Frozen 2 Review

Frozen 2 is enjoyable for the most part, but it never reaches the heights of the first movie. The story holds your attention and it isn’t boring, and it follows Anna, Elsa, Kristoff and Olaf in a way that stays true to how they interacted in part one. The characters don’t drop off at all.

The animation is top-notch. Everything is crisp, the transformations look great, and the faces never look off. You can tell they spent a lot of time making sure everything looked right. Three thumbs up for the animation.

The biggest problem is the songs. The first Frozen had a song you knew the second it came on, and it became a worldwide phenomenon. Here, I couldn’t remember a single song afterward. They aren’t bad while you’re hearing them, but you won’t be singing any of them two weeks from now. It feels like they wanted the songs to fit the story better, and in the process made them forgettable without really pushing the plot forward.

My second issue is the backtracking. A big part of this movie is about what happened to Elsa and Anna’s parents, and I get why they’d want to show that, but it didn’t need to be told. When a sequel goes back and fills in the past, part one and part two have to line up, and here they don’t quite. A whole generation seems not to know about the enchanted forest, even though the parents knew about it and it never came up in the first movie.

The sisters’ relationship also falls back into the same trope as part one: Elsa keeps running off and insisting she has to do everything alone. We already learned “you’re better together” in the first movie, and she doesn’t really relearn it until the very end.

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Frozen 2 (2019) Cast and Details

Frozen 2 (2019) is directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee and stars Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff and Sterling K. Brown. It runs 103 minutes and is rated PG. You can look up the full cast and crew on IMDb. You might also like my Captain Marvel review.