(Spoilerish I suppose, I'll try to be vague about some things)
Just saw the movie last weekend, I have to say what I liked about it is that was good at providing a false setup of expectations and kicking you for even putting shaping the outcome in your mind that it put in there. Almost jibing at Disney's past version Romanticism by setting it up, and then stomping on it with surprise twists. This is coming from someone who knew the ending to "The Sixth Sense" just by the trailers, I'm not easy to surprise.
The thing I didn't like about, ironically, in the grand scheme was the musical numbers. At least when looking at the story... I mean, the pacing of them is odd as they mostly concentrated the songs at the start of the film and have less and less as the film goes on. And the topics in which they sang about were just bizarre at times and random. Though some of them were fun and powerful, so the odd and "okay" ones I guess are just a have to deal with it moment.
But ironically my brain just hit something as I typed the above criticism... wasn't the Lion King the same way? The first half of the film had musical numbers which established the characters and their desires and the later half delved into more plot driven elements. In the plot element there was a stack conflict-- particularly 2 elements. In TLK it was Simba v. Himself then to Simba v. the guy who made it Simba v. Himself in the first place...this is similar to Frozen's stack, but I won't get into how cause that would definitely be a spoiler.
So huh, looks like I just reverse engineered their formula while writing a comment on the internet, opps.
(Spoilerish I suppose, I'll try to be vague about some things)
Just saw the movie last weekend, I have to say what I liked about it is that was good at providing a false setup of expectations and kicking you for even putting shaping the outcome in your mind that it put in there. Almost jibing at Disney's past version Romanticism by setting it up, and then stomping on it with surprise twists. This is coming from someone who knew the ending to "The Sixth Sense" just by the trailers, I'm not easy to surprise.
The thing I didn't like about, ironically, in the grand scheme was the musical numbers. At least when looking at the story... I mean, the pacing of them is odd as they mostly concentrated the songs at the start of the film and have less and less as the film goes on. And the topics in which they sang about were just bizarre at times and random. Though some of them were fun and powerful, so the odd and "okay" ones I guess are just a have to deal with it moment.
But ironically my brain just hit something as I typed the above criticism... wasn't the Lion King the same way? The first half of the film had musical numbers which established the characters and their desires and the later half delved into more plot driven elements. In the plot element there was a stack conflict-- particularly 2 elements. In TLK it was Simba v. Himself then to Simba v. the guy who made it Simba v. Himself in the first place...this is similar to Frozen's stack, but I won't get into how cause that would definitely be a spoiler.
So huh, looks like I just reverse engineered their formula while writing a comment on the internet, opps.