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Frozen Problems (Other) (Aesthetics (At odds with each other frequently…

- - - - Elsa's Ice powers
        
        Poorly defined limits- it can be blocked by gloves but can freeze through metal and stone?
        
        Capable of doing anything from creating new clothes with sequins on them somehow to making living snow beings themselves
        
        No real explanation for how she was born with those powers or why her magic would be feared or seen as something dangerous while the troll's magic is seen as a necessity
      - Other Magic
        
        No explanation for how somehow you need to manipulate the memories of someone to heal them from getting hit in the head with ice but for the heart one needs "an act of true love"
        
        No real explanation for how troll magic works in general- there are throwaway lines about "earning one's fire crystal" or whether elsa was born or cursed with her powers but there's no basic explanation of the magic system in this movie
    - - Anna is somehow allowed to make Hans the temporary ruler despite only being engaged to him that evening and everyone immediately accepts it to the point of telling him that if Anna dies, he's all that Arendelle has left
    - - Numerous mentions are made of Arendelle and Westleton being trading partners but no explicit mention is ever made about what these kingdoms trade in or how they came into a trading alliance
      - There's also the fact that Arendelle cuts off its trading with Westleton in the end so casually with there being no real statement on what other trading partners could take its place or the gravity of such an action
- - - - 'In Summer' and 'Reindeers Are Better Than People' barely develop the characters and are either so short and lacking in memorable composition that they fade into nothing. You could easily cut them from the movie and not only not lose anything but also gain more screentime
      - 'First Time in Forever' and 'Fixer Upper' are big, showstopper tunes that do move the plot forward and/or reveal something about the characters the way songs in a musical should but what they actually say (Anna is self-absorbed and spoiled, the trolls have no regard for agency or consent) makes these characters- who are supposed to be the positive or more heroic characters of the movie- out to be unlikable and awful people
      - 'Love Is An Open Door' does what it needs to do and it's cheesy mediocrity does makes sense in the context of trying to satirise these kinds of romances but the rest of the movie+ the lack of a reprise that reverses expectations when Hans is revealed to be the villain makes it stand out completely alone and feel incomplete
      - There's only one reprise in the entire movie- "For The First Time in Forever" and all it does is reinforce Anna's characterisation as someone self-absorbed and incompetent in the original song because she's trying to comfort Elsa but instead of actually providing comfort that takes the situation into account, she just spits empty platitudes that makes Elsa's panic even worse
      - "Let It Go" is one song that could be classified as good but it comes in the exact wrong place in the movie- at the end of Act 1- instead of the climax. And it's an especially big problem for a song that's meant to show a character finding self-acceptance and freedom in that to have the rest of the movie continually undercut it
      - "Do You Wanna Build A Snowman" is memorable and has potential but not only is the song mostly the same chorus repeated 3 times without much in the way of verses, it's from Anna's perspective even though she isn't the scapegoat in this family dynamic. Not to mention its characterisation of her as a neglected child wondering what's happened to her family is completely at odds with her Spoiled Golden Child personality in the next song.
      - 'Beware The Frozen' is a bizarrely throwaway musical overture since it contradicts the backstory Kristoff tells Anna as an orphan in his introduction and doesn't exactly foreshadow the story to come properly. Not to mention that we never see the ice harvesters as a Greek chorus again.
    - - It's functional and does what it has to but it isn't as memorable compared to some of the soundtracks of other Disney movies due to the lack of firm leitmotifs+ the only memorable parts (the chanting) is very much appropriated from Sami Music