What am I not getting about Frozen?

JasonMarsh said:

My main thing is, who the heck is this girl with these magical powers? Where did she come from? Is she a natural born child of the king and queen, or was she "adopted"? Why does she have these particular powers, and why is she the only person in the kingdom with magic? What is her connection to the rock trolls? Too many unanswered questions, I couldn't completely get into the story.

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Agreed. Elsa's character seemed completely undeveloped. Her personality is totally flat and I cant imagine looking up to her or wanting to be her if I were a little girl. Anna's "quirky" personality I feel tries to compensate for Elsa's complete lack of personality and Disney's criticisms that all Disney princesses in the past have just been the same nice, courageous, pretty, sometimes funny characters. However, Anna's awkwardness was overkill, I felt, and actually ended up getting on my nerves at times. I also feel that the songs (with the exception of For the First Time in Forever) are poorly composed and not at all comparable to other Disney musicals like The Lion King or Aladdin. They stick in your head, but they really aren't great songs...Olaf made the movie for me and I like the overall message of Frozen, but I will be very sad if this goes down as one of Disney's greats because it is so subpar compared to the real classics.

Do you realize why this movie made money? Because five year old girls can't stop singing the annoying songs. The movie was awful, the scenery was blah, and the characters were flat with zero substance. I can't imagine kids flocked back to the theater as often as they did just to see the movie. It was for the music. Hel|, even Disney pretty much admitted to it when they released it to theaters as a sing-along. The didn't have a hit movie on their hands, the had a hit soundtrack.

Watching it right now. Still don't see the big deal about it.

Personally, I appreciated that the movie was about sisterly love and not just romance. That’s what a lot of reviewers thought was refreshing, as far as I can tell. There’s a lot of truthfulness in its themes when it asserts that true love is meaningful and important, and that making wise judgments and taking responsibility are vital. All very inspiring themes that make for interesting conversations. In my opinion, Frozen is pretty skillfully developed. There’s an incredible amount of detail in the design of buildings and clothing. That doesn’t mean it’s a perfect film by any means, and there were a lot of things that could have been better. Anyway, as for its popularity, I found one article that suggested the movie is popular with small children (the target audience) because the relationship between two sisters and the struggle between being a “good girl” and "letting go" are things that they can really relate to. It’s relevant to their experience. In fact, it was creating these aspects that allowed the creators of the movie to relate to the characters. It was motivated by their experiences and that was apparently the moment where the movie began to come together into something that worked.

When I watched Frozen for the first time, I loved it. However, replays have not been so kind to this film for me. There are too many inconsistencies and the story feels a tad empty as do the characters. Frozen is like a painted Easter egg for me, an attractive outer shell which lacks true substance. Having said that, I do still enjoy watching it from time to time as my younger siblings love it. However, if I get the choice of movie, I always choose Tangled over Frozen (which always seem to be paired together when deciding on a movie).

Yellowstonetim said:

They weren't evil, they just faced a really tough problem. They should have done something, and they did make a wrong choice, but they loved her and cared about her and tried. Maybe the trip was to help.

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I never suggested that they were evil or that they did not love Elsa, but their choice in raising her caused her to become even more dangerous as her powers grew in adulthood, which they were warned of, setting the scene for the Duke's tirade against her.
While I grant that they wouldn't have known exactly how to help her control her powers, the first step could have been for them to ask the elder troll if he knew how Elsa could reverse her ice, this in turn would have reduced her fear of herself, giving her more confidence.

As for your suggestion that their trip which they were killed on was to find help for Elsa, that's actually exactly what the ABC series 'Once Upon a Time' portrayed. It's in the first half od season 4.

rachnisaur said:

Personally, I appreciated that the movie was about sisterly love and not just romance.
In my opinion, Frozen is pretty skillfully developed. There’s an incredible amount of detail in the design of buildings and clothing. That doesn’t mean it’s a perfect film by any means, and there were a lot of things that could have been better.
the struggle between being a “good girl” and "letting go" are things that they can really relate to. It’s relevant to their experience.

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That's exactly what I think. I enjoyed the sisterly love and the struggle between them. More than that I really found myself in the struggle between beeing who you are and who others want you to be. The feeling of "letting go" is something nearly everyone feels on day. Thats the essence for me and worked for me very well. Obviously I am a fan of Frozen