The problem is Disney will always be too safe... They touch on issues and more complicated characters but don't allow for the depth that would make their films masterpieces. Obviously this doesn't apply to all their films, but the most "marketable franchises" like Frozen really suffer from it

The thing they should have done with Kristoff and his arc would be to have Anna refuse his proposal at the beginning, but still have them stay together. Kristoff would understand her decision (because of her past) but would still be a little hurt by it. They could have replaced all of those awkward parts of him trying to propose with other scenes that they didn’t have time for, along with some much-needed Kristoff and Anna interactions.

Honestly the thing that was most confusing to me was how Elsa was supposed to be the “fifth spirit”. Like i kind of understand the self discovery journey aspect, but to me it just doesn’t make any sense. You have water, fire, air, earth and then ICE? I think it would have made more sense if Elsa finds out she’s like a bridge to the water spirit, and then finds three other people who are “bridge elements” to fire, air, and earth. It would have made for interesting interactions, and some dope ass magic scenes. They also tried to explain the magic. and while explaining the magic sometimes works, this time it felt pretty vague.

I would love to see a “directors cut” of this movie with the original scenes. I think that would be the only way to truly judge. Also Olaf’s “what are the chances he’s also a psychopathic murder and will try to kill you” line is hilarious

While I liked "Lost in the Woods" visually and comedically, I mourn the loss of "Get This Right". It is one of *very* few songs for an animated film where a protagonist sings about the love that they have for a person based on non-physical traits about said person; its even more rare for a male to do it. Kristoff does mention that Anna is "gorgeous", but he also says that she is "funny, brave, and brilliant" and "won't give up on anyone". Another thing I liked about this song is Kristoff being worried that he didn't deserve Anna BUT ALSO desiring to meet her standard. He feels lucky to have her by his side and he desperately wants to let Anna know this and do right by her. This is a sharp contrast to most animated love-struck characters (male and female) that just pine over their object of affection and want to simply claim them

The deleted scenes showing the more colonial focus was definitely a better basis for the movie, but there's still quite a weakness in the interpersonal interactions of the film. The fact that they were rushed is very clear and if they had just given them the time to come up with a good movie and then nostalgia-marketed the crap out of it, I'm sure the performance would have been great and we could have even looked forward to a trilogy instead of the bland meh the actual movie turned into with absolutely no interest in further continuations.

Certain deleted scenes really should have stayed in the final cut. Like Elsa’s dream, Anna learning that her parents were gonna talk about Elsa’s powers to her, Arendel getting destroyed (or at least part of it if the executives really wanted to play it safe in a way) and maybe a bit of the alternate prologue.

I was honestly hoping for more magic users like Elsa

They should have made an animated series like the Tangled Adventures series instead. At least they would have had the time to slot in all the different subplots without it feeling muddled.

The fact that major studios regularly don't decide on movie plots until they've already spent tens of millions on production is insane.

I think the deleted scenes show the issue the movie had in picking a lane. On the one hand, the personal journey's got a lot more power bc it builds on the 1st, but the colonial story feels like it would've worked a lot better as a new film. And balancing this with all the other elements, it feels like they never got a break to pause and reconsider what to cut/condense.

Yeah... anna becoming queen was so out of nowhere for me

I’ll never understand the “fifth spirit thing” like GIRL snow is literally made out of water 😭

It's really interesting when you see the beta of a project as something that might have been better. It's really painful sometimes

I think... the film should have had a longer production. Then maybe they could find a compromise between all these ideas, and it would be awesome.

I personally am still confused how their mom is North Aldrian. When she's young she is QUITE tan. As an adult, she is SO PALE.

_Arendelle is not a place. It’s a people._ Oh wait, wrong movie. Even though it would work thematically.

While I understand why they played it save with the sequel to their most popular film of the last years, some of the cut stuff deffinitly would ave made the movie more interesting. And the beginning having new characters confusing kids? Did they show it to two year olds? I mean they could have even rearanged it by starting of Anna and Elsa looking at a book of their mom that then tells us and then of what happend in the

There is one thing I sorta noticed about elsa character that I love and that is her hair. In the first movie when we meet her it's in a bun cause she's closed off and up tight and not wanting to trip up. Then in let it go she lets her hair fall in to her braid releasing herself a bit and letting it go a smidge. I say smidge cause she's not fully released because of of the feeling that she's missing something and wants to go and see what's out there and to find out more about the thing that could possibly relate to her. Finally in show your self she is able to see and realise what that missing piece is and is finally able to let go and let her hair flow without restraint cause she knows where she belongs

I think the visuals during "Home" could've been something incredible. I feel like in Frozen 2, Ana is not her quirky, oddball self as seen in Frozen 1, and home could've really helped F2 out with that. We see her greeting the townspeople again. We see her happy, and interacting with different objects and locations in Arandelle. We can see her sense of humor again, like in 7:46 . In F2, Ana is pretty serious throughout this movie. She's distressed, annoyed, distraught, and not at all like herself for the majority of the film. She was my favorite character in the F1, but I feel like they sucked the energy and life out of her just to match the mood of the final narrative.

7:25 i.. wha.. but.. why...??? Couldn't they just get kids who've at least seen the first movie for the test screening?

Honestly if they kept the version where the grandfather's statue was present and the water coming to destroy Arendelle, showing everything get destroyed with emphasize on the statues destruction I feel that scene would have been so cool. Then showing everyone living together in peace, missed opportunities omg.

I was mainly angry with Anna and Kristoff's relationship the entire movie. Kristoff tries to propose at idiotic times, and Anna doesn't act like herself around him? Also, Anna proposing is ten times more fitting, especially with the Anna gets newfound independence as queen arc. Like, it would have been perfect. I also don't like the idea with the lying horse because it makes Kristoff sound greedy. Like "I don't like being a Lord, I wanna be a King." It implies marriage in a weird greedy way. Edit: thank you to the person who mentioned that Kristoff didn't want to be royalty at all. That makes a lot of sense. That could have made the destruction of the kingdom even better so they could restart the society and have more equal dynamics rather than having royalty.

My biggest issue with the story was that it didn't feel... epic enough?? During Into The Unknown they set up this grand fantasy adventure but once they're on that adventure it just falls flat to me. The resolution to the voice was confusing and underwhelming, the stakes for the people caught in the mist didn't feel high enough and the characters' motivations seemed wavering through out. A lot of this definitely had to do with the entire film being re-written within a couple of months of the release but I honestly don't think this film would have don it for me even if they did go with the original script. I would have liked it way more but in the end I wish that Matpat was right in his theory for once, it would have been amazing if they went to Canada for this journey, I would have been sold on a story that was bigger than what we got.

How cool would it be to have a snyder cut equivalent of this movie, honestly.

Disney realy should take more risks these days, they have the money for a few flops and succeding would be amazing. Having a story about post colonials dealing with the fact they are post colonials would be amazing and seriusly lacking from todays media.

These alternate scenes sound like they would've helped the film and made it more interesting, especially since the biggest flaw was the structure and the disorganization of the plot

This movie’s messages that just because everything’s changing doesn’t mean you’re not loved, things are scary but that’s ok, and when death/bad things happen you gotta focus on what’s in front of you, have gotten me through 2020. The version from the deleted scenes would’ve made a better movie, and I would’ve preferred it if 2020 didn’t turn out like this. But as we are, I’m so thankful they made the movie they did

I'm not enough of a fan to have seen this yet, but it might have been interesting if "Home" and "Get This Right" were the first two parts of an early song, instead of complete songs on their own. Anna starts out optimistic about her future, then she's suddenly confronted with it when Kristoff proposes -- here's marriage, and family, and responsibilities. Whether or not she accepts, the third part could have been a mix of the two when she doubts herself and remembers how naive she'd been before. That's also the part that could be reprised later with a more confident message ("should I try" to "I should try"), from both herself as well as Arendell.

I’m glad how you called out how easily they called out their ancestor’s racism. It annoyed me how they looked at a high-ranking official of a racist’s army, said- “Your leader was racist.” and he legit just...believed and agreed with them. That got me so mad.

I think it's a mixed bag. Most animation fans would just assume you replace some scenes with those deleted scenes and it would be okay, which is not the case at all. Doing any changes to the story would mean major major overhauls to the entire story. You can't just reshoot a scene and call it a day. You have to make sure the scenes would weave and transition from one another in a sensible way. I think there was a base of a more interesting story, but there would still be problems. Now, would it have been a better overall movie? Probably. It would have been more mature and ambitious to say the least.

The original cut sounded much more like the Sámi people from Norway's story. It was actually illegal to speak the Sámi language in schools here for a while in the 50's.

the stupid dam is what gets me. you can take down a dam without destroying it in one go and creating a tidal wave destroying your flipping home.

You know it's officially nearing the Christmas/Winter holidays when you start seeing Frozen videos again.

Frozen II is such a 5/10 movie for me. I don't think it's bad, but I also don't think it's that great. Visually the best movie ever, structurally not so much. It could've been so much worse, but it also could've been so much better. I'm torn with this movie.

"No wonder it feels like he has better chemistry with dipper" When I tell you the noise that came out of my mouth-

0:30 The fact that "comedy" is on both sections is my favorite part in the image.

I Think the deleted scenes are setting up a more interesting movie. And It’s sad that they couldn’t keep them in. I Think they wanted to do too much with the story to make it into a movie. It might actually have been better as a series. Or perhaps a longer movie. But of course disney wouldn’t allow a longer movie because as we all know It’s impossible for a child to keep focus for more than an hour and a half. 😒😑🙄

I remember when Frozen 2 had just been barely announced, there were rumours that said that Hans was going to come back. Of course this was early on, and was definitely dropped in the beginning, but personally, I would have loved to at least, see some kind of conceptualization of this idea.

Disney is continuing to make sequels yet they haven't even made one about me yet smh

In Show Yourself I would have appreciated the answer to the source of the voice at least. In the cut scene, it was her future self calling, but it could have been the part of her 5th spirit self that was calling, and could only speak with scenes of the past(mom singing and the freeze time statues), and body language. Really wish that they would have had more time to develop the movie or just go the way of Tangled Adventures.

My personal theory is that Frozen 2 might have been originally planned as an animated tv series. Because weirdly it has some similarites with Tangled tv series in terms of plot (Finding the origins of power). So I have a feeling it was originally planned as tv series but later changed into a single movie. Cos some of the subplots, to me, felt like it would worked well as a part of a tv series rather tha a movie.

I still prefer Jenny Nicholson's vision for the movie, because I enjoy the idea of Elsa being misguided by the spirits and tying it into the cut line from the trailer. However, I do agree that many of these deleted scenes compose a far more compelling and interesting story. At the very least, it adds more depth and discussion to the themes and the characters than they ultimately got. With Kristoff, one of my headcanons was that he starts to struggle with his feelings in the relationship because Anna's co-dependency with Elsa sort of shows that she constantly ignores him if there is a chance that Elsa needs her. In some cases, he feels more alone now that he's in the relationship than when he was by himself. I completely understand this is far too detailed a direction for their relationship to go, but it is an interesting thought train I test out here and there.

I heard somewhere that in "Gotta Get This Right", Kristoff takes FOREVER to get to the point and just pop the question, so Anna ends up being the one proposing to him!

I honestly think they should have added "home" to the end of the movie, after Anna becomes queen! I feel like it would fit really well and would have been a nice happy song for the final one

It should have gone Battle as opening scene, some things never change(with grandpa statue at end) , blah blah charades, I'm gonna get this right, sleep- into the unknown, dreams to crystals, trolls with ominous foreshadowing, blah blah getting there, ooh spooky- yay they're cool (gasp its the guy from the opening), when I'm older, blah blah cute stuff, lost in the woods, finding boat- magical journey, super cool horse fight, show yourself, freeze/next right thing, blah blah Anna and Kristof, everything happens like normal but Arendel gets destroyed (disney gets profit), parents and anna, cute hug and goodbye, happily ever after because elsa is a horse girl who lives in the forest now and her sister is queen, credits role

I can definitely argue that the deleted scene for zootopia with Judy talking with her parents over the phone was so much better then how they made her parents look like assholes

I feel like the writers just didn't really know what they wanted from Frozen 2 honestly. Like they seemed confused on the target audience because they tried to add in darker and more complex elements a details for older audiences but didn't go all the way with them to keep it simple enough for younger kids, and they seemed confused on their subplots and themes there were so many of them and over half of them feel half baked. They just tried to do waaaay to much at once and it ended up being kind of a jumbled mess from a plot/writing perspective.

The citizens of Ardenelle weren't responsible for the sins of Anna and Elsa's grandfather so I don't think they should have lost everything. Remodelling the town to have elements of the other culture would have been cool though.

it’s been over a year and i still cannot take frozen 2 seriously. it feels like such a fanfiction.

My biggest issue was how there were no bad consequences to _anything._ They didn't carrying through with anything in a satisfying way (for me at least). I walked out of the theater just thinking "Elsa should've stayed dead," and over the course of the past year, I've thought about it more and more, and why I felt that way. It was for the reason I mentioned before, and also imo it kind've cheapened what i was getting from 'the next right thing'. I _wanted_ to see Anna get back up, destroy everything she ever knew, because it was right. And then help build the kingdom back up brick by brick with her people, because it was right. Even though it was hard and she'd be grieving, it was her duty and the right thing to do. Instead, 0 consequences. Elsa comes back to life, the kingdom is saved, anna is queen, kristoff proposes, and everything is good. And that just,,,, irks me. It seems like it's making a show of "haha, we're the good guys so no lasting bad can _really_ happen to us. Also, Ik it's at the end of the movie, but there's no interaction between Anna and Elsa that helps or even really acknowledges Elsa's tendency to push people away and things herself, Elsa's communication issues, and/or Anna's anxiety and dependence. The closest I felt that we got to this was Olaf asking if this was gonna be a regular thing and Elsa saying no. So keeping her alive didn't really solve any of their underlying problems. To me, the story moved slow in the beginning and super fast at the end, and nothing _really_ happened (best way for me to describe it is that both a lot and nothing happened at the same time), yeah, they saved the forest and Anna became queen, but there was no satisfying conclusion or consequence and it kinda ruined the story (again for me). It was a beautiful movies, I loved most of the songs, but,,,, it just didn't work the right way for me. Obviously, other people will feel differently from me, and I kinda feel bad because I know they were rushing and there're limits in production, plus "it's a kids movie" and you can't sell toys of a dead character, but I had to get this out there. Sorry if this seems like a rambly mess.

I really think the way the plot of Frozen 2 went would have worked immensely better as the plot of a season of a TV show. The adventure plot is just screaming a television adventure plot and the additional time would have helped the development.

"the water horse fight is boss" spitting facts

I as someone who liked Frozen 2, I really wish that pretty much all of these scenes were in the movie Release the Lee Cut

The fifth spirit is Elsa AND Anna. The fifth spirit is the bridge between magic and humanity and because a bridge has two sides the fifth spirit has two embodiments. Anna is the side of the bridge that represents humanity and Elsa the side that represents magic. It's literally explained in the movie, why does everyone forget about it?

i wish Disney would just...give their films more time. Let the creators work stuff out naturally to make the movie as great as it can be. i get that you need a deadline, but why not push it back if things still need work. it’s not like they can’t afford it

If you think about the “frozen heart” thing from Frozen 1, which looks identical to Elsa freezing in this film, it makes total sense that the sins of her people’s past were so horrifying that they literally froze her heart.

My takeaway from this video: The original intent of the film was to continue the themes and depth of the first movie but add some maturity to keep adults interested. What the film ended up being was something watered down because children didn't immediately get hooked. Merchandise sales counts for something like 60-70% of income for a franchise, so the execs cared more about that than the message of the film. I believe i remember something about how in kingdom hearts iii all signs pointed to elsa being taken over by darkness and her being the final battle in that world, but hans being thrown in at the last minute for like 2 minutes of gameplay because disney didn't want people to associate elsa with bad. Or that it was the original intent of the first movie but was changed last minute and the production of the game was left floundering. Overall, the frozen series seems to be a struggle between what people think kids can handle and what kids can really handle.

This video should be an educational video about storytelling and foreshadowing and how to fail at it, so that future storytellers can learn from these mistakes, after all, that's why mistakes happen

“Gotta Get This Right” is 1000x more endearing and catchy than Kristoff’s 80s rock song that ended up in the final.

Honestly, merging these with the theatrical cut could result in something really freaking good. Just mentally doing it is pretty interesting, I'm at least glad they decided to show the deleted scenes because this shows a completely different side of the narrative, and I must admit, the majority of them were really freaking good. Also, the whole Kristoff subplot was so badly executed that a) the actual message and growth were completely lost to me b) it was unbelievably stretched for no reason c) it was basically nonsensical in terms of a proper relationship I was watching this with Mum and I was like "Mum, imagine if you one day went to the store without telling us and then your partner was like NOOOO WE'rE GROwiNG APART, HOW COulD THis HAvE HAPPENed" It's just ridiculous. I have never even been in a relationship before but I can tell that this makes zero sense.

having Elsa and Anna's grandpa as an active villain would've made for a stronger story, I think. Either as like some sort of supernatural entity, or just as a still alive mortal man or something.

Elsa definitely felt liked she stayed the same as a character because she’s constantly rejecting Ana ‘s help in solving the mystery of the voice calling out to her. I loved the way the first one ended, it wasn’t some guy that saved any of them but each others love and I was kinda disappointed with the route they chose to take in frozen 2, it felt more of an Elsa show because she had to find herself( which isn’t a bad message) but I never felt like Elsa needed to go off on her own to find herself. Ana and Elsa are great together, they’re a great team and Elsa without Ana wouldn’t be as good. They’re relationship, to me, is the core of the story and to not follow that in the sequel felt like a bad move because now they can get back the relationship they had before Ana got her mind wiped of Elsa ‘s powers.

Oh yes, I would spend big money to get it properly animated and pieced together. I probably also would change Honeymaren’s final line of “you belong here with us.” To “you belong here with us and, and with me.”

When Anna became queen I was so confused, like why? They didn't even give us hints about how Elsa preferred the forest to Arendelle

I hope they release a documentary of that one cancelled film "Gigantic". Would have loved to see all the concept art and songs for it

I like the story in the film better but I can see why people wanted a film based on those deleted scene, with one exception : I am so glad they didn’t do Kristoff’s story that way because I absolutely hated it. Specifically, I hated “Hard Nokk”. The idea of a wild man not fitting into the court life is just so cliched and overdone that I couldn’t bear the thoughts of Kristoff being handed this tired plotline. The film version , while imperfect , is at least something different and interesting. I very much prefer it indeed

This movies production was messier than the Black Cauldron's

I was hoping that Frozen 2 would be based of 90s Renaissance Disney Princess films, like how the first was based of classic Disney Princess Films

I think the movie could have combined all its points together nicely if it made it a story about growing up and finding who you really are. Yes things are amazing and happy, but adulthood is complicated and messy and you learn hard truths about who you are. They could have had Elsa represent the memory, the need to know the past, even if you ultimately get lost in it. While Anna could represent the desire to move on, wanting to move forward and ignore her trauma. Even Kristoff could have shown this too by "growing up" in finding his true identity in the middle ground of rugged mountain main and royal lord (which could have made Lost in the Woods so much more thematically bomb) and maybe even have him learn more about his own family. I think the plot should have gone something like this: Elsa hears a voice, making her think her mother is alive. Wanting to know more, she makes the journey and leaves Anna in charge, which scares her since she doesn't feel ready. Suddenly, all hell breaks loose with the spirits. Anna, Kristoff, and Olaf decide to follow Elsa and tell her what happened. She reveals her real reason, and the group enter the woods. They are greeted by the spirits and meet the northuldra. The learn about the fifth spirit, a connection between the world of magic and humans. Elsa thinks it could be their mother, and she makes a plan to go to Atahollan to find her and save everyone. Anna wants to join but Elsa thinks it's too dangerous. The girls fight and are separated. Anna does some soul searching and begins to uncover the mystery of the night the curse began. She finds out her grandfather was evil and built the dam which caused the curse. However, she can't act because she's unable to make a decision that big. Eventually, Elsa reaches the island singing a shorter version of "Show Yourself" only to learn that the voice was a memory of her mother, and that her mother is really dead. She breaks and her grief swallows her accidentally freezing her. Anna is concerned once Olaf starts turning to snow (make him like a timer for how long Elsa has got) and have her fight her grief through "The Next Right Thing" until she makes it to Atahollan and snaps Elsa out of it, making her unfreeze, showing her accepting her grief. A vision appears and tells them the wrongs must be righted, Anna, realizing she was strong enough to save Elsa, decides she is strong enough to take action: the dam must be destroyed even if it destroys Arendelle. Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff work together to break the dam and keep the people safe. It works, though Arendelle is destroyed. However, the spirits appear showing Anna and Elsa have passed their test. We hear them (and the girls parents) singing Show Yourself" as Arendelle is rebuilt and Elsa becomes the Snow Spirit. With her new powers, Elsa realizes that they are both the fifth spirit, creating a bridge between humans and magic. Elsa realizes however, that she can't be queen anymore, she belongs with the other spirits. Anna understands, and says that as the bridge, they'll always be connected. Elsa makes Anna the Queen. She leaves and we get the OG ending with the statute and Elsa and Anna sending notes to eachother. Happy Ending.

Some the deleted scenes I like (Secret room, Elsa’s dream, and alternate ending) but the first 2 would have taken more time which means it would have taken long to actually get to the forest. And while I don’t think the castle should have been destroyed, it would have been nice for Elsa to show Anna the ice memory of her parents

I was honestly expecting for christof? To get together with Ryder. Their chemistry works very well together

Frozen 2 feels like it’s trying to be a sequel and a third movie. A lot of promise but struggled with direction

Ohh gosh why didn’t they show the test screening to teen/young adults?! If the children never watched it we could have gotten this. I know I hate that they can’t accept new characters from the start.

Although I love the idea of Anna turning Kristoff down I wonder if it would’ve gotten criticism for being similar to the subplot in Tangled the Series where Eugene is turned down by Rapunzel

I would suggest watching the documentary on the making of this movie. Its quite a revealing on how Disney operates nowadays.

25:46 excuse me for a moment *screams into pillow and shoots off ear*

They should have had some teens and young adults at the test screening cuz when I went to see it on opening week with my friend after midterms there were quite a lot of teens in the theatre. It wasn’t just young kids and their parents.

any time i see these deleted scenes I have to scream into a pillow because there is a FANTASTIC movie trapped in there

Darn you, executive meddling! Why must you ruin stuff that has potential!?

I think "HOME" could have still been used as one of the possible songs in the epilogue. maybe an expanded ensemble song in the same vain as "Some Things Never Change, where Anna is still the lead singer, but all the characters come back in for the final number as well". Keeping the Arendelle destruction plot line, "HOME" could have been set up as the montage number of rebuilding Arendelle with Anna stepping into her official role as queen. Her "Home" being the new home her and her people have built after it was washed away, rather poetic. Her final verse "I'm Home" is a gorgeous resolution to a song after the full ensemble comes in (Listen to the song if you want to understand what im talking about). If it was placed differently i feel it could have still worked, but also im saying that because it's my personal favorite of the cut songs. I mean its mostly acoustic guitar, could have made Kristoff play his lute while Anna sang.

The fact that Get This Right and Home are my favourites from the soundtrack yet neither of them made it into the final cut.😔

This is just why capitalism chokes art lmao- they tried to churn this movie out too fast and it ended up feeling thrown together and disorienting at times because they simply didn't have time to fully flesh it out. And it's tragic because it's really beautiful and if the story had made sense and the climax was building like it should have, the scene with Elsa freezing (along with every other good scene) would have hit so much harder. It takes so many revisions to write a nuanced story that can be consumed by children and trying to rush it like they did was really not the way

your shown scenes make it so much better! ive seen it twice and once in theatres and i didnt even remember the ending lol!

Something I think about often is why was their no Hans in the second? He was royalty in his kingdom. When Ana punched him in the face, shouldn’t there be a consequence for that? What if in the third movie, the kingdom from where Hans comes from declares a war and the Northaldrens side with Arendel all while Ana struggles due to the fact that she is still learning to be a queen. THATS THE SEQUAL I WANT TO SEE!

Personally, I wish they'd just focused on exploring the magic aspect, maybe show darker sides to it. Maybe another magic user who was driven insane by their powers and now seeks to destroy all magic, and Elsa was summoned to help protect it as she is one of the few people who has control of her powers.

It’s crazy - I just rewatched this movie for the first time since release last night and had all the thoughts on animation, music, and character vs. story, structure, theme, and plot that you brought up here!

"A beautiful mess" I feel like these are the words I have been missing.

Better late than never! These deleted scenes do feel like part of a much better movie than what we got. Also, I really felt that they built up Elsa's impending death and transition to spiritual state way too hard without following through.

I swear, everyone is using “Road to El Dorado” memes now and I love it

There's an article that explained on how even the writers of Frozen 2 were confused as to WHO the voice that Elsa heard was! I saw clips of this movie, but to me, I felt that some things were off. Elsa ditching her role as Queen of Arendelle to be this "Guide of the Northundal Tribe", the King and Queen not telling thier daughters the truth of their past, Anna becoming a ruler of a kingdom because she's suddenly a leader... I've got the answers from the first Frozen movie, but Frozen 2 just gave us a story with unanswered questions and such! I'd like to know HOW did Anna manage to rule the kingdom by herself just "Perfectly" when ONLY ELSA was trained to be the future queen and Anna was barely seen being trained? Were the King and Queen REALLY killed during the storm at sea or simply shipwrecked on the shores? How did the Arendelle Guards that were trapped in the magic forest survive or not even "Age" or something? Overall question: What IS this story about?! This is almost as poorly written as the seasons 6-9 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! ESPECIALLY the final season with Twilight being made to rule Equestria, BY HERSELF and NOT AGE LIKE HER FRIENDS!!! (Also, the fact that Twilight looked like a recolor of Celestia is...What was that...?) Like, HOW did the family not KNOW about the King's grandfather being a "Racist" of magic and such?! Was this the reason WHY The King told Elsa to conceal her magic aside from not hurting anyone by accident or being feared as a monster? I'm so confused, even I don't know how to properly ask the questions about this movie! Also, what does heritage have to do with Elsa's magic? Unless the Northundals could use the SAME elemental magic that Elsa has and WHY she has it, I don't see the connection between the magic and heritage overall.

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The best line I've heard to describe this movie is: "it's more for adults" because it's main problem is it trying to connect with adults while trying to entertain kids. Which is where we get the quick end of bringing everyone back and saving erendale,just to please kids. The movie was good until the very obvious kid scenes came squashed in

It's hard to say if Frozen 2 would have been a better movie with the deleted scenes but I think it definitely is possible to create a better movie from those deleted scenes. Kristoff and Anna's relationship would be the most sure improvement but also having more buildup to the true nature of the conflict between the Arandellians and Northuldrans would have made that twist a lot more impactful. I feel like the only person who feels this way but in movie we got I never felt like there was any emotional weight behind anything Elsa did. Moreover, they never really resolved her conflict with Anna, they were just suddenly good at the end, which, I mean, it makes sense that Anna wouldn't want to pick a fight with her sister who was dead an hour ago, but it still felt like a cop out. Played right some of these deleted scenes could have improved Elsa and her relationship with Anna a lot.

In my opinion, this is the best review I've ever seen. It focuses on both the good and the bad, what should've changed and what shouldn't have. And you also gave good reasons both towards and against putting that science instead of the actual movie

I really love Frozen 2, but as with basically every movie there are so many Very Good ideas in the deleted scenes and storyboards. Especially the official parting ways scene and the bits going harder on the cultural revisionist path. I think the movie would have been better with more emphasis on the theme of acknowledging your racist past! But despite its shortcomings and missed potential, Frozen 2 still one of my favorite movies I've ever seen.

Guys, I think Spex's actually *alive* this time

I don't care what ANYONE says, get this right SHOULD have been in the movie and is WORLDS better than lost in the woods

Honestly, when viewing the cut scenes, it feels soo much better, Like, Olaf’s story was always more about change from internal stimuli, growth in identity and maturity, etc, with none sense throughout in bursts to keep it fun. Anna and Kristof’s stories could have been about change from stimuli of interpersonal relationships or in response to them, as you said with their relationship suffering strain, K admitting that he isn’t as happy, and the proposal song,etc And Elsa’s story, which I’d change the most, hers would be focused on external stimuli, changes to her exterior that force her to move with them. Her struggle in finding who she is as a leader and confronting the mistakes of leaders past by finding all perspectives to the story. Aka, Elsa asks all involved what happened and what lead to the animosity between their people, and in facing this truth, and history, understanding what the role of a leader is and how she fits into it It would also tie into truth as well Elsa into the truths of the past , to make sense of her role as leader and who she is (past in an actually tangible way, and we could still have a bit of the whole water memory) A&K about the truth of their feelings for each other, fears, etc, again the whole “my love is not fragile” thing would hit hard And Olaf, he’s olaf, he’s been spilling tea all along Also, we did not need Elsa power origin story, and it’s honestly a drag, show yourself was fun, but too much nothing. It also separated the characters (something the idea above fixes as they’d all be required to remain together with the.... forest people who’s name I’m not gonna butcher) which meant the character arcs felt stagnant and disconnected Hi, edited at the end Wth, wow, why is every single cut thing here extremely interesting and feel like, soo much better, just. Someone make a frozen 2 remake with the cut scenes in it, it’s just, damn, I would have loved it. That last cut scene, with the parents deciding to tell Anna, I shed a tear just to the idea

I believe they'll find a way to put "find yourself" and the heritage plots together. The deleted scenes made much more sense in some parts of the final film. I feel Disney just worry about getting the money then telling a continuation of the story and have kids and adults be curious of it and the characters that is introduced. Also the music, can't forget about them worrying of "How can we one up Let it Go with this new film." Ah that's what it feels like they were worrying about.