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brushwolfI really enjoyed it. The things I didn't like were a few story things, but everything technical about the movie was pretty awesome. If it's animation, color choice or other design, it's pretty much spot-on. Even though particle dynamics and reflected light are going to be big computer-wank things in a movie about ice and snow, it was always subservient to the story - there wasn't a single part where it was really obvious they were showing off their cool new ability to generate this stuff. I enjoyed it a lot more than Desolation of Smaug.
One of the really awesome things about Frozen was that, even though there's a romantic relationship (and what looks like it could be a romantic relationship and isn't actually), the movie's largely about the relationship between the two sisters, and about the older sister reaching some sort of happier balance with her winter witch powers. So it's a little closer to Brave in terms of acknowledging that other stuff goes on in the world than most Disney.
I expected Olof the snowman to be just annoying comic relief, but the character turns out to be poignant and even useful.
There were some D&D moments in there with dire wolves and a giant lumbering snow monster which I loved loved loved loved. I also spent the entire movie thinking about X-Men thanks to how Elsa winds up wearing gloves to help control her mutant powers and conceal them from a world which fears and hates mutants, and Anna's Rogue-style white hair streak. I could not watch this movie without thinking that somewhere out there in the same mountains there was a semi-naked hairy Canadian dude stomping through the snow talking about how he was the best there was at what he did.
Yes I know that makes me a major goober.
The biggest thing I didn't like about the movie; trolls show up several times in the film. Not big giant Norse trolls, but cutesy comic-relief-y 2'tall trolls. They were really disappointing to me especially because they have this great set up where they initially appear to be moss covered rocks which roll into place - so they have this neat Miyazaki thing going and then they're kind of default comic relief.
The other thing is that it's a musical and even though the flow of kinda-catchy songs tapers off over the course of the movie, initially there's a song every 2 minutes or so like it's some sorta Richard Williams film. You've gotta really be in the mood and I'm still not sure whether I was or not.
The weirdest part of the film is that the designers were obviously inspired by Fjord horses for horse coloration - but all the horses are ginormously tall noble steeds, so it looks really weird.
One of the really awesome things about Frozen was that, even though there's a romantic relationship (and what looks like it could be a romantic relationship and isn't actually), the movie's largely about the relationship between the two sisters, and about the older sister reaching some sort of happier balance with her winter witch powers. So it's a little closer to Brave in terms of acknowledging that other stuff goes on in the world than most Disney.
I expected Olof the snowman to be just annoying comic relief, but the character turns out to be poignant and even useful.
There were some D&D moments in there with dire wolves and a giant lumbering snow monster which I loved loved loved loved. I also spent the entire movie thinking about X-Men thanks to how Elsa winds up wearing gloves to help control her mutant powers and conceal them from a world which fears and hates mutants, and Anna's Rogue-style white hair streak. I could not watch this movie without thinking that somewhere out there in the same mountains there was a semi-naked hairy Canadian dude stomping through the snow talking about how he was the best there was at what he did.
Yes I know that makes me a major goober.
The biggest thing I didn't like about the movie; trolls show up several times in the film. Not big giant Norse trolls, but cutesy comic-relief-y 2'tall trolls. They were really disappointing to me especially because they have this great set up where they initially appear to be moss covered rocks which roll into place - so they have this neat Miyazaki thing going and then they're kind of default comic relief.
The other thing is that it's a musical and even though the flow of kinda-catchy songs tapers off over the course of the movie, initially there's a song every 2 minutes or so like it's some sorta Richard Williams film. You've gotta really be in the mood and I'm still not sure whether I was or not.
The weirdest part of the film is that the designers were obviously inspired by Fjord horses for horse coloration - but all the horses are ginormously tall noble steeds, so it looks really weird.