Review of Frozen II (2019) by Nikolayg — 23 Nov 2019

The two stars are for Olaf. Otherwise this would be a zero. Disney has lost its way during the interval of time between Frozen and Frozen 2. Its ultimate goal used to be telling a compelling story. Now its goal seems to be mostly about transmitting political messages, while the other elements of the production are given to an intern to take care of.

The original Frozen had a tightly constructed plot, nice pacing, solid character development, and several memorable songs. Frozen 2's plot is a vague bunch of junk that makes little to no sense on any level, though it does manage to convey a politically correct message dumping on western civilization.

Its pacing is so sluggish in the first half that I saw two families leave at the halfway point. After the movie ended, as I left the cinema I could not remember a single melody from the movie (other than ones that were recycled from the first movie), and no new characters were introduced that were remotely interesting.

The movie was a mess that appears to have been written by committee. It was sometimes boring and sometimes painful. The worst part, though, was seeing the disappointment in my daughter's eyes as she watched.

When after the movie she asked me why this or that happened in the story, I tried to invent answers but ultimately just told her, "because the movie was not very well written." I just didn't know what else to say but the truth.