Okay, but not great. Mostly a flat, uneventful 102 minutes

Rating: 6/10 (13 July 2016)

I found this movie to be flat. I sat there at the end, asking myself, "this the supposed 'greatest movie Disney's ever made?' Because I don't get it." I wholeheartedly do not agree it's anywhere near the top of the pile. Maybe above Cars? It made tons of money, but being successful and being critically-acclaimed are two completely different things.
Almost all Disney movies, starting with Snow White, have been able to appeal to both children and adults alike. This movie looks like it would, too, but it's not. It's for kids, girls, to be specific. It's not even a good representation of Anderson's, "Snow Queen." It comes close to disrespecting it.
The opening is the best part of the movie, when Elsa and Anna are playing. It's mostly downhill from there. The villains are one-dimensional, they aren't even scary villains, except for Hans, for like, a second.
The animation is not great. That was the biggest disappointment of it all for me. The "heroines" were, well, strange looking. I got the feeling they created characters that would be easy to make into dolls, and as we know, that's where the REAL money is. They could've done INCREDIBLE animation with turning things into ice. I was not impressed.
I also wasn't impressed with the music, the only song I felt was Disney-worthy was, "Do You Want to Build a Snowman." I'm not a fan of "Let It Go," only the chorus is really worth it, the rest of the song is, well, boring. The other songs were 100% unnecessary and muddied the story line. Way, way too much music.
I don't know why they chose Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel to do the speaking voices. Bell's "always sarcastic" way of speaking was inappropriate for Anna, but her singing voice was sweet, (although I heard Veronica Mars or Gossip Girl as Anna when she spoke). She does too many important voice-overs to be believable as a different character without changing her voice.
And—Menzel is not a voice actor! She just ISN'T. Flat, flat, flat. And she mumbles, always, on stage and now, here. Had a hard time understanding her. (ENUNCIATE, IDINA. You're not only a singer!) I would've preferred really good voice actors to those two (like the children they used for young Anna and Elsa). I also have a problem with using a different singer for "Let It Go" for the credits! What?!? I have to say, I think Demi Lovato should have been Elsa from the get go, no clue why they didn't use her, and you could've used Ariel Winter as Anna, two Disney veterans. Just bad, bad casting for these important female leads in this movie. They could've made it contemporary, but they chose to use 40-somethings to play teenagers. Yes, they kind of sound like little girls, but here, I think, they were wrong for the parts.
There were some light and funny moments in the movie and all of them were from Sven, Kristoff and Olaf. Sven and Kristoff were good characters, Sven had most of the laughs in the movie, he was also very endearing, and for me, the highlight of the movie. Olaf was okay, he was cute and sweet, very much for the toddlers.
The script was mediocre, the dialogue, atrocious. Too many colloquialisms, slang, quips/insults. I was shocked. They could've fleshed the story out a bit more, it glossed over many things. They did NOTHING for Elsa's character, again, a one-dimensional character in the lead position, whereas Sven had more depth.
In closing, I gave it a 6 because it's worth seeing, if merely as a dividing line between great movies like Finding Dory, Inside Out and Toy Story 3, and Frozen. Maybe Disney and their "princesses" are just passé. Maybe, Disney, without Pixar, is, as well.