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>This was a strange experience for me. I thoroughly enjoyed it
>as a comedy, though I wasn't laughing nearly as hard as my
>girlfriend was and she'd already seen the movie three times.
>And it was animated wonderfully, it's seriously wild how Pixar
>continues to one up themselves on that front. But it was also
>a bit of a lifeless movie, with large scenes being taken up by
>very plain color palettes. Stuff like Kristoff riding through
>the snow to a freezing Anna looked like a demo reel from
>Electronic Arts' 2014 E3 press conference.
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>I'm also thoroughly underwhelmed by the "Let It Go" song. It
>comes out of nowhere, the vocals sound oddly forward as if
>someone suddenly swapped the Blu-Ray out for an audio CD, and
>lyrically it really isn't that engaging. I loved Anna and
>Elsa's duet that opened the movie, though, it struck a perfect
>balance of heartrending and childlike wistfulness. Anna's duet
>with The Prince was also fantastic, and if I ever have kids
>they might have to meet Olaf long before Frosty the Snowman.
>But "Let It Go" just is not the jam it's made out to be, it's
>a C-tier song sung by an A-list Broadway woman, that's all. As
>someone who grew up on Mariah Carey CDs I have an appreciation
>for those kinds of songs, but I just don't get the hype.
LOL we just have to disagree on this one. THere are some weak song s in that movie (the Troll song, for example), but I loved "Let It Go" the second I head it (I saw the film fairly early).
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>Where I feel really torn is the story itself fails to be
>compelling. The parents dying so early was the one legitimate
>surprise and it was brushed aside so abruptly one could make
>an argument the children should have been royal orphans from
>the very beginning. The rest of the movie plays on a variety
>of cliches, climaxing in the scene where Sven (a Reindeer
>who's voice smartly comes from Kristoff's imagination rather
>than his own mouth) convinces Kristoff to go back for Anna.
>Prince Whatever-His-Name-Was took a hard swing that wasn't
>earned at all, as did most of the characters honestly.
>Decisions were made in this movie just to move the plot along,
>rarely if ever was any understanding behind those decisions
>established.
I've discussed above how I thought the third act was soft, but I didn't mind Prince Hans' heel turn. It was a bit predictable, however - I figured fairly early on that Anna was going to end up with Kristoff and Hans would either have to be (a) the doormat or (b) the heel. His turn only seemingly comes out of nowhere, on purpose, through selective portrayal of events - once he does his villain monologue, it should be clear he had the whole thing planned out from the beginning (Jennifer Lee, the screenwriter, thought of Hans as a psychopath who is good at "mirroring" people so that they like him. She fought off the entire story department, who wanted hints early on that he was evil).
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>So in the end, I'm left with a movie I enjoyed watching quite
>a lot, but it was hard to tell how much of that was owed to my
>girlfriend's uproarious laughter throughout (especially at
>Olaf). Stripped of the pitch perfect voice acting, the mostly
>great songs, consistently witty banter and lovably fluid
>animation of ice and dance, Frozen isn't a good movie and
>probably isn't even an average one. But that's a whole lot of
>stuff to strip away from a film just to say I didn't like it.
>So I'll say I did.
>
I was gonna say - you take all that away and what's left? A Little Golden Book retelling?
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Pass The Popcorn
...but yeah thats the key winner right there. 
