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movie review - Frozen

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a story about a princess with special magical abilities that let her control ice and snow. To the extent that at one point she creates a living snow man with obvious intelligence* and a distinct personality: she makes intelligent life out of nothing. Through a series of unreasonable, stilted, and confusing events she's more or less locked away. Given that she's the hereditary ruler of a kingdom, I'm not sure how that's meant to work but then nothing else about this story works so why not.

This movie really is such a mess that it's hard to know where to start. A lot of it is standard animated-movie stuff (inexplicably intelligent animals, stock villains with amusing characteristics like being very short) but it goes well beyond that. It's virtually impossible to stomach the lousy dialog, melodrama, idiotic "wisdom" from the elders, or anything else that goes on here.

Not recommended. In the strongest possible terms.