Disney has done it again

Rating: 8/10 (18 February 2014)

Finally watched Frozen. Prior to watching I found all the songs people were singing rather annoying, but now it won't be annoying. In fact it will be a nail through the heart of the pure musicality the movie presents. By far one of the better Disney soundtrack. (Fun fact the song at the beginning to the movie at first doesn't seem to fit the movie at all, until you listen to the words. The lyrics of the first song basically foreshadow the entire movie). While Wreck-it-Ralph and Tangled were fair and decent displays of Disney's modern animation capabilities, Frozen by far has definitely surpassed the display of it's predecessors while keeping it's recognizable unique style. Plot kept me interested through out the movie and there weren't any real parts I could have guessed. SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT. While there were some parts I saw I could only think "this will not end well" I was never able to truly guess exactly how it would turn out. With few holes and an emotional climax, it was well developed. My only real issue with the plot is I feel it could have been drawn out more and expressed in deeper detail. The characters in Frozen were generally well developed, but a bit more of a back story on Christof would have been desirable (all I really know about him is he was an orphan raised by people on Garry's mod with nothing better to do, and he sells ice and has a distaste for people). Casting isn't really my biggest concern other than I felt the chosen cast did their job excellently. As far as movies go, it was great. Well thought out with amazing writing and plot.
So as far as my meaningless rating that carries no real weight due to the fact I am not an officially licensed or trusted critic I'll give a 8 out of 10. It was great, but definitely had a little more room for character development (Hans is a jerk), and a longer slightly deeper plot would have put this in the 9 zone. Personally my favorite thing about Frozen was it's soundtrack. I'm not one for musicals and I'll be honest a few of the songs were just waaaaaaaaay to close together, but they were well written and gave more life to a great movie. Generally I give soundtracks their own separate rating due to the fact that sometimes there are terrible movies with amazing soundtracks, and great movies with disgusting soundtracks.
I'll finish up by throwing in some of my personal favorites:
Favorite character: Most people jump straight for Olaf, but I'm going to have to say mine was Elsa. She was probably one of the characters that perfectly displayed emotion and thoughts. The entire time I could feel the tension between her and the rest of the world and most of all her feeling of being trapped by something that got out of hand. The mirrored emotions I got from her character just wouldn't justify me favoring any other character.
Favorite part: The part that wowed me the most was the construction of the super ice castle of awesomeness. My second favorite part would have to be Hans getting decked in the face.
Favorite song: This is a tricky one... I'll be honest the song that stood out the most has to be "Let it Go". While prior to me seeing the movie I found it aggravating this was my baby sister's song of choice to say the 3 words of the chorus over and over and over again, this song by far was the most well done. That with it being paired with the unbelievable trippy stuff going on with the ice castle of awesome makes it by far the song that everyone remembers. A notable mention would have to be the song at the beginning. That one would have won if it had the length to sustain it.
Oh, and yes I fully understand, this movie was a chick-flic, but a great chick-flic.