#yeeeeaaaaaahhhhh

[spiritbees]

oh GOD IT'S ALL OVER THE SCREEN

it'S EVERYWHERE

[fathermulcahyofficial]

Train fight train fight train fight

[calamity-lives-on]

GOT MY MUSIC WORKING

[thexostranger]

Misadventures in Destiny: death and cliffs. So much reviving.

[indigobluerose]

39 year old woman taking her dolls to Starbucks.

[bshadez-blog]

Video: First time seeing the snowman. #Yeeeeaaaaaahhhhh

[theyuseifan]

Your friend comes back from the dead

Now they’re just zombody you used to know

[cviperfan]

I WAS (at the movies and saw) FROZEN TODAY

I have some mixed feelings about what it COULD have been to be sure, but on its own terms... yeah, it's very good.  It'll probably take Best Animated Feature more or less uncontested.  It's a good companion piece to what "Enchanted" kind of started as examining Disney's orthodoxy (though "Enchanted was more of a light parody with some wrinkles), and shares some of "Brave's" elements of re-examining what's important in the context being put on display in Princess movies.  

I appreciated how much the Anna/Elsa relationship really was the core of the entire thing and was never cheapened or moved aside for the sake of Teh Romance; I appreciated especially how the romance itself was handled, also this was co-directed and written by women which I'm super-glad to see, and I appreciate that the reading of Elsa as a queer character-- while not necessarily beyond the shadow of a doubt and certainly will never actually be confirmed by Disney-- has some actual weight to it and is possibly even intentional.  Music is also really solid, "Let It Go" being the easy standout but there's some other good numbers that are really identifiable as Robert Lopez's work-- I'm actually kind of surprised how well he adapts over to Disney from, well, Avenue Q and Book of Mormon, actually.  Even the snowman isn't that bad.

I can't help but be a little saddened that it changed so much from the original concept, but then Disney's never really done 1:1 adaptations in the first place, and to be perfectly honest the people who WOULD make that version of The Snow Queen would be Laika, and it would be fucking incredible but no one would see it.

It also would have lost nothing from having more diversity in character terms, and especially more female characters.  It's kind of the Korra problem of 'our lead is female so we've pretty much covered ourselves' except the writing is, well, good.  

Overall Disney, I feel like ya coulda dun better in this regard.

That said, I think that what we got IS still worth seeing and worth supporting, because while I feel like a company as old and as fundamental for several generations of people as Disney is can certainly try harder on really basic stuff like representation, I'm also really happy with the core message and what the movie finds important to say to its target audience, because animated movies where female relationships are the Most Important Thing and worth fighting for are super rare and I want them to know that they at least succeeded there.