So, I know I already reviewed this film and even put a shorter summary of my thoughts in my "Top 25 Movies of 2013" list back in February. I won't retread the same ground, however, I do feel I should express how my opinions on the film have changed. I am actually kind of pissed off by the mention of the film now. It has become so aggravatingly popular that it's getting extended runs in theaters, people are racing to their nearest store to buy the Blu-Ray or DVD, and it's now the #10 highest-grossing film of all time (without taking inflation into account), as well as the highest-grossing animated film. My main questions that's been bothering me for weeks: why? Why the fuck does this movie deserve all this praise? I know it's in my favorites of the year list, but if you notice it's considerably lower than most people would consider it worthy of, and the only films below it are
Side Effects, Iron Man 3, Catching Fire, and maybe one or two others. And there's a reason why: my expectations were very high when I heard just how great this movie was. I go into the theater expecting some revolutionary shit. You know what I got? A decent animated film with overrated music and some nice humor. That's it. I personally felt the climax (and plot in general) was very rushed and anti-climactic (which completely misses the point of a
climax). Like I just stated: the music is grossly overrated. And I've enjoyed the music the husband-wife team has done before (
The Book of Mormon and
Avenue Q). But this music is just very...meh. Nothing special, could be better. Not even comparable to...well...none of the other Disney songs are particularly
good per se, they're just very catchy and memorable. So maybe these fit right in with the Disney motto of: it doesn't have to be particularly good or revolutionary music, it just has to be really catchy and popular, and get over-played to the point where it becomes mind-numbingly annoying. Honestly, if I hear "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" or "Let It Go" (or even hear somebody make a pun or bad joke related to them) again, I might just go insane. Sure, Idina Menzel is a talented singer, but that doesn't mean the song is any better. That's like saying "Well Joel Schumacher has done some good stuff in the past, so that means
Batman & Robin has to be good, right?" Again, the film isn't bad. It's just extremely over-rated and unnecessarily praised. it actually makes me angry when people don't admit that
Frozen isn't the "greatest animated film of all time". Here's a list of much better animated films that actually deserve to be #10 highest-grossing movie:
Spirited Away
Akira
The Simpsons Movie (Yes, you're reading that correctly,
The Simpsons Movie is more clever and is more entertaining than
Frozen)
Finding Nemo (Even though this is also kind of over-rated)
Ghost in the Shell
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
The Incredibles
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Wreck-It-Ralph (from the same team as this film, and the vastly superior of the two)
The Princess and the Frog
Shrek 2
How to Train Your Dragon
Alice in Wonderland
The Lion King
Lilo and Stitch
Fantasia
Howl's Moving Castle
My Neighbor Totoro
Toy Story 3
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
Kung Fu Panda
The popularity Frozen is just aggravating to me. And I hate people who instantly shut themselves off to others' valid points. For example: I tried to explain my position on the film to a few
Frozen fanatics, and they just said "No, uh-uh, it's good, you're wrong." That really just irks me to no end. Again: not a terrible movie. Not even a bad movie. But deserves to be #1 highest-grossing animated film? Fuck. No.

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