Probably has something to do with him being a creation. Sentient, yes, but still a creation of magic. Maybe the rules of the idea over "true love" being a cure don't work with magical creations? Maybe because it was from the same source of magic/same person as the magic that was killing her? Idk. I think Olaf's purpose there is exposition to get you thinking about other love besides romantic love. But it's easy enough to figure why his love for Anna didn't work.
My interpretation was that the act of love had to come from Anna because it was HER heart that was freezing. She needed to be the one to commit an act of true love so that her own love would burn away the cold.
@@tabathacarruthers5122 The troll meant they should love her and teach her to be brave, it was her parents who took the basic human " strange things must be bad" attitude.
Except he didn't say that. All he said was "fear will [be] her enemy." The parents just assumed (as many would and the kingdom displays) that it would be the fear of others. Given the "cure" was to seal all Ana's memories I can still see how they'd think that way
I find it very hard to give the trolls the benefit of the doubt as they literally kidnap Christof as a child. He is raised an orphan, but it isn't clear if he wasn't taken from his father after the day's work or if he was an orphan. He was raised by the trolls. So when the trolls propose altering memory to conceal, why is it strange to think the parents would follow suite? Of course it was the wrong decision. The villains of the movie are the parents and the trolls. Hans is just a random twist villain chosen at a crisis moment who until then was beneficial to all those around him.
I don't know man, she literally fought wolves and an ice monster. She saved Kristoff from the precipice and braved the cold to find her sister the first time and a second time to save her. She has some good instincts. The only problem is that she has been isolated from the rest of the world for too long and she remains naive and gives her trust to the wrong people 😗
The parents don't ask Elsa what happened. They assume that she lost control, which she didn't. The girls were playing, Elsa slipped and fell, and was trying to keep Anna from getting hurt when she accidentally shot her with ice. That is not the same thing at all. Elsa and Anna were completely fine up until that point. You cannot completely flip how you parent because one bad thing happened. Life isn't perfect. People make mistakes. Especially kids. I've never liked this plot point. This is terrible.
You realize it’s showing that it’s wrong to behave the way the parents did right? Why would you dislike a plot point that is teaching an important lesson you agree with? 🤔
It’s realistic. Parents (including myself) overreact to things sometimes. The straw that broke the camels back sorta thing. Remaining composed can be difficult.
If I recall correctly, about 60-70% of Olaf's dialogue was improvised on the fly, even the gags, and they were recorded pretty early in the production process so the animation team had to just roll with whatever he said in the recording booth and create the visuals to match it
To add to the Hans hate, I feel like you should know a statue of him gets absolutely destroyed in Big Hero 6 by Baymax in Fred's garden, when he shows off his rocket fist for the first time. It's sort of a blink-and-you'll-miss-it thing.
I agree about the parents. They told her not to fear her magic but all they did was reinforce that fear by keeping her away from her sister and telling her not to use her magic. They should have encouraged her to practice her magic instead - start small and build up so she could learn how to control it. Take measures to keep everyone safe, of course, but don't lock her and her magic away. All they did was make her fear herself and her magic more.
Exactly! They do seem like they are genuinely good people, but the way they handled how Elsa should conceal her powers is so messed up. They literally made her afraid of herself.
Justice for Marshmallow! He’s just doing his best. Lowkey my 6yr old niece loves him and draws pictures of herself and him playing together to show he’s nice. It’s very cute.
@@lka9900 i think that actually shows a lot of emotional intelligence on her part, that she doesn't thnk of him as "evil" just because he was at odds with the heroes of the story. sounds like a sweet kid.
@ she also has a particular fondness for a black plastic lifesize Halloween rat. So she might just be punk rock haven’t decided 😉 yea she’s pretty great, we are all pretty fond of her
@lka9900 Weirdly Marshmallow did get to be the extra party member for Arendelle in Kingdom Hearts 3, so at least he got some recognition there. Not Elsa, Anna, Kristoff or even Olaf. Everywhere else it's the main character of the film that joins Sora, Donald and Goofy but for Frozen it's Marshmallow.
@@leyaeywhat do you mean still. She’s legal age. All of this in theory ofc it being a movie. But when did society start looking down on sexuality towards of age men/women ? Grow up
.... I mean A. she's fictional B. she's over 18 in the majority of the movie and C. she's hot =/ her design is beautiful and meant to be attractive to the eye... like what.
fun fact when i was a kid and saw this in theaters, when anna breathed her last breath after turning to ice there was a small child near the front of the theater who yelled out, in the completely silent room, "THEY KILLED HER!" and it was the funniest thing
The reason why Olaf’s act of true love didn’t save Anna is because Anna had to perform the act of true love. Her heart was frozen by her sister, literally and figuratively, so the sacrifice had to demonstrate forgiveness and self-sacrifice on Anna’s part for Elsa.
I think assuming it was intentional is a bit of a stretch. It'd be a trick enough shot even with proper shooting form. He was grabbing someone's arm who was likely resisting and at an odd angle. It does look like Hans is looking at it, but when he grabs the guy his finger isn't even on the trigger (yes, I went back and did a frame by frame lol), it's the guy Elsa has pinned. Hans has no way of knowing if/when the guy would even pull the trigger.
@Galiant2010 True, perhaps he wasn't assuming the entire thing wouldn't be taken down by a random shot and it was just a safe direction to divert the crossbow? Either way, very surprised that I missed that after watching so many times lol
tbh i think everyone in this thread is half right. he probably recognized distantly that aiming it away in that direction could backfire, and he was completely okay with that but he def wasn't skilled enough to make an actual effort to do it. it was probably more of a "eh, if it hits the chandelier, who cares" basically a lucky coincidence
Mmm, hot gløgg. I see people recommending "Tangled", and I second that. Also, "Atlantis, the lost empire", "The emperor's new grove", and the entire Ghibli library 😃 "The emperor's new grove" has my favorite villain duo😂 Edit: The Emperor's new Groove. Lolol. Not grove.
7:49 fun fact Alex, in the original storyline for Frozen, Elsa was supposed to be a villain. There’s a children’s book (I think it’s a children’s book OR it’s folklore) & it’s called The Snow Queen. In that original story, Elsa is evil. 🙂↕️👍🏻
Yeah. They originally wrote her as a villain. But when they wrote Let It Go they realized it felt too triumphant, too much of a protagonist song, so they changed Elsa to a good guy.
One of the reasons this film was so popular was that it dispersed with the classic Disney princess idea of being saved by a Prince. The sisters saved each other and saved themselves. That was massive for moms brought up with the classic message of needing a man to save you and we were thrilled to make sure our daughters (and sons) received that message loud and clear.
*Elsa's parents locking her away and separating her from society, telling her to suppress herself, that she's dangerous and bad, so she becomes a recluse to protect everyone else. * Alex: That kind of parenting causes problems Also Alex: Elsa shouldn't have cowered away in fear her whole life
That's what I'm saying, he talks about the bad parenting and then turns around and shxts on her the whole time. Like ofcourse shes's running away sh's been made out to be a dangerous monster by her parents.
It's actually an interesting debate. Her parents were absolutely at fault for being bad parents, but adults also have to be responsible for their own actions. And she also did the same thing to Anna! Which is why Anna was so desperate to get married - to be able to get out from under the "protection" of Elsa. You don't let child abusers off the hook just because they were abused by their parents. When reaching adulthood, at some point you have to become responsible for your own actions. So both things can be true: her parents did serious harm to her with their decisions, but she also bears responsibility for her own choices as an adult. And while she made some good decisions (telling Anna, no you can't marry someone you just met), she also made bad decisions (keeping Anna locked up just like her).
I never liked how Elsa's royal parents told her to hinder and push away her abilities, instead of embracing them and improving her strategy to control it and not let her fear overwhelm her. Like a shoddy dam in a stormy river, the more the storm increases its pour, the more stronger the current goes, the more weak the restraint becomes even if it is reinforced or tightened cause everything has a limit, that impediment will break, the water built up will force through in a torrent the results following will not be pretty.
Well think about it Alex, Elsa's parents told her to hide it as a kid, made her feel bad for accidentally hurting Anna and she hid herself away. When they died, nothing changed in the fact that she hid her power, but she was getting stronger and scared of what she could do. Elsa wasn't trying to hurt Anna, it just happened out of fear.
I feel like Elsa gets a lot of hate like Elsa shouldn't run or she's a coward but it's like how was she suppose to overcome her fear if she was never taught how? She has literally never known anything else. It's like when people tell abuse victims to just leave their circumstance. It's just not that simple. And I mean maybe I'm taking this too seriously but I don't hear enough about how she's literally a victim of her environment and upbringing.
I remember watching frozen back in highschool, it's a good movie and I really liked it. Especially the ending of Anna's sacrifice being the act of love and not the typical Disney prince stuff, but I loathe how frozen is STILL everywhere over a decade later
@@springdeerling7866 I have three nieces so I’ve seen it dozens of times lol the songs are bangers and the storyline has fewer plot holes and broader range of emotions. It’s pretty good.
The beginning foreshadows the entire movie perfectly when they was small and having fun Elsa was in control she lost control when she tripped and Anna jumped, Elsa then got scared and lost control, she had never hurt anyone before and she hurt the person she loved the most putting her fear into effect making her lose all control, she needed Anna the whole time, the parents SHOULD NOT have separated them
There is a conversation to be had about repressed, shall we say feeling? Because Elsa goes from frigid queen to smoldering snow princess in 5 seconds once she let's go of the self repression. And suddenly is extremely good at making very flirtatious faces and body language.
Yeah, she could finally be herself at the end of the movie. Her parents didn't only make her repress her magic but her emotions and feelings too, since they're connected to her magic
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who had Frozen sing alongs with coworkers. Ours was Let it Go, but we remixed it to Let Her Go based on our mutual hatred for a horrendous manager that had recently started at our location. 😂
When this film came out it was a refreshing new take that dealt with topics not really explored too much in young adult/ Disney films. Such as not knowing the different types of love that people can feel for one another. And having the main character save herself/ have the main plot focus around sisterly love after parental neglect felt like a new focus at the time. Also, them focusing on rushing relationships felt like it was treating the younger viewers more like young adults was a nice departure from watering down certain topics. And of course, all the songs, and side characters people loved too which is why it was #1 for so long. I feel like Frozen was the last Disney film I saw in theaters actually. I'm more of an anime person than an animated film person though so we typically watch these types of films at home. I think Wall-E and How To Train Your Dragon were some of the only other animated films we watched in theaters. We tend to watch Pixar in theaters more than Disney.
My husband and I look like siblings. People would think we were brother and sister. We sometimes feel we are basically different gender versions of the same person. It's kinda creepy how perfectly we match up. Been together 20 years so, yeah...we are perfect for each other. 😅
Fun fact about trolls in Scandinavian mythology, there is lore that they steal children and replace them with troll babies. Changelings is the term for the swapped babies. So when the troll at the beginning of the movie said she was going to keep young Kristoff I was like NOOOOOOO!
Gentle reminder to be aware of your own toxic masculinity, Christoff is a delightful guy who also happens to be comfortable with being vulnerable. Check your biases my guy lol
Hans is seriously one of the most “realistically” EVIL Disney villains, in my personal opinion. A person that effortlessly manipulative on someone so innocent for personal gain is truly terrifying.
When you realize how little love she must have felt all these years growing up, in order to not realize love and warm feelings cause her icy creations to melt...
Hey Alex! I'm super happy to see your reaction to Frozen! Rewatching through your eyes actually made me realize why this movie was such a massive hit with kids when it first came out, and why it's become a classic. It turns a lot of tropes on it's head, has pleasant surprises and the female characters have flaws but are strong in their own right. Anna is a fucking G, and Elsa once she accepts her powers is a strong reminder to feel all of our emotions without letting them control US. Great lessons for kids, and the sister bond being the true love spell breaker was such a good move. Would love to see you react to the second one :)
Alex, you're saying Elsa doesn't deserve love? you tried to off your own sister while EIsa tries to protect everyone from herself. plus, after she 'covers in fear', she takes time to master her powers and build a friggin castle.
Hans was a terrible twist villain not because it was too obvious, or that the twist didn't shock, but that it shocked for the wrong reason. That reason being that he hardly was a villain. He was a perfectly upstanding character prior with absolutely NOTHING negative surrounding him prior, a good dude who saved Elsa, did this, did that, etc. Yet he just suddenly out of nowhere decided "Actually nah, I'm evil now!". If he wanted Elsa dead, why not let the other guy shoot her when he had the chance? He was going to anyway, and Ana would have still god along and married him if he didn't do the whole evil schtick, so even with the motivation they gave him it feels illogical. Really he just feels like he shouldn't have been a villain. I guess he hit his head at some point off screen and had his personality shifted on itself.
@@zelbayanym That's fair. I do agree there were definitely hints of it, but I also still feel there are holes in it all the same(again, depending on when he decided it would be the best idea to kill Elsa, why not let that guy shoot her with the crossbow? No blood on his hands, can still marry Ana and become king.. I dunno, he just seemed too perfect in a way that it almost wasn't? He seemed too legit, I suppose, that it felt less like a twist villain to me and more like "oh, he just decided to turn evil now.". Iirc, I heard that they originally were debating on giving him a redemption arc in the second film before they scratched the idea. Probably because he really didn't feel that evil overall until near the end during the switch up. I do agree however there were signs, I'm just not sure if for me personally they were enough to constitute that he was well done since other things still feel contradictory.
5:30 I mean, if you are to believe the fan theories, Anna & Elsa's parents didn't die during the storm, but shipwrecked on an island where they had a third kid, which would be Tarzan, only to later die to jungle cats.
Man, the start of that Tarzan movie feels like the premise to a Man vs Nature horror film. Like Jaws, or that Florida flooding Aligator movie Crawlspace. Imagine surviving an awful wreck like that, only to get killed a big f--k-off-cat.
29:10- I agree with you. This movie is pretty simple and cannot compete with 90s Disney classics. For me this doesn't get even at the bottom of Top 10.
Honestly, men have a very different idea of what's manly than what I do, because I thought kristoff was the manliest man. And when I saw the second movie, I was already an adult, but Kristoff is just a really awesome male Disney character. Out of every single Disney movie, I'm confident that he is my favorite male counterpart
Your rant on parenting is my favourite bit. so true. as a parent myself, I try so hard to keep from sheltering my kids too much and letting them be more independant as they grow
Love your videos! super sorry about the following long comment 😅 Watching this film today makes all of Alex's comments super valid. But since this film was made in 2016 when Inside Out didn't exist yet, there was no predecessor to the following messages of "not marrying someone you just met", "Anxiety can be dealt with in healthier ways", and "the Male Lead can be more than just manly" - which is why Hans was manly and Christoph was softer". Even the ending kiss when Christoph asked for Anna's consent was a new-age lesson since no disney film existed with that subtle message. I think the way Anna and Elsa both turned out was the only way they were going to turn out without their parents having made better decisions/actually letting Elsa learn how to use her powers. There was no way for Elsa to have the epiphany of "Oh I don't have to listen to fear" since the last time she ACTIVELY used her powers she had hurt her sister who was everything to her back then and she never had external validation/encouragement that she could learn to use them. And yes the parents should not have interpreted the Troll's words to mean they should isolate their kid. Now there is something else to clarify; their parents weren't overprotecting Elsa which is why that isn't one of the lessons the film was trying to make. Elsa's parents weren't trying to shield her because they were hoping to keep her from negative feelings, they truly thought suppressing the magic meant there would be less of a chance that OTHERS would fear her. Magic was clearly not common and just like how everyone reacted when they saw Elsa's magic it makes sense why the parents would think hiding it was the only solution. Reality is like that too; someone does something new that is considered strange, usually they are ostracized or told to keep it to themselves (almost every Autistic or ADHD child would have experienced this before getting tested). AGAIN the parents' decision to suppress their kid is not the healthier or correct choice! But yeah, there is a difference between shielding and suppressing (I guess stifling would be somewhere in the middle??)
It Def took away from the reaction for me too. I enjoyed the rest of it but almost left bc of those comments. It's really sad how many boys are raised thinking that feeling their feelings is bad.
There's this whole "man" movement going on in the US. Gotta be a red-pilled, "Alpha" that spends half their time in the gym or you aren't a man. That's how we ended up with our new president.
Christoph a man which life revolves around ice gets teary eyes when seeing a cathedral out of ice and runs away from a giant ice ogre - Alex: "What a wuss"
Its not a Disney movie, but every kid and parent should see it just because its hell of a fun. El Dorado. The next one is Prince of Egypt of course and for me the best movie from Disney that depics cruel reality of old times is Hunchback of Notre dame. Excelent story and one of most terrifing and most realistic villain of all time.
10:33 it’s a representation of Elsa’s trauma from the moment she froze Anna, she’s been born with this thing that has the potential to cause harm, and she’s unable to control it. And with the advice her parents gave her she believes the only thing she can do is surpress it - which by the end of the movie she learns that she CAN take control of it and DOESN’T need to hide it, but instead embrace it.
During the "First Time in Forever" sequence, a couple of characters from Disney's Tangled could be briefly seen. If you haven't seen it yet then you should.
I never understood how Hans could charge Elsa with treason in HER kingdom. It would have been totally within her power to condemn her own sister to death, if she wanted to.
The trolls literally told them in the opening sequence. The leader said "fear will be her enemy". It's a really strong portrayal of how if you attempt to shelter your kids to that degree, and never let them be themselves or *feel their feelings*, they will grow up terrified of themselves, their true selves, and of their feelings! Rather than mastering them, they will be master by them, and a slave to them. It's unbelievably awful. Oh, wait, did I start talking about myself just there? *sigh*
I love watching people watch this movie for the first time ☺️ Seeing their reactions makes me laugh and seeing people love my favorite movie without the bias of “it was overplayed” makes me even happier 🥰
"Fear will be your enemy" "Let's make our daughter completely terrified of her powers!" The movie is cute, but those are the worst parents in Disney history XD
11:40 Actually, when snow covers the ground but it's sunny, it is actually a good idea to wear sunscreen. Because what happens is the snow reflects the sun and the you get double the sun rays. You can actually get sunburned pretty bad being outside for long periods of time on a snow covered day with no clouds. EDIT: By the way you should consider watching Frozen 2 also. The first was such a smash hit it was hard to live up to but I think I actually prefer the second one. It's underrated IMO.
As a Canadian.. hearing Alex repeatedly call a fckin reindeer a moose hurt my soul lmao
Same 😂
To be fair, Sven is about four times the size of an actual reindeer.
Right there with you as an Alaskan lol
as Finn, i feel your pain
He is the size of a moose. He is way bigger than a regular reindeer.
I’m SO GLAD you commented on Olaf being willing to melt to keep Anna warm. I’ve always said that that should’ve been a good enough act of love
Probably has something to do with him being a creation. Sentient, yes, but still a creation of magic. Maybe the rules of the idea over "true love" being a cure don't work with magical creations? Maybe because it was from the same source of magic/same person as the magic that was killing her?
Idk. I think Olaf's purpose there is exposition to get you thinking about other love besides romantic love. But it's easy enough to figure why his love for Anna didn't work.
@@Galiant2010 I Guess the fact that Elsa can respawn an exact copy of Olaf, while still still being Olaf, has a part on It
My interpretation was that the act of love had to come from Anna because it was HER heart that was freezing. She needed to be the one to commit an act of true love so that her own love would burn away the cold.
Maybe not that but olof was the hero of the film he saved Anna and gets her to go out and helps her escape. MVP
@@theeternalshade2981Huh 🤔. Never thought of it that way. You made a great point.
Bro knows 10 synonyms for the word gooch but doesnt know what coronation is
It's not that surprising. The guy apparently was a lawyer but he doesn't know what B and E stands for ...
Probably because they have no such thing in the US.
@@ZPNDGYou must be like 16 if you think he's like 22. He's obviously in his 30's.
It's the green
@@ZPNDG he doesn't even look 22 are you ok
The trolls: don't let her feel fear or else bad things will happen
Her parents: got it, make her live in constant fear until she dies
Troll leader and her parents were idiots. Completely agree.
@@tabathacarruthers5122 The troll meant they should love her and teach her to be brave, it was her parents who took the basic human " strange things must be bad" attitude.
@@tabathacarruthers5122 troll was completely fine..
Except he didn't say that. All he said was "fear will [be] her enemy."
The parents just assumed (as many would and the kingdom displays) that it would be the fear of others.
Given the "cure" was to seal all Ana's memories I can still see how they'd think that way
I find it very hard to give the trolls the benefit of the doubt as they literally kidnap Christof as a child. He is raised an orphan, but it isn't clear if he wasn't taken from his father after the day's work or if he was an orphan. He was raised by the trolls. So when the trolls propose altering memory to conceal, why is it strange to think the parents would follow suite? Of course it was the wrong decision. The villains of the movie are the parents and the trolls. Hans is just a random twist villain chosen at a crisis moment who until then was beneficial to all those around him.
Seeing him think this was France was the most painful thing ever
There's nothing French about it 😂😂😂it's Norwegian.
You’ll be ok 👍
@@Gorgotty No. My life is forever changed now. I can never be happy knowing Alex thinks France is Norway. The French can’t keep getting away with this
Plot twist, that was his unpopular opinion
Only white people would be mad at that
I've watched Frozen a few times when I was younger but rewatching it now just made me realize that Anna has absolutely ZERO survival instincts 😂
I don't know man, she literally fought wolves and an ice monster. She saved Kristoff from the precipice and braved the cold to find her sister the first time and a second time to save her. She has some good instincts. The only problem is that she has been isolated from the rest of the world for too long and she remains naive and gives her trust to the wrong people 😗
@@manaphy72she gives me “gullible until things get intense” trope. And she also does a LOT more in frozen 2
Zero social survival instincts, 100% Joan of Arc protege.
Kristoff has ZERO survival instinct you mean
The parents should have sent Elsa to Charles Xavier’s school. Problem solved.
Hishe
haha
Iceman meet Ice Maiden lol
I know you got that from hishe
Ahh I get that reference
The parents don't ask Elsa what happened. They assume that she lost control, which she didn't. The girls were playing, Elsa slipped and fell, and was trying to keep Anna from getting hurt when she accidentally shot her with ice. That is not the same thing at all. Elsa and Anna were completely fine up until that point. You cannot completely flip how you parent because one bad thing happened. Life isn't perfect. People make mistakes. Especially kids. I've never liked this plot point. This is terrible.
okay but there are absolutely plenty of parents who do this exact thing, so it's actually a fairly realistic plot point
You realize it’s showing that it’s wrong to behave the way the parents did right?
Why would you dislike a plot point that is teaching an important lesson you agree with? 🤔
It’s realistic. Parents (including myself) overreact to things sometimes. The straw that broke the camels back sorta thing. Remaining composed can be difficult.
It’s terrible because the characters have flaws?
Ppl taking this shit too seriously
If I recall correctly, about 60-70% of Olaf's dialogue was improvised on the fly, even the gags, and they were recorded pretty early in the production process so the animation team had to just roll with whatever he said in the recording booth and create the visuals to match it
Josh Gad is pretty dang funny.
Wonder if he was also busy with Beauty and the Beast at this time? Or other movies
Going into this movie, I thought I wouldn't like Olaf... I'm glad I was wrong. (-:
Pretty much 100% ofbthebdoalog has to be locked before animation can start or else they keep having to start over for every change.
Voicelines always come way before animation, that's standard. Animators match the VA's lines
To add to the Hans hate, I feel like you should know a statue of him gets absolutely destroyed in Big Hero 6 by Baymax in Fred's garden, when he shows off his rocket fist for the first time. It's sort of a blink-and-you'll-miss-it thing.
I agree about the parents. They told her not to fear her magic but all they did was reinforce that fear by keeping her away from her sister and telling her not to use her magic. They should have encouraged her to practice her magic instead - start small and build up so she could learn how to control it. Take measures to keep everyone safe, of course, but don't lock her and her magic away. All they did was make her fear herself and her magic more.
I agree 100%
Yeah … they did about 180˚ opposite of what the trolls actually suggested :-/
Exactly! They do seem like they are genuinely good people, but the way they handled how Elsa should conceal her powers is so messed up. They literally made her afraid of herself.
Luckily, their attitude gets explained in the sequel
@@MrGBH yeah thank God for that.
28:32 Fun fact, the giant snowman's name is Marshmallow
Justice for Marshmallow! He’s just doing his best.
Lowkey my 6yr old niece loves him and draws pictures of herself and him playing together to show he’s nice. It’s very cute.
He's also got a cameo in Moana! ❤
@@lka9900 i think that actually shows a lot of emotional intelligence on her part, that she doesn't thnk of him as "evil" just because he was at odds with the heroes of the story. sounds like a sweet kid.
@ she also has a particular fondness for a black plastic lifesize Halloween rat. So she might just be punk rock haven’t decided 😉 yea she’s pretty great, we are all pretty fond of her
@lka9900 Weirdly Marshmallow did get to be the extra party member for Arendelle in Kingdom Hearts 3, so at least he got some recognition there.
Not Elsa, Anna, Kristoff or even Olaf. Everywhere else it's the main character of the film that joins Sora, Donald and Goofy but for Frozen it's Marshmallow.
I saw him looking at Elsa , and I was like, "OH NO"
“Fair Game!” 😂😂😂
you cant say anything. shes 21
Lol, Why "OH NO"?
@@leyaeywhat do you mean still. She’s legal age. All of this in theory ofc it being a movie. But when did society start looking down on sexuality towards of age men/women ? Grow up
.... I mean A. she's fictional B. she's over 18 in the majority of the movie and C. she's hot =/ her design is beautiful and meant to be attractive to the eye... like what.
fun fact when i was a kid and saw this in theaters, when anna breathed her last breath after turning to ice there was a small child near the front of the theater who yelled out, in the completely silent room, "THEY KILLED HER!" and it was the funniest thing
The reason why Olaf’s act of true love didn’t save Anna is because Anna had to perform the act of true love. Her heart was frozen by her sister, literally and figuratively, so the sacrifice had to demonstrate forgiveness and self-sacrifice on Anna’s part for Elsa.
Yes! I love this aspect of the movie. Sister love!!!
I almost spilled my cup of water with the "IS THIS LET IT BE?"
OMFG I just realized that Hans looks up at the chandelier before aiming the guard's crossbow "away" from Elsa... and at the lights😮
I think assuming it was intentional is a bit of a stretch. It'd be a trick enough shot even with proper shooting form. He was grabbing someone's arm who was likely resisting and at an odd angle. It does look like Hans is looking at it, but when he grabs the guy his finger isn't even on the trigger (yes, I went back and did a frame by frame lol), it's the guy Elsa has pinned. Hans has no way of knowing if/when the guy would even pull the trigger.
@Galiant2010 True, perhaps he wasn't assuming the entire thing wouldn't be taken down by a random shot and it was just a safe direction to divert the crossbow? Either way, very surprised that I missed that after watching so many times lol
It was definitely intentional. He could easily take down Elsa with looking he was trying save her. Putting the kingdom on his side even more
tbh i think everyone in this thread is half right. he probably recognized distantly that aiming it away in that direction could backfire, and he was completely okay with that but he def wasn't skilled enough to make an actual effort to do it. it was probably more of a "eh, if it hits the chandelier, who cares"
basically a lucky coincidence
I think Elsa's fear and solitude is warranted though. Considering it was reinforced by her parents as well. Completely understandable
Mmm, hot gløgg.
I see people recommending "Tangled", and I second that. Also, "Atlantis, the lost empire", "The emperor's new grove", and the entire Ghibli library 😃 "The emperor's new grove" has my favorite villain duo😂
Edit: The Emperor's new Groove. Lolol. Not grove.
@@HolyFudgeBalls I totally agree with the tangled idea
He should also do Treasure Planet
Pull the lever, Kronk!
Tangled is great!
Also Atlantis is severely underappreciated
Agree with tangled and emperor's new groove.
I love you dude. And I don't know how much you're paying your editor, but it's not enough. They are killing it.
I was about to say. Hilarious editing
7:49 fun fact Alex, in the original storyline for Frozen, Elsa was supposed to be a villain. There’s a children’s book (I think it’s a children’s book OR it’s folklore) & it’s called The Snow Queen. In that original story, Elsa is evil.
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Also, Elsa was originally designed with short, black spikey hair
@@richardcates1108 that too~! 😁👍🏻
Would’ve been better tbh
The Snow Queen by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.
Yeah. They originally wrote her as a villain. But when they wrote Let It Go they realized it felt too triumphant, too much of a protagonist song, so they changed Elsa to a good guy.
The Princess and the Frog is super underrated. They went back to the original animation style, it looks amazing
One of the reasons this film was so popular was that it dispersed with the classic Disney princess idea of being saved by a Prince. The sisters saved each other and saved themselves.
That was massive for moms brought up with the classic message of needing a man to save you and we were thrilled to make sure our daughters (and sons) received that message loud and clear.
Completely agree, I really liked that.
I think it's part of why Mulan will always be the best Disney movie for me, she rescues him... and all of China 😂!!
Also the "act of true love" came from Anna herself. It was something she did, not something done to her.
Brave and Mulan exist
Fun fact gloves in this movie portray hiding your true self, first with Elsa and then Hans do this
*Elsa's parents locking her away and separating her from society, telling her to suppress herself, that she's dangerous and bad, so she becomes a recluse to protect everyone else. *
Alex: That kind of parenting causes problems
Also Alex: Elsa shouldn't have cowered away in fear her whole life
By the way her parents reacted, she internalized "I almost killed my sister" her whole life. There's no way she doesn't have MAJOR PTSD.
That's what I'm saying, he talks about the bad parenting and then turns around and shxts on her the whole time. Like ofcourse shes's running away sh's been made out to be a dangerous monster by her parents.
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It's actually an interesting debate. Her parents were absolutely at fault for being bad parents, but adults also have to be responsible for their own actions. And she also did the same thing to Anna! Which is why Anna was so desperate to get married - to be able to get out from under the "protection" of Elsa. You don't let child abusers off the hook just because they were abused by their parents. When reaching adulthood, at some point you have to become responsible for your own actions. So both things can be true: her parents did serious harm to her with their decisions, but she also bears responsibility for her own choices as an adult. And while she made some good decisions (telling Anna, no you can't marry someone you just met), she also made bad decisions (keeping Anna locked up just like her).
bro constantly contracticts himself lol
I never liked how Elsa's royal parents told her to hinder and push away her abilities, instead of embracing them and improving her strategy to control it and not let her fear overwhelm her. Like a shoddy dam in a stormy river, the more the storm increases its pour, the more stronger the current goes, the more weak the restraint becomes even if it is reinforced or tightened cause everything has a limit, that impediment will break, the water built up will force through in a torrent the results following will not be pretty.
Well think about it Alex, Elsa's parents told her to hide it as a kid, made her feel bad for accidentally hurting Anna and she hid herself away. When they died, nothing changed in the fact that she hid her power, but she was getting stronger and scared of what she could do. Elsa wasn't trying to hurt Anna, it just happened out of fear.
I feel like Elsa gets a lot of hate like Elsa shouldn't run or she's a coward but it's like how was she suppose to overcome her fear if she was never taught how? She has literally never known anything else. It's like when people tell abuse victims to just leave their circumstance. It's just not that simple. And I mean maybe I'm taking this too seriously but I don't hear enough about how she's literally a victim of her environment and upbringing.
I remember watching frozen back in highschool, it's a good movie and I really liked it. Especially the ending of Anna's sacrifice being the act of love and not the typical Disney prince stuff, but I loathe how frozen is STILL everywhere over a decade later
Tbf Frozen 2 was pretty legit and brought it back. I like it more than the original.
@@lka9900 I have yet to see it. I don't watch movies too often lol
@@springdeerling7866 I have three nieces so I’ve seen it dozens of times lol the songs are bangers and the storyline has fewer plot holes and broader range of emotions. It’s pretty good.
@@lka9900
Same. Frozen 2 is really good and I’m tired of people hating on it for no reason.
This movie is in almost every Disney on Ice and it's always the same and boring
The beginning foreshadows the entire movie perfectly when they was small and having fun Elsa was in control she lost control when she tripped and Anna jumped, Elsa then got scared and lost control, she had never hurt anyone before and she hurt the person she loved the most putting her fear into effect making her lose all control, she needed Anna the whole time, the parents SHOULD NOT have separated them
I know where we have to go.
"The SUN?"
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The gloves did not keep Elsa's powers contained, it was to make her believe it, so the ice would have less effect
yeah it's more like a mental thing
"You must learn to control it. Fear will be your enemy,"
"OK, so we should lock her away and teach her to fear & never practice her powers?"
"do you wanna build a meth lab?" best parody ever
Being stared at by that goose for thirty minutes is unsettling...
I actually never even considered that Olaf's act with the fireplace should've broken the curse...
Dudes taking all these side quests until we get back to Transformers
thats what I was thinking
He hasnt watched Matrix 2, 3 and (probably shouldnt)4.
And also Daredevil season 2
I’m still waiting for him to finish the star wars movies 😂
Waiting for the banger seasons of clone wars
It’s because he’s watched all transformers has to offer
There is a conversation to be had about repressed, shall we say feeling? Because Elsa goes from frigid queen to smoldering snow princess in 5 seconds once she let's go of the self repression. And suddenly is extremely good at making very flirtatious faces and body language.
Yeah, she could finally be herself at the end of the movie. Her parents didn't only make her repress her magic but her emotions and feelings too, since they're connected to her magic
0:30 my name is pronounced as a goose I have never feared in my life as much as I did at that moment
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My most fond memory of the Frozen soundtrack: singing Love is an Open Door with my coworkers during a blackout
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who had Frozen sing alongs with coworkers. Ours was Let it Go, but we remixed it to Let Her Go based on our mutual hatred for a horrendous manager that had recently started at our location. 😂
The troll edits were crazy.
15:20 seriously?? what in the toxic masculinity was that Alex??
Glad someone else saw it, who even uses the word Pansey anymore? jeesh lol
That shocked me when he said that.
Bruh the drowning his sister bit absolutely destroyed me. Matter of fact this might be Alex's funniest reaction 😂😂😂😂😂
Agreed I choked on my chipotle
I was eating pizza, chocked then spat it up. like wtf hahaha 😂😂😂 brilliant
Encanto and Tangled next. Trust me
Yes
Alex's version of 'Let it go' is definitely not something I was expecting to hear today 😂
When this film came out it was a refreshing new take that dealt with topics not really explored too much in young adult/ Disney films. Such as not knowing the different types of love that people can feel for one another. And having the main character save herself/ have the main plot focus around sisterly love after parental neglect felt like a new focus at the time. Also, them focusing on rushing relationships felt like it was treating the younger viewers more like young adults was a nice departure from watering down certain topics. And of course, all the songs, and side characters people loved too which is why it was #1 for so long.
I feel like Frozen was the last Disney film I saw in theaters actually. I'm more of an anime person than an animated film person though so we typically watch these types of films at home. I think Wall-E and How To Train Your Dragon were some of the only other animated films we watched in theaters. We tend to watch Pixar in theaters more than Disney.
My husband and I look like siblings. People would think we were brother and sister. We sometimes feel we are basically different gender versions of the same person. It's kinda creepy how perfectly we match up. Been together 20 years so, yeah...we are perfect for each other. 😅
Frozen Heart (the first song) is really underrated IMO
Definitely need to react to Tangled 😍
Fun fact about trolls in Scandinavian mythology, there is lore that they steal children and replace them with troll babies. Changelings is the term for the swapped babies. So when the troll at the beginning of the movie said she was going to keep young Kristoff I was like NOOOOOOO!
Gentle reminder to be aware of your own toxic masculinity, Christoff is a delightful guy who also happens to be comfortable with being vulnerable. Check your biases my guy lol
I'm so glad someone said this.
Hans is seriously one of the most “realistically” EVIL Disney villains, in my personal opinion.
A person that effortlessly manipulative on someone so innocent for personal gain is truly terrifying.
10:16 Alex on the most known Disney song of all-time "IS THIS LET IT BE ?!"
When you realize how little love she must have felt all these years growing up, in order to not realize love and warm feelings cause her icy creations to melt...
The lyrics:
“You…”
“…and I …”
So he referred to her and she referred to herself also 😅
"Is that Moanna?" perfectly sums up the current state of Disney
You have to watch Tangled after this. Top tier Disney! ❤
They're actually in this movie - for a hot second
Hey Alex! I'm super happy to see your reaction to Frozen!
Rewatching through your eyes actually made me realize why this movie was such a massive hit with kids when it first came out, and why it's become a classic.
It turns a lot of tropes on it's head, has pleasant surprises and the female characters have flaws but are strong in their own right.
Anna is a fucking G, and Elsa once she accepts her powers is a strong reminder to feel all of our emotions without letting them control US. Great lessons for kids, and the sister bond being the true love spell breaker was such a good move.
Would love to see you react to the second one :)
I just realized this but when Anna says to one of the paintings, “Hang in there, Joan.” That painting is supposed to be Joan of Arc.
Alex, you're saying Elsa doesn't deserve love? you tried to off your own sister while EIsa tries to protect everyone from herself. plus, after she 'covers in fear', she takes time to master her powers and build a friggin castle.
Hans was a terrible twist villain not because it was too obvious, or that the twist didn't shock, but that it shocked for the wrong reason. That reason being that he hardly was a villain. He was a perfectly upstanding character prior with absolutely NOTHING negative surrounding him prior, a good dude who saved Elsa, did this, did that, etc. Yet he just suddenly out of nowhere decided "Actually nah, I'm evil now!". If he wanted Elsa dead, why not let the other guy shoot her when he had the chance? He was going to anyway, and Ana would have still god along and married him if he didn't do the whole evil schtick, so even with the motivation they gave him it feels illogical. Really he just feels like he shouldn't have been a villain. I guess he hit his head at some point off screen and had his personality shifted on itself.
i disagree, even prior to that there were signs of his plan. he is just pretending to be that "perfect" person
@@zelbayanym That's fair. I do agree there were definitely hints of it, but I also still feel there are holes in it all the same(again, depending on when he decided it would be the best idea to kill Elsa, why not let that guy shoot her with the crossbow? No blood on his hands, can still marry Ana and become king.. I dunno, he just seemed too perfect in a way that it almost wasn't? He seemed too legit, I suppose, that it felt less like a twist villain to me and more like "oh, he just decided to turn evil now.". Iirc, I heard that they originally were debating on giving him a redemption arc in the second film before they scratched the idea. Probably because he really didn't feel that evil overall until near the end during the switch up. I do agree however there were signs, I'm just not sure if for me personally they were enough to constitute that he was well done since other things still feel contradictory.
There is a theory that he actually was a good guy but the trolls cursed him so Kristoff would end up with Anna, they cursed the competition.
5:30 I mean, if you are to believe the fan theories, Anna & Elsa's parents didn't die during the storm, but shipwrecked on an island where they had a third kid, which would be Tarzan, only to later die to jungle cats.
Man, the start of that Tarzan movie feels like the premise to a Man vs Nature horror film.
Like Jaws, or that Florida flooding Aligator movie Crawlspace.
Imagine surviving an awful wreck like that, only to get killed a big f--k-off-cat.
Frozen 2 pretty much debunked this theory but it was fun to consider for a while
@@RubyMadigan Never liked that theory. Glad the sequel debunked it.
I still just can't believe the fact he's never seen this extremely popular movie in the 10 years that it's been out for.
29:10- I agree with you. This movie is pretty simple and cannot compete with 90s Disney classics. For me this doesn't get even at the bottom of Top 10.
I enjoyed Frozen. Sue me.
Frozen was also unique among Disney animated movies. It's the first one where the princesses are adults.
Tiana was nineteen in her film.
rapunzel was 18, cinderella was 19, tiana was 19, pocahontas was 18. try again
Honestly, men have a very different idea of what's manly than what I do, because I thought kristoff was the manliest man. And when I saw the second movie, I was already an adult, but Kristoff is just a really awesome male Disney character. Out of every single Disney movie, I'm confident that he is my favorite male counterpart
Frozen is the first Disney movie that features a Disney princes who is not saved by a prince. True love is sibling love, not lovers.
Your rant on parenting is my favourite bit. so true. as a parent myself, I try so hard to keep from sheltering my kids too much and letting them be more independant as they grow
2:13 moose?! that's a freaking reindeer!!
Love your videos! super sorry about the following long comment 😅
Watching this film today makes all of Alex's comments super valid. But since this film was made in 2016 when Inside Out didn't exist yet, there was no predecessor to the following messages of "not marrying someone you just met", "Anxiety can be dealt with in healthier ways", and "the Male Lead can be more than just manly" - which is why Hans was manly and Christoph was softer". Even the ending kiss when Christoph asked for Anna's consent was a new-age lesson since no disney film existed with that subtle message.
I think the way Anna and Elsa both turned out was the only way they were going to turn out without their parents having made better decisions/actually letting Elsa learn how to use her powers. There was no way for Elsa to have the epiphany of "Oh I don't have to listen to fear" since the last time she ACTIVELY used her powers she had hurt her sister who was everything to her back then and she never had external validation/encouragement that she could learn to use them. And yes the parents should not have interpreted the Troll's words to mean they should isolate their kid.
Now there is something else to clarify; their parents weren't overprotecting Elsa which is why that isn't one of the lessons the film was trying to make. Elsa's parents weren't trying to shield her because they were hoping to keep her from negative feelings, they truly thought suppressing the magic meant there would be less of a chance that OTHERS would fear her. Magic was clearly not common and just like how everyone reacted when they saw Elsa's magic it makes sense why the parents would think hiding it was the only solution. Reality is like that too; someone does something new that is considered strange, usually they are ostracized or told to keep it to themselves (almost every Autistic or ADHD child would have experienced this before getting tested). AGAIN the parents' decision to suppress their kid is not the healthier or correct choice! But yeah, there is a difference between shielding and suppressing (I guess stifling would be somewhere in the middle??)
I really enjoy your reactions but I was truly baffled at all the mysogynistic jokes about Kristoff, I thought we had left those behind in the 2010s
Literally I'm shocked no one's talking about it, "he's not a man" I'm sorry??
It Def took away from the reaction for me too. I enjoyed the rest of it but almost left bc of those comments. It's really sad how many boys are raised thinking that feeling their feelings is bad.
There's this whole "man" movement going on in the US. Gotta be a red-pilled, "Alpha" that spends half their time in the gym or you aren't a man. That's how we ended up with our new president.
I almost spit out my drink when you said "it this let it be?" That was great, thanks Alex
As an Alaskan, that is a TINY ass moose.
Christoph a man which life revolves around ice gets teary eyes when seeing a cathedral out of ice and runs away from a giant ice ogre - Alex: "What a wuss"
literally!!
Its not a Disney movie, but every kid and parent should see it just because its hell of a fun. El Dorado. The next one is Prince of Egypt of course and for me the best movie from Disney that depics cruel reality of old times is Hunchback of Notre dame. Excelent story and one of most terrifing and most realistic villain of all time.
He will die with El Dorado 😂😂😂😂😂 the sexual undertones omg xD I'd love to see it
@@MsAriesQueenomg yes😂
Hunchback is total meh, imo. That and Pocahontas.
@gokaury hunchback was meh to me too but I loved pocahontas. But I've always been a nature girl at heart so I think that's why it speaks to me
Gotta praise it, your sense of humor bought me QUICK.
This video started with some impressively fast paced jokes there, and I appreciate it.
"Drown him like I almost did my sister" LMAO well okay then. 🤣🤣
Your editing is amazing! 😂
16:02 We all thought it the first time we saw it
10:33 it’s a representation of Elsa’s trauma from the moment she froze Anna, she’s been born with this thing that has the potential to cause harm, and she’s unable to control it. And with the advice her parents gave her she believes the only thing she can do is surpress it - which by the end of the movie she learns that she CAN take control of it and DOESN’T need to hide it, but instead embrace it.
"I know where we have to go."
"To the Sun?"
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During the "First Time in Forever" sequence, a couple of characters from Disney's Tangled could be briefly seen. If you haven't seen it yet then you should.
20:32 You can NOT convince me he does not know.
Just a single emotional breakdown froze all of Arundel over in one night
LORD OF THE RINGS WHEN!
Needs to happen ❤
Next year
This kunt needs to start reacting to PITCH MEETINGS first
I never understood how Hans could charge Elsa with treason in HER kingdom. It would have been totally within her power to condemn her own sister to death, if she wanted to.
I’ve actually mentioned this to other reactors that watched this film before that the white streak in Anna’s hair reminds me of Rogue from the X-Men.
Great...except her name is "Rogue".
My bad. I misspelled her name. I fixed it now though.
The trolls literally told them in the opening sequence. The leader said "fear will be her enemy". It's a really strong portrayal of how if you attempt to shelter your kids to that degree, and never let them be themselves or *feel their feelings*, they will grow up terrified of themselves, their true selves, and of their feelings! Rather than mastering them, they will be master by them, and a slave to them. It's unbelievably awful.
Oh, wait, did I start talking about myself just there? *sigh*
Please put the Wild Robot on the next poll. Fantastic movie to teach kids the cruel beauty of death
"fair game... in terms of jokes" ALEX YOU ARE PLAYING WITH FIRE
YEES FROZEN!!! NORWAY!!!! MY DAUGHTERS ARE OBSESSED. And myself I like it.
I love watching people watch this movie for the first time ☺️
Seeing their reactions makes me laugh and seeing people love my favorite movie without the bias of “it was overplayed” makes me even happier 🥰
"Fear will be your enemy"
"Let's make our daughter completely terrified of her powers!"
The movie is cute, but those are the worst parents in Disney history XD
Shoutout to the editor here! Stellar job on this video!
29:30 Elsa’s hair goes through her arm here 😮
get out and step some grass bro XD
@@joetudesky2228 damn why so rude
11:40 Actually, when snow covers the ground but it's sunny, it is actually a good idea to wear sunscreen. Because what happens is the snow reflects the sun and the you get double the sun rays. You can actually get sunburned pretty bad being outside for long periods of time on a snow covered day with no clouds. EDIT: By the way you should consider watching Frozen 2 also. The first was such a smash hit it was hard to live up to but I think I actually prefer the second one. It's underrated IMO.
4:09 bro the jumpscare 😂😂😭
I just laughed when I saw that Alex the Troll Doll picture 😂
I cackled 😂😂😂
16:03 My mom and I sing this exact line every time 😂 No matter how many times we've heard this song, we still don't ever think of the word "snow."
Editor needs a raise
Yeah, he probably listens to the stuff Alex says and is like, I don't get paid enough for this sh*t. lol
He can't he's trapped in Alex's basement.
It's too late for him.
@@Watcherobot 😂😂 facts
Locking Elsa up and making her scared to hurt anyone is the worst thing they could possibly have done to help her.