Why the hate?


I have not seen all Disney movies, but I have seen plenty of 'animated' movies from the old classics, like "A Hundred-and-One Dalmatians" (1961) to Antz (1998, I think) to Toy Story 1,2 and 3 (sequels are not a good idea, except from MONEY perspective), so I think I have some basis and grounds for assessing and estimating an 'animated movie'.

There are silly and nonsensical points, the story is kind of flat, and this movie, if any, raises a zillion of those nagging thoughts in the vein of 'but why didn't she.. but if that's true, then why..'.

However, there's SO much good about this movie, I don't really understand all the hate. Sure, the movie was popular, and popularity, memes and advertisement about the same thing constantly drumming your head like a bongo gets understandably annoying.

But that's no reason to write stupid hate posts that have no explanation as to why anyone would hate this movie as a whole.

This movie has really good animation, great facial expressions, SO MUCH VISUAL BEAUTY, amazingly good songs (and I don't usually care about songs in ANY movies, singing is just annoying to me for the most part, I prefer instrumental music with 1980s synths or such), great relationships, lots of actually good, clean, fun humor, and wacky characters and even a couple of twists I did NOT see coming!

There's so much heart to this movie, you actually feel warm inside when the sisters finally embrace each other's siblingly (is this a word?) love, and you root for them both. You know Elsa isn't evil, she's just scared, even though she acts like a villain some of the time and even sings a song about glorifying selfishness.

For just a silly Disney kids' movie, this is an actually amazing presentation, it has so much talent and thought put into it, it's not just one of those careless factoryline crap churned out just to make a buck, there's actual CRAFTSMANSHIP involved, and did I mention a lot of beauty?

The beauty is not only visual, there is a good message or two here, and the way the protagonist actually buys a man a car (well, a sled, but symbolically, it's the same), is something you don't usually see in movies - a woman that's not only responsible and good for her word, does what she says she plans to, but also is humble enough to respect a man's work and humanity and gives him a wonderful gift (although she destroyed his previous vehicle anyway, so she's kinda responsible).

The effects, musics, sounds, are all great - you have to be a real nitpicker to hate anything about this movie TOO much - I do hate the inconsistencies and the nonsensical stupidities, but I hate that about every movie. This is clearly a really well-done, good, entertaining movie with so much joy to witness, hear and ponder about, and so much heart your heart must be colder than anything Elsa can summon if you don't feel at least something good while watching this.

Just like Cars 2, I don't get the hate. I went into Cars 2 without knowing more than some people have hated it a lot, and I was expecting it to be worse than the pretty lackluster and boring first movie. How surprised was I to see exciting sceneries, amazing adventure, really cool 'agent stuff', enticing sensuality and beauty, and even rendered Japan (or at least Car-version of 'Tōkyō' with katakana signs that make sense (everyone can read at least katakana, right?)! The story was unique, and it even has environmental concern about it, and shows how corporations that pollute the most, paint themselves to look really ecological so people get duped. It was a brilliant movie in all possible ways, I don't understand why anyone would hate it in ANY way, I can't figure out a proper reason to hate it!

It even has Michael Cain trying to speak japanese (his 'Kochira e, douzo' is hilarious, no japanese would ever think he's japanese if he pronounces it THAT badly), what more can you want?

There are genuinely bad movies to hate, why do people hate good ones? I don't understand people of this planet at all, a bunch of toxic haters!

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Beats me as well.
Some people genuinely don't like the movie (l can't find a movie that SOMEONE doesn't like)

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Maybe some are Troll posts to get a response?

There's an age range where it's not "cool" to like "Frozen" and it might be that.

There's also people who just don't like Disney, they think it's in some way subversive and sending a bad message to their kids.

l am not in the above categories, l
love "Frozen" and "Frozen 2"

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I don't hate it, but there were times I really wanted that hyperactive toothpaste-blob thing to just shut up.

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Let it go

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Well, I think we can blame a lot of the negative opinions on hype backlash.
If a movie becomes this popular, some people are bound to get sick of how much other people talk about it.

Personally, I like it except for two things...

1: There was a part of the movie after the parents disappeared, when nothing seemed to happen.
I can see how it was symbolic for how Elsa and Anna struggled with guilt, fear, isolation and loneliness for years.
And I won't deny that the voice actresses performed their songs really well.
But I was getting tired of them just singing and wanted the plot to start already.

2: And I don't like how Elsa and Kristoff basically ridiculed Anna for wanting to marry someone she just met.
I guess that they were afraid that Anna would make a mistake (and yes, Hans did turn out to be a villain).
However, it would have been more realistic if Elsa had been glad that her sister found a seemingly good match.
And I don't see what right Kristoff had to criticize Anna in the first place even if he wanted to protect her.
But my biggest annoyance with this is actually on a meta level.
It is like the writers thought "just look at how stupid Disney princesses are for believing in love at first sight".
Except it had not happened in any Disney movie since "The Little Mermaid", which was 24 years earlier.
So it was not clever or edgy at all to mock it when "Frozen" was made.
And the older movies which they tried to mock were fairytales, where love at first sight was a real thing...

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