Well, we did it guys, we're only 10% to a million subscribers! Now, I didn't really wanna make a video that
does nothing other than acknowledges this, especially considering that beyond our own human interpretation, this number doesn't have any more significant
than literally any other number in existence. Like, somebody forgot to tell anyone that during the Y2K craze. I almost feel like I should have made
a 'Happy 92,817' video or some shit. "Hi, welcome to my channel where I take the fun out of everything." Anyway, I still do appreciate it and I figured
what better way to show my appreciation, than to finally get around to watching the movie that everybody and
their grandmother has been telling me to review since its release. Everyone who really loves it, wants my thoughts on it, and everyone who doesn't love it, wants me to
reaffirm their opinions on how over-hyped it is. "I'll just ask that YMS guy, he hates everything." Now that I've finally watched it, do
I consider this film to be overrated? Yes, yes and yes. Do I consider it to be a bad movie? Not really. I mean, overall, I wasn't really anything special,
but there were parts of it that I did really love, and parts of it that were extremely difficult to take seriously. Let's just start at the beginning. The opening song hits, and I think it's pretty great. Although I don't feel like the tone they've set up
through the song matches the rest of the film very well, the song's written in such a way that you can tell it's
intentionally reminiscent of earlier Disney films. I like it. And I also like how they bothered to show
a character that we see later in the film. They kept it relatively subtle enough, that it came off as a nice
extra touch, rather than something being shoved in your face. I'm pretty glad that I chose not to watch this movie in theaters, not only because seeing a film with an audience full of
annoying children has proven to be an undesirable experience, but I feel as though I avoided some horrible glares from
parents, because I burst out laughing when I saw this part: [clip] - Woo!
- Anna! [canned laughter] [YMS] The set-up for the film does have
some nice little extra bits of effort put into it, but the vast majority of this set-up feels like
it was just thrown together out of obligation. They're like, "Help, she accidentally froze
the inside of her sister's head." and he's like, [clip] I recommend we remove all magic, even memories of magic. [YMS] I envy being the type of person that can watch that,
without immediately hearing a voice in their heads saying "Why?" So you've removed all of her memories of
magic, so that her brain is no longer frozen. I mean, I'm not gonna ask for a scientific explanation or anything,
but using magic to solve problems in films always feel so cheap. I mean, I get that it's the exposition, but I feel like this part of the
story is losing a lot of opportunities to actually develop things, and yeah, the problem exists because of magic in the first place,
and I'm totally OK with them not explaining why she has powers, but it feels kinda stupid when the problem is caused
by something as simple as pointing at someone, but the solution to that problem is also
using magic, but it can never be that simple. Like, if we were at a point in a story where
the narrative wanted to wrap things up, then sure, he'd had his hand over her
head and she be fine with nothing to it, but since the narrative has different motives at this point, they're like, "Oh, we gotta... erase your memory and now you
gotta keep it a secret from her, cuz you're dangerous." It felt kinda weird that that was his first recommendation,
as though it was like "Yep, that's how things work." I feel like it would have even made more sense for him to fix the
problem through magic, and then have amnesia as a by-product. She could have forgotten everything, and they still
could have decided to keep magic a secret from her, but then I wouldn't have felt nearly as convenient and coincidental as, "Oh, you've got a frozen brain? Well, you
just gotta remove all memories of magic." Like apparently, it could have just as easily as been "Oh, you've got a frozen brain? Well, you just
gotta remove all memories of ice cream." [clip] You must learn to control it. Fear will be your enemy. [YMS] "Yes, child. Fear is your enemy. Let me present
that to you in a way that will make you scared shitless." So the next song kicks in, and I think that one's pretty awesome too.
I love music and I don't really restrict myself to any particular genre, and I can see why the general public won't
shut up about the Frozen soundtrack. Having really good song writers means almost everything in
terms of making your Disney animated film stand the test of time. Music is special, in the sense that it can
just show up in your head uninvited. Like, "Fuck! I'm trying to shower, and all of a
sudden I got a catchy song in my head!" ♪ (Under The Sea) ♪ It's the songs that stick with people, and
not the story scenes that tie them together, and that explains why this film got the level of praise that it did. The musical scenes in a Disney film are able to invade your brain
in a way that's not really possible for any other regular scene. Like, no one washing dishes at home
just starts talking to themselves like: [clip] [Triton] Now, Sebastian, I'm concerned about Ariel.
Have you noticed she's been acting peculiar lately? - [Sebastian] Ooh, peculiar?
- [Triton] You know, moaning about, daydreaming, singing to herself. [YMS] If you want your Disney movie to be remembered
you've gotta make sure the music is done right. The music in the Princess and the Frog was acceptable, but there was
nothing that would really stay in your head once you left the theater. But this time, it looks like the right people were hired, and
for the most part, they're really managed to pull it off. With a completely different soundtrack, I highly
doubt this film would be nearly as successful, and that statement rings true for a lot of classic Disney films. Now unfortunately I'm rating this film
as a film, and not as a soundtrack, so whereas the story scenes that connect the
songs aren't necessarily the most important, they're not really scenes that I can tell myself to ignore, and it
would be nicer if they didn't seem so rushed and underdeveloped. Because really, Frozen is essentially one big music video
that to me, feels dragged down by its connecting parts. Like OK, so their parents die, and then three years
later, they're finally allowed to see the public, but we're not supposed to wonder who's
been running things this whole time? The animation ranges anywhere from good
to great, depending on what we're seeing. The best computer-animated Disney films had
perfected hair movement quite a few years back, and it's great to see just how much time and effort
was put into making the snow particles feel realistic. So Elsa finally comes of age to become the queen, and Anna
meets this bullshitty fake stereotypical prince dude named Hans, which is totally acceptable, because he's supposed to be bullshitty,
fake and stereotypical, and I'm gonna get into that more later. So Anna goes up to Elsa and says they're getting married,
and Elsa's like, "What the fuck? It's been, like, not even a day." They get into a bit of a disagreement
where Elsa's glove get snatched off of her, and then she accidentally shoots ice at people,
and they're like, "Oh shit! This is witchcraft!" She runs away and crosses the water, and apparently
her powers can go through her shoes but not her gloves. And if I were animating this scene, I would have it so that the ice
is spreading fast enough that no matter where she's stepping, it's always rooted on the piece behind her. Because really, if you're stepping on a small piece of ice
that's not attached to anything, you're still gonna sink. I don't know: when the tone of the film is clearly implying a level of
seriousness, then it helps to have a certain level of realism for me. Like, if any of the shit was happening in something
like Fantastic Mr. Fox or Panique au village, then it would make the film funnier,
because it plays on its own ridiculousness. But when there's a constant tone of "She's
running for her life, and this is serious." mixed with the fact that if there are going to be any consequences
in this kids' movie, they're not going to be at this point in the story, the attempt at serious emotions that they're
trying to convey might work for some people, but it's understandable that it doesn't work for everybody. It's not really fair to blame someone for being
unable to take most kids movies seriously, when it's really rare that anything
serious will even happen in the film. Anna decides that she needs to go after her sister,
and Prince Hans offers to come with, but she says, [clip] I need you here, to take care of Arendelle. [YMS] OK, nobody's gonna offer to come with her? Like, okay, you want Prince Hans to stay
there, but nobody's gonna come with her? We get back to Elsa, and it's time for her solo musical number. Now, I already knew that the most popular song from the
soundtrack that people wouldn't shut up about, was called Let It Go, so when this song hit the chorus, I
quickly realized that this was the one, and at that moment I got seriously upset, because
this is easily the laziest written song out of all of them. Now, if you know anything about music theory, you'll know that this
particular chord progression has nothing to do with musical creativity, and everything to do with the laziest way to make millions of dollars. Like, I get it, if it's gonna show up
anywhere, it's going to be in a Disney film, but the soundtrack had all ready proved itself so much before, that having this one be "that one song" is
not only a low blow from the songwriters, but also a painful reminder that to the majority of
people on this planet, catchy equals well-written. I would love to be able to get sucked into a song that
I've heard a million times already in different forms, but I simply just can't be entertained by the exact same
song over, and over, and over again, until the end of time. Like, if you're going to use that chord progression, at least have the melody and rhythm written
in such a way that doesn't feel so recycled. Because as someone who does understand music, it's impossible to listen to this song without
instantly thinking of other songs during it. ♪ (Let It Go and Firework together) ♪ Anyway, she meets up with a guy named
Kristoff, who will take her up to the mountains, so she can stop this endless winter caused by her sister. They get attacked by a bunch of wolves, and we get this
comical action scene, and I think it worked out pretty decently. If it didn't have this light-hearted comedy intertwined with this scene, then it would suffer from the exact
same problems I was mentioning earlier. As someone who finds difficulty in watching a kids' movie,
and taking the completely serious scenes seriously. it means everything to the experience when we see clues that
you're not supposed to take the scene completely seriously. [clip] But I just paid it off. [YMS] Now, in kids' movies, typically when we
have an animated animal sidekick that can't talk, the animators aim to make them as cute
as possible for the sake of comic relief, and apparently, the only way to do that is to make them act like dogs. Apparently I'm the only person on the entire
planet that will ever be bothered by this, but hopefully, now that I've mentioned it, the
next time it inevitably happens, you'll be like, "Hey, wait. Maybe this is a really cheap cliché." We get introduced to Olaf the Snowman,
and I appreciate that they added in this line: [clip] How does this work? Ow! [YMS] It gives us the impression that the writers
completely understand how little sense it makes, and they're using it as part of the joke. The posters on this film gave me the impression that
Olaf was going to be constantly loud and obnoxious, so I'm glad that his humor stayed quiet and
quirky, rather than yelling the whole time, because although I would love to find his scenes
funny, they're just not my brand of humor. There have been kids movies in the past that were pretty OK
up until the obligatory comic relief characters were added, but then they're so fucking obnoxious, that
it makes the rest of the film unwatchable. I'm glad to say that Olaf, despite being pretty goofy, was not
so needlessly obnoxious that it made Frozen unwatchable, but I kinda wish they didn't feel so
obligated to give him his own song. Because not only is that not all that great, but pretty much every
song up until this point felt as though it were moving the story along, whereas this one feels like kind of a waste of
time that does nothing but interrupt the story. She finds her sister and tries to convince her to turn
everything back, but she's like, "I can't. I don't even know how." She accidentally freezers her in the chest, and
then spawns a giant snowman to kick them out. They accidentally piss the snowman off,
and now he's, like, actually dangerous. - They need to go down the cliffs, so Kristoff's like,
- [clip] I'm digging a snow anchor. [YMS] And apparently that's a real thing. We see Anna and Kristoff interact, and
they have a very watchable chemistry. And as someone who hasn't been living under a rock the past year, I already knew that Mr. Prince Charming back at
home was gonna turn out to be quite the slime bag. And although I do feel as though these two characters'
chemistries work together very well for a film, I found myself kinda disappointed by the fact that he was there at all. Like, when people were freaking out about this supposed twist
that Prince Charming turns out to be kind of a douche, I was going into this movie kinda expecting it to be a
twist, and not the most obvious thing in the fucking world. Like, they already made sure to double down that
it's a horrible idea to marry someone you just met, and when I watched their intentionally
cheesy musical scene at the beginning, I was impressed with the story for
where I thought it was going to go. By the way that people were raving about it,
I was expecting that by the end of the film, she would learn that her happiness doesn't
need to be dependent on another person, but then it becomes clear that she's gonna
fall for this guy by the end of the film. So yep, you're still incomplete without a man, apparently. That's cool. So, Mr. Douchey Prince goes to fuck with Queen Elsa, and this is about as tense as you can make a fight scene in a kids
movie, where you know that there are no real consequences. Like obviously, nobody's gonna die in the scene, but the amount of sharp objects that are disturbingly
close to people's faces provides some legitimate tension. They then capture her, and lock her up in the town. So, Anna finds out that since she got frozen in the heart, she
will freeze to death if she does not find an act of true love. So she goes back to the town, where
her douchey Prince Charming is waiting, and he's like, "Psych! I'm not gonna kiss you to save
your life, because it actually benefits me if you die." He locks her in the room, and leaves her alive, and
then tells everybody else that she's already dead. Like apparently, this guy with no knowledge of magic or anything, supposedly has a flawless understanding of what her shelf life is
at this point. Kind of a risky decision to leave her alive like that. Elsa breaks free, and then Kristoff is like,
"Oh, something's going down, I'd better go." Anna then also escapes, and then decides that she
needs to find Kristoff to get the true love magic. She sees that her sister is about to
be brutally murdered by this douche, and her frozen heart completely freezes her at the exact
moment where she's able to step in front of the sword, but not also die from the sword, because
she's frozen, and it breaks the sword. At which point after, she directly unfreezes, because it's like, "Oh, she did an act of true love, and put
her own needs in front of someone else's" so Elsa's like, "Oh, so I... all I need to do is just
use love, and then everything will unfreeze. [clip] An act of true love will thaw a frozen heart. Love with thaw. Love. Of course. [YMS] "I've had this magical ability literally my entire life, and I've never
once experimented using different emotions trying to control it." I for one think it would have been hilarious if there was no
conveniently placed ship underneath them, and they all drowned. Also, how did the ship get under the water,
just by the fact that the water was frozen? Like, at what point did it sink, and how did unfreezing
the water cause it to float back up? Feels kinda stupid. We say goodbye to the bad guys, and everything gets pretty
conveniently wrapped up, and that's it, that's the end of the movie. I can already tell that some people are gonna be commenting,
saying I'm judging it too harshly because it's a kids' movie, but not only has everyone and their
grandmother requested that I review it anyway, but from my perspective, people are giving
it too much credit because it's a kids' movie. To people like me, "great for a kids' movie"
does not translate to "a great movie", and neither does "a great soundtrack
to a movie" translate to "a great movie". Yes, its target audience is children, but I am not a
review channel for children, and I am also not a child. I wouldn't even feel slightly obligated to make this review if
children were the only ones that thought this was an amazing film. It's not my intention to piss everyone off, but I fail to
see why I should be giving certain movies extra credit. If you're telling me that I should ignore any issues
I have with it, because it's intended for children, does that imply that you like every single kids' movie ever made? Like if someone went up to you, and talked about
how shitty Food Fight was, you would still say. "No, it's intended for children. You're just
supposed to ignore anything you don't like." It seems that everyone draw the line somewhere, so please do not
act as though the film's target audience exempts it from criticism. If the issues that are riddled within most kids' movies are
present in the same films that I would call 9 or 10 out of 10, then please feel free to call me out on being a hypocrite, but otherwise, I at least try to remain consistent, and hopefully
you can understand why this doesn't necessarily appeal to me. You're not wrong for enjoying it and I'm not wrong for disliking it. If I had to give it a number, I would probably give it a 6 out of 10,
and hopefully, everyone here can try their best to be okay with that. There, I did it, I gave my thoughts on Frozen, I hope
you're happy, happy, [mumbling], 100,000. Thank you! Subtitles by JorWat
seriously thank you for the constant content
Muahahahahaha
It's an older film, but it checks out.
THAT SHOWER SCENE GENUINLY SCARED ME
I can't remember the last time I've cried laughing but the Under the Sea cutaway did it for me.
Thanks, Adam.
I got really pissed off at the end when the character with the moustache, who opened the film saying 'I'm going to do an evil thing', and then does fucking nothing the entire film gets arrested and told that they're making a trade embargo with his town. It was just 'this man is bad man he is punished' with no effort at all.
Also, to add on to what Adam was saying about her not experimenting with her emotions, had she never felt love in her entire life up until that point?
Before watching this video: "You better not ruin Let it Go, Adam"
Part way through the video: "Oh good he likes the music"
Further in the video: "FUCK"
/u/JiffyBot 4:24-4:34
A surprisingly positive review. Frozen is very nitpick-able, Adam could have easily spent 40m+ combing through the story's flaws.
In a way, Frozen has fully circumnavigated the overrated spectrum. When it first came out, people underestimated it because of its shitty ad campaign and were pleasantly surprised. That strong word-of-mouth snowballed (heh) into the overwhelming acclaim that makes it seriously overrated today.