Holiday TV Brain Freeze Cartoon

Rating: 4/10 (21 January 2014)

4 of 10. While I was disappointed that Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 didn't live up to the perfection of the original, it was still a solid cartoon film, and had much more realistic animation on water and water-like substances. This, compared to Disney's 2 most recent great cartoons, Tangled and Wreck it Ralph, has little other than solid ice to offer.
Partially rescued by the ending, it is close to boring with some horrible casting/singing/song decisions that no one should have to suffer through cranked up on a theater sound system. I can't imagine anyone went to this to hear a country music musical mixed with a cartoon, yet that's what it sounds like.
Most of the story is template made-for-TV tedium with some impressive ice-related animation and princess costumes to help it at least look beautiful. Most of the snow scenes are impressive too, with 2 important exceptions: melting snow and the snowman that looks like a stuffed toy in the snow.
Better cartoons of the year, roughly in order of beautifullerness: Croods, Monsters, Inc. University, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Escape from Planet Earth, Despicable Me 2. 2013 isn't going down as a classic year to remember for cartoons.