Well, it’s not Monday, but Monday I was too depressed and horrified by the performance of a certain sports team to blog about anything. I sat in my chair and ate ice cream. But, because they are only a sports team, I am now fully recovered and able to review the movie Frozen, as promised.
Brace yourself, I have good and bad things to say. If you disagree, that’s fine, we can’t all love all the same stuff, but I would appreciate restraint as to personal insults about my personal person. It’s just a cartoon after all. I’m not saying anything about any of your babies.
First the good. I loved the music! It was also nice to hear all those beautiful songs the way they are meant to be heard, which is not, I might add, out of the mouths of 2 and 3 year old girls who not only sing off key, but make up words where ever they cannot recall the actual lyrics. I did love those songs and have found myself humming and singing them for the last several days. I will most likely purchase the sound track!
I loved that the movie was about sisters! I love my sisters with all my heart, they are some of my very best friends and the people I count on to have my back. They have supported me, loved me, listened to me and talked me down from crazy. It was inspiring to see a movie about sisters who love and are devoted to each other and would do anything for each other. Loved that.
I liked the pictures. However they are doing animation these days, I am loving it! The images were amazing, colorful, and richly detailed. I’m a little picky about how cartoons look, and don’t enjoy a lot of animation because of styles I just don’t like. One of my favorite movies is Sleeping Beauty, for the very reason that they really thought outside the box on the illustrations. The gothic look of the cartoon is amazing.
I also loved that the women were strong and capable. I consider myself a feminist in that I believe that women should be paid the same as men for the same work, and that women can do whatever jobs they want and have the life that means the most to them personally, whether that means a career outside or inside the home.
So, so far we have:
Music? Love
Sisters? Love
Animation? Love
Strong Women? Love
Now, the part I did not love.
I am wondering why just about every cartoon man in the movie was either bad, mean, or useless. Even the ‘hero’ Christophe, didn’t really DO anything. He just sort of followed Anna around. Where were the strong men? Can we not have a strong man in the same movie as a strong female? The dad was portrayed as stern, unfeeling and then dead. The visiting prince was a fraud and then a wanna be murderer. And then there was the guy from Weaseltown. The only community with a strong male was a TROLL.
Do men have to be idiots for women to be strong? I don’t believe this would have bothered me so much if I didn’t feel like I see it in many areas of television and film. Watch a few commercials and tv sitcoms to see what I mean. The women are smart and funny, the men are dumb. Not in every case, but enough that you wouldn’t be watching tv very long to see it.
That being said, I did like the movie a lot, and felt that it was a worthwhile film.
And, at the very least, I now know the ACTUAL lyrics:)
