, but I found the idea of an ignorant Snowman, who doesn't know how heat will affect him, funny.
Eventually they trio reach to Ice Palace, and this is when the 3rd and best act begins. After an encounter with Elena, puts Ana's life in danger, Chrisdoff takes her to the same Trolls from the opening in an effort to heal her. This leads into another RANDOM a** song number with the Trolls singing about Love. I would have found it better if they skipped the song number, introduced the Trolls, and got to the "life in danger" Stuff.
I'm going to stop right there, to avoid spoilers. (don't worry I finished the movie, and to be fare, I enjoyed the rest of the 3rd act) So I'll just give A quick final rundown
BAD
1. 1st act focused too much on Ana and her naive relationship with the Prince.
2. Too many songs, with most of them being annoying and too random. (every time a new song started I face palmed)
GOOD
1. Good Characters, with Elena being my favorite.
2. Original and well done story. Exploring a Sister-Sister relationship was believable and well done.
3. The Visual effects on the Ice, and the Cold environment they built was fantastic to look at.
So...3 out of 5
It was an Okay film. Not the best. But not terrible either. You just have to sit through about half an hour of sucky exposition to get to the good stuff. And keep those Trolls the Hell away from me.
Would I see it again? Probably not. The only reason I would return to it, is to see the parts I skipped over for various reasons.
Anyway, that's my opinion of Frozen. Maybe you liked it more then I did, maybe you didn't. If you did, I understand why. But it's just not for me.
Have a nice day.
Okay let's just get into it.
As the film opens up, we have two little girls, who happen to be Princesses, with a very close relationship. The elder sister has the special power of creating and controlling Ice, of which they use to play game, build snowmen, etc.
During one of their play dates, the younger sister, Ana, takes a headshot with and Ice blast, turning a lock of her hair permanently white. Elena, the older sister, and their parents, take Ana to a tribe of Trolls to heal her. They erase all of Ana's Memories of her sister's powers, and keep them a secret.
Elena must now spend the rest of her Childhood away from her sister, keeping her Powers secret from everyone.
Later, when they are teenagers, their Parents leave on a ship for a few weeks (I assume to trade with another kingdom, but it's never really explained). However, a storm hits and the King and Queen are killed off. (It's a Disney film, go figure)
This opening, I actually really liked, it set things up nicely, and I liked the relationship between Elena and Ana, It was very believable. And When they are forced to be separated, Ana has no Idea why. I think all of us have been there I one point in our life. Be it on the Internet, or real life. We all have family and/or friends that you are very close, but then, out of the blue, with no Idea why, they start avoiding you, and no longer want anything to do with you. And I loved this Opening for exploring that.
Disney has done Sister Relationships before, but not when they were so close to the same age (as far as I remember) And I liked the relationship they built for us.
Finally, Elena becomes of age, and is about to Coordinated into becoming Queen. All with the fear of letting her Ice Powers getting out of hand.
After that brilliant opening, the rest of 1st act......falls kind of flat. They almost hooked me with that opening, but they lost me as soon as Ana meets the Prince. And at this point I realized the movie's biggest Problem. The songs. They're just not that interesting to me. Other then one, I did not like any of the songs. It was during this 1st act, can't remember when, one of the songs I think, I got up out of my chair, and played a short game out in the Lobby before returning. When I came back, Elena's Powers started flash freezing everything.
At this point, The movie started picking up for me. I started enjoying it again. Elena flees to the top of a frozen mountain, and enters a song and dance Number that I actually enjoyed. The melody, the singing, the great visuals, went beautifully together.
This would be good time to mention another thing I like. The Visuals. The things they do with Elena's Ice, was incredible. And it pushed her into favorite Character of the movie for me. She rivals Iceman. (Screwattack Death Battle GO!!!)
Meanwhile, Ana treks up the mountain to try and talk to her sister. Enter Chisdoff An Ice Block sells men with a Reindeer for a best friend. (our Male lead being a little late to the party huh) And after a humorous encounter with a Canadian Lodge owner, set out together up the mountain. Along the way, they encounter a talking snowman named Olaf.
This Character was the major draw for kids. He was in all the trailers, and to be honest, the comic releave that this movie needed. He's alright, and I found the jokes surrounding him pretty funny. Of course, he get's a song number, that, once again is grown worthy, but I found the idea of an ignorant Snowman, who doesn't know how heat will affect him, funny.
Eventually they trio reach to Ice Palace, and this is when the 3rd and best act begins. After an encounter with Elena, puts Ana's life in danger, Chrisdoff takes her to the same Trolls from the opening in an effort to heal her. This leads into another RANDOM a** song number with the Trolls singing about Love. I would have found it better if they skipped the song number, introduced the Trolls, and got to the "life in danger" Stuff.
I'm going to stop right there, to avoid spoilers. (don't worry I finished the movie, and to be fare, I enjoyed the rest of the 3rd act) So I'll just give A quick final rundown
BAD
1. 1st act focused too much on Ana and her naive relationship with the Prince.
2. Too many songs, with most of them being annoying and too random. (every time a new song started I face palmed)
GOOD
1. Good Characters, with Elena being my favorite.
2. Original and well done story. Exploring a Sister-Sister relationship was believable and well done.
3. The Visual effects on the Ice, and the Cold environment they built was fantastic to look at.
So...3 out of 5
It was an Okay film. Not the best. But not terrible either. You just have to sit through about half an hour of sucky exposition to get to the good stuff. And keep those Trolls the Hell away from me.
Would I see it again? Probably not. The only reason I would return to it, is to see the parts I skipped over for various reasons.
Anyway, that's my opinion of Frozen. Maybe you liked it more then I did, maybe you didn't. If you did, I understand why. But it's just not for me.
Have a nice day.
