Review of Frozen II (2019) by Movieturtle — 29 Nov 2019

Ultimately, fantastic animation, above average music (nowhere close to the first), mediocre world building, and a sub-par story.

Much like a good portion of this movie, my feelings about it are bitter-sweet. Going into its predecessor with low expectations and getting a fantastic movie I was hoping that the sequel to such a shift for me could break through that sequel-curse barrier. I think it made cracks but got stock with not enough.

The music wasn't nearly as good. It has a chilling vocal as the driving story mechanism, but gets so overused. None of the numbers are catchy and there is simply too much Christoph songs.

The world building around the magic starts off interesting with elemental influence then Elsa is shown to be their connection/source/living god at this point. It felt forced and like the writers had no idea where they were going. Some cross between Irish/Native folklore, shamanism, and totemism. The ultimate source of Elsa's power is a gift because Elsa approved of Elsa's father's actions...wat. They could have dropped the whole source/5th element and the whole thing would have been much more cohesive.

The story and the twist is the same-old people who follow nature do no wrong and are betrayed. Way overdone and with nothing to indicate it should happen from what we see anywhere else in the movie. Very little expansion of Arundel except as token references or basic plot devices. Surprisingly Olaf was much more palatable and actually useful for expressing complex ideas (though in a joking fashion).