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Frozen 2013

The amount of media activity and advertising around this movie grabbed my curiosity. Then the first fifteen minutes throttled that curiosity and choked all life out of it. My God is this bad. I have no bias against Disney; WALL-E was a great film and I certainly have a lot of nostalgia for their 90s work.
Here are some heartfelt lyrics for you to consider.


The window is open, so's that door
I didn't know they did that anymore
Who knew we owned eight thousand salad plates?
For years I've roamed these empty halls
Why have a ballroom with no balls?


Don't know if I'm elated or gassy
But I'm somewhere in that zone


Ooh! I suddenly see him standing there
A beautiful stranger, tall and fair
I wanna stuff some chocolate in my face


Apparently Disney now thinks that quirky spontaneity is a substitute for actual humour. I guess when you're making kids films, quality control is not really needed, right? Wrong. Getting back to those 90s films, Randy Newman's contributions to Toy Story were all spectacular. Is there perhaps anything more iconic to the company than the sombre classic You've Got a Friend in Me? Compare these lyrics to those in Frozen. For a start they aren't nearly as convoluted, and certainly don't sound as though they were written by an eight year old with a rhyming dictionary. Basic, but still memorable and contain some useful values for kids to learn.
Kids aren't stupid, and it's sad to see films like Frozen endorsing this plague of talentless song and scriptwriting. Needless to say this is not the dawning of Disney's second Golden Age that critics have purported this film to signal. Just another saddening reminder of how far they've traveled from their creative peak.

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Not that too much of what you said was very wrong, but you are comparing Toy Story and Wall-E to Frozen. Though associated with Disney, Pixar films are much different than those made in the Disney Studio. True it's bad, but honestly a lot of animated movies these days are becoming more sloppy.

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