Frozen

So, two weeks ago (same time as the final of melodifestivalen) I finally sat down and watched the latest animated movie from Disney, Frozen. The good parts is that is very good animation, the music works alright (of course Let it Go is one of the better songs) and it's fun to notice the small throwbacks to other Disney-movies. Most oblivious is the wall painting dresses during the first song. There's a golden Belle dress, a blue Cinderella dress, a red Sleeping beauty and the mulch-colored Snow White dress. Or I believe it's hinted at those dresses.

Is it something wrong then in the movie? Too many damn songs. This is the reason I started disliking the Disney Renaissance in the 90's since there was song after song and it felt like love songs or how do you feel. Of course that could also be due to me turning into a teenaged boy. Really, it was huge for me that Atlantis didn't have a single song. But that's nothing compared to here when the songs literary stacks up on each others. Then the story, it works fine about sisters love for each other, what does true love means and love at first sight etc. but compared to the original story of the Snow Queen where this lonely girl travels all the way to the north pole to save her best friend from the clutches of the Snow Queen as he's slowly dying from the mirror shard turning his heart to ice and only through the girls love (more akin to friendship) his heart un-melts and they escape. 

And my sister mentioned they intended the snow queen to be evil in the beginning, but after doing Let it go, they changed their mind (which I clearly saw as that scene ends on Elsas "evil sexy grin"). They should have kept that, show some more disaster of the eternal winter brought upon them and ended with Elsa realizing her wrongs and sacrificing herself for her sister, forcing her childlike sister to grow up (seriously, she annoyed me quite a bit about her behavior and attitude) and if we still need a happy Disney ending move forward a year next winter and Elsas restored to herself with the first snow of winter since... she is the snow queen, the end everyone's happy. And freaking show how cold-hearted Elsa has become and don't let the driving conflict of the story be a simple communication problem between them. That bugged me as well. Maybe I'm to old for Disney movies these days.