Quality Disney production, maybe a little too much singing

Rating: 7/10 (8 March 2014)

I cannot decide what my problem is with this film. I narrowed it down to 2 possibilities: either 1) there is too much singing and silliness or 2) I am just not 10 years old anymore. I guess it is mostly the latter.
Those who have not seen Frozen probably probably still heard about "Let it go", a song from the movie that went viral on social media. It is a good song and Frozen has several of them, all of which are nice but which, in my opinion, belong on an separately sold album. They are essentially all standalone songs and they take up half of the movie. I don't remember Alladin or Beauty and the Beast being so singy. Frozen is just short of being a musical and I do not like musicals.
The basic story is about a Nordic princess with ice superpowers that end up causing her and her kingdom a lot of trouble as she struggles to control those powers.
What is nice about the plot is that it is not obvious or overly simplistic and the final moral message goes just a bit off the beaten path. The whole thing has a certain welcome asymmetry about it. It borrows somewhat from the Snow Queen fairytale, which was itself not your standard story.
Nothing special about the acting though. It is all good, but a few months after seeing the movie, the only memorable character is the comic relief snowman, Olaf, played by Josh Gad. The rest of the characters are a bit generic. Of course the two male and the two female leads are going to be pretty, their voices smooth and their bodies shaped according to the old-fashioned Disney standards for protagonists. The most memorable thing about them is the singing.
The art is good, probably because it paces itself and knows when to strike the viewer with the money shot in order the make the largest impression. The thing about snow though is that it does not need a lot of texture or color. Of course it poses its own challenges when you have to animate its movement and that is done well.
Frozen is a solid production, but it is not revolutionary.