Review of Frozen II (2019) by Compi24 — 26 Nov 2019

Once upon a retcon, there was a grand old behemoth of an animated film that was so revered and slobbered over, everyone silently knew that its follow-up stood zero chance at living up to its heights. No matter how good it would end up being.

With "Frozen II," however, this notion doesn't even really come into play, for things don't particularly measure up to the standards of Disney animated films in general, let alone the standards of a sequel to one of their biggest and most rabidly worshipped successes.

Nothing really happens. No one really learns anything they didn't already know in the first film. No one really changes, for better or worse. There aren't even any material consequences for the characters to deal with at the end of the film -- just logistical ones.

The songs struggle mightily to find anything interesting to do within the key that they're written in, ultimately leaving next to none of the actual pieces of music at the level of memorability that some of the predecessor's songs sat at ("Do You Want To Build A Snowman," "Let It Go," etc.

) It's not a botch job by any stretch, but it is a definite departure in quality from the 2013 hit (which I wasn't even crazy about to begin with).