mitsukishiroi replied to your post:.
Why were you mad at Frozen?
There are...a LOT of reasons. Some of it is definitely the lack of diversity and PoCs that is generally a problem in Disney films, but has been brought to the forefront in discussions about this film in particular. And part of it was definitely animator comments about women being "hard to draw because of the number of emotions they show," which was basically bullshit and lazy animators not wanting to expend the same effort on their female characters as their male ones. Or so it seemed from that interview. There was a lot of lack-of-creativity/thinking-outside-the-box going around in the production of this movie, and I was very disappointed that Disney seemed so very unwilling to try something new in their designs.
But mostly, it's the stuff outlined in this spectacular post here (it's a long post, but worth the read). The OP wrote this before the movie came out, but I still agree with a lot of what they say. Disney claims (even in the credits of the movie) that Frozen is "inspired by the Snow Queen" when, in fact, they took everything that makes The Snow Queen awesome and distilled it down into general Disney-approved tropes and erased a lot of female characters and agency and awesomeness. I was--and still am--very angry that almost every female supporting character in the original fairy tale was either made a dude or erased completely. I was--and still am--very angry that they are peddling this story as an adaptation of The Snow Queen, which is a lie, false advertising, and generally insulting to anyone who does actually knows what the fairy tale is about. It's not an adaptation of the Snow Queen; it's a completely new story with completely new characters that takes very basic ideas from the Snow Queen and then twists them into something completely different. And...I was promised the Snow Queen: where is badass little Gerda going off into the blizzard by herself to save her best friend in the whole world, the non-love-interest Kay, from the deliciously villainous and yet still sympathetic Snow Queen? Nowhere to be seen, because Frozen is not the Snow Queen. It's...just not.
That doesn't mean it's bad. As I said, I greatly enjoyed it. I cried a lot though the whole thing because my sister are I are very close and I can very easily relate to the sisterly relationship the movie gives us. The male characters were very well done and it was a poignant, funny, beautiful movie. I really, really did like it. My sister and I are already a little bit desperate to see it again. I loved that platonic, sisterly love was the point of the movie and the ultimate power in the movie, but...there was still an unnecessary romantic subplot and a lot of superfluous male characters and while it was good it was also very safe, and very Disney. And I just wish they would have branched out a bit. It was really beautiful animation with great characters and great music. But...it's not the Snow Queen. And that's why I'm still angry. Because we could have had the Snow Queen. And...we don't.
(Also that fucking snowman was just annoying. I mean, he was funny, but it was a generic sort of funny that was mildly irritating.)