Frozen or Tangled?

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I was just kind of curious...which movie do you think is better and why? The two seem to be compared a lot as the two most recent Disney movies (and I'm liking the one word titles by the way.... Why wasn't The Little Mermaid called Wet?)
My vote is undecided at the moment. I just love them both!!!
 
I like Frozen.

The story just got my attention better. I LOVED Elsa and Let It Go, and the animation when Elsa made her castle was amazing.

While Flynn Rider's smolder (or something like that...) was awesome, I liked Kristoff and the plot twist in Frozen. I also liked how Anna was NOT saved by a romantic love, but instead a sisterly love
 
Tangled
Don't have me but it's for the simple fact that Frozen kinda bored me and Tangled didn't. Neither one is high on my list of Disney movies tho.
 

I love Frozen and Anna is my second favorite princess (mostly because Anna is adorkable!) (Merida is my very favorite).

But I think I liked Tangled better. Frozen was, in a way, kind of a remake of Tangled.

Tangled was really new and fresh and the scenes and lines were just AMAZING. :goodvibes
 
I think that Frozen was unexpected because it was more like a musical than Tangled. I don't know that one was necessarily better than the other in my opinion. They were pretty different I think other than the fact they both ended with a really happy ending. lol
 
I loved both, but I have to go with Frozen. I got into the story more, I loved the winter setting, and Anna has grown to become my favorite Disney Princess.
 
The thing is, I don't think you can really compare the movies.

Sure, they both are in CGI, and they both have a heroine who grew up in isolation, unable to leave their small space (Rapunzel and Elsa). And a lot of people say that they're alike.

But I find them to be so fundamentally different that I can't process comparing them.

Tangled is about a girl who has power and can control her power but she's so deceived and imprisoned that she's powerless. She accepts her prison because she can't see the bars. But finally she has a dream and she is so into this dream that she is willing to breach the prison, so when the opportunity literally drops into her lap in the form of a bad boy, she takes it. Only when she gets out into the world does she realize that the world is so much bigger than her prison and life is so much more complicated than what her keeper tries to make it out to be. She doesn't even realize it's a prison until she's dragged back into it, but this time she has the strength to go up against her warden.

Frozen is about two sisters who were inseparable until an accident forced a wall between them. The elder is powerful, because shew knows she has power and she fears it, so because she's so afraid of herself she can't control it. The younger suffers from the elder's voluntary banishment as well, because she's starved for love and protection and attention, to the point of becoming almost desperate for it. So when they are reintroduced to the world, the elder can't handle it and the younger is so excited she abandons her wits and goes looking for love in all the wrong places, turning into a big fight and catastrophe. The younger tries to repair the disconnect, but the elder is relishing in the new found freedom of not having to conform to the bonds and please everyone, and is afraid of returning to that state so she lashes out, breaking the bond further. Things escalate and the younger is left in the place of the elder, forsaken, afraid and alone. The elder meanwhile is experiencing her worst nightmare, and both sisters almost don't have the strength to go on, but the elder manages to save the younger from her betrayer.

So in essence, Tangled is about self-discovery and independence. Frozen is about two sisters and just how much trust and distrust can harm. There are some similarities - the unlikely love, the betrayel of someone you trusted and thought you loved - but on the whole I think they're two completely different stories and so can't be compared in that way.
 
The thing is, I don't think you can really compare the movies.

Sure, they both are in CGI, and they both have a heroine who grew up in isolation, unable to leave their small space (Rapunzel and Elsa). And a lot of people say that they're alike.

But I find them to be so fundamentally different that I can't process comparing them.

Tangled is about a girl who has power and can control her power but she's so deceived and imprisoned that she's powerless. She accepts her prison because she can't see the bars. But finally she has a dream and she is so into this dream that she is willing to breach the prison, so when the opportunity literally drops into her lap in the form of a bad boy, she takes it. Only when she gets out into the world does she realize that the world is so much bigger than her prison and life is so much more complicated than what her keeper tries to make it out to be. She doesn't even realize it's a prison until she's dragged back into it, but this time she has the strength to go up against her warden.

Frozen is about two sisters who were inseparable until an accident forced a wall between them. The elder is powerful, because shew knows she has power and she fears it, so because she's so afraid of herself she can't control it. The younger suffers from the elder's voluntary banishment as well, because she's starved for love and protection and attention, to the point of becoming almost desperate for it. So when they are reintroduced to the world, the elder can't handle it and the younger is so excited she abandons her wits and goes looking for love in all the wrong places, turning into a big fight and catastrophe. The younger tries to repair the disconnect, but the elder is relishing in the new found freedom of not having to conform to the bonds and please everyone, and is afraid of returning to that state so she lashes out, breaking the bond further. Things escalate and the younger is left in the place of the elder, forsaken, afraid and alone. The elder meanwhile is experiencing her worst nightmare, and both sisters almost don't have the strength to go on, but the elder manages to save the younger from her betrayer.

So in essence, Tangled is about self-discovery and independence. Frozen is about two sisters and just how much trust and distrust can harm. There are some similarities - the unlikely love, the betrayel of someone you trusted and thought you loved - but on the whole I think they're two completely different stories and so can't be compared in that way.

True, they do have very very different themes. I think you can still compare them if you want, just which one you enjoyed better. But yeah, I see what you're saying.
I do have one slight nitpick thing about your synopsis: the younger saves the elder, not the other way around. It's Anna's sacrifice for Elsa that saves her, which is my biggest reason why I think Frozen is so good: sacrificial love is the greatest form of love, not just "true love's kiss", it goes beyond that.
Other than that, I love how you analyzed the two!
 
True, they do have very very different themes. I think you can still compare them if you want, just which one you enjoyed better. But yeah, I see what you're saying.
I do have one slight nitpick thing about your synopsis: the younger saves the elder, not the other way around. It's Anna's sacrifice for Elsa that saves her, which is my biggest reason why I think Frozen is so good: sacrificial love is the greatest form of love, not just "true love's kiss", it goes beyond that.
Other than that, I love how you analyzed the two!

Well, Elsa's the one that unfreezes Anna, so....

I agree with sacrificial love.
 
I'm gonna have to go with Frozen on this one. Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff all in one movie? Perfection. I cried the whole way through. Frozen was probably my favorite movie of 2013.
 
I know I'm weird but neither of them would make my list of absolute favorite Disney movies...just because I love all the classics and the old style of animation they used, but don't get me wrong, I love them both! I'd have to go with Frozen simply because I relate a lot to both Anna and Elsa in different ways and Olaf cracks me up every time I see it, regardless of the fact that I can quote the whole thing.

I liked Tangled, I just never loved it as much as everyone else seemed to!
 
Love them both, but I would have to go with Frozen simply due to the fact that Olaf may just be one of my favorite Disney characters ever.
 












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