You: OMG I love Frozen!
Me, an intellectual: While the film has some fantastic animation and lovely songs (sans the hideously overplayed "Let It Go"), it suffers from a clear production rush and its plot makes very little sense. Hans' character development was rushed and sloppy. He claims he hopes to woo Anna and murder Elsa in order to ascend to the throne as king, but he saves Elsa's life earlier in the film even when no one would have questioned her being killed by the guards she was attacking. He also smiles at Anna when she's not even looking, rules Arendale faithfully in her absence-serving the cold and poor subjects and protecting them from treason by the Duke of Wesselton, and generally behaves with nothing but kindness and goodness until the last 15 minutes of the film. It's painfully obvious that his turn to evil was a cheap "twist" decided at the last stages of production after they shied away from making Elsa the villain.
On top of that, the origin of the magic and how the rock trolls fit into things is barely explained and ends up creating more questions than it answers. Where did Elsa get her powers? Why do the trolls know all about it? Why does the troll leader ask if Elsa was "born or cursed" with the magic? What is the difference? Why doesn't he give more clear instructions to Elsa's parents about how to control the magic? Why does Anna need to be prevented from knowing of the magic even as an adult? There's also no real explanation as to the scope of Elsa's powers. They range from icy blasts to intricate castle building to dressmaking to creating sentient life. This has incredible ramifications and yet is never truly explained. In the "Frozen Fever" short, it's revealed that every time Elsa sneezes when she has a cold, she creates tiny sentient lifeforms by the dozens. ??? Did the writers not feel there was any need to address this?
