The Reel Rejects - FROZEN 2 (2019) IS WAY DEEPER THAN WE EXPECTED!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:51 We got some questions from our royals. Not too many at the moment. But before we go into anything like that, let's dissect our thoughts here. Andrew, what's your first impressions at this? First of all, if you are on YouTube, make sure you do all the YouTube stuff, hit the subscribe button. Don't forget to hit that notification.

Starting point is 00:02:08 By the way, you're notified whenever we drop videos like these. Special thanks to the fine folks over at Prepper for editing down these highlights. We appreciate you. If you're also listening to us on Apple or Spotify, five-star rating, we would appreciate it. Greg, my thoughts on the film.

Starting point is 00:02:19 I really enjoyed it. I like how it touches up on the themes of the unknown. Do we want those questions answered? It really touches on maturity. and also about how do we react when things are not going our way, when we have to face that dark void. I think reacting in a way that how our attitudes are, because it's so easy to react when things are going in a good way,

Starting point is 00:02:43 that's very easy to do, right? When things are not going the right way, how dark can our thoughts be and just the processing be. And I've been there so many times. I've been depressed, not known what to do. Thank God. I have friends like Greg and other people in my life such a great support unit

Starting point is 00:03:00 around me, so I think maturity is the best way I can describe this film, and I think it does a really good job of executing on that, and I think it lets us the audience grow with these characters from the first film. It seems like we're only about a year, two, three, whatever it is, detached from the first

Starting point is 00:03:16 film, but I like a lot of this, especially with Olaf too. Olaf is such a fascinating character, this existential curiosity that he's on throughout the film, somewhat had some PSA messages for kids as well, but just his own journey, all these questions that he's asking about the meaning of life and what his purpose is here. He could have just been another comedic relief in the film, and I still would have found that very amusing because I love

Starting point is 00:03:41 Olaf so much from the first film, but the fact that they went into a less simplistic route and they went a little bit deeper with the character, I found it be so fascinating. Like, do things get more simple when we get older. No, not at all. And I thought that was such a brilliant way to do it with Olav. And then when it comes to the other characters, I like the internal crisis that Elsa is going through throughout the film, these unanswered questions she wants.

Starting point is 00:04:09 And I think Adina Menzel really displayed that throughout her voice. I like Anna, the responsibility that she has to embrace that her sister has the faith in her to the emotional or she goes through. I think Christoph has the best arc in the movie by far, having to stand up to the courage of proposing. That is actually a tough thing to do proposing. I've never done it myself, but I can imagine it's very difficult to do,

Starting point is 00:04:33 especially when someone you love, you're afraid of the rejection. And I think, granted, he could have had something else to do, but I will say this, so I'm being serious. I like that from the first film. He is this very supportive character. And while he still was a supporting role, I think he went from,

Starting point is 00:04:50 they gave him a lot more comedic bits in this film and emotion which led him from just being a supporting character to a fully fledged emotional partner for Anna and I appreciated that so the tandem of those four plus Sven I think they really are a family just minus the corona beers in the cars I love the dynamic of all of them and then just all the animation was so beautiful the songs just really hit on just what they were trying to execute on

Starting point is 00:05:17 so what about you man what did you think How are you feeling? Did it anything come back at you besides the oceans? No, actually nothing came back for me. I didn't remember this plot at all. I didn't remember this journey whatsoever.

Starting point is 00:05:33 And I kind of guess why the movie is not like the easy-to-excess family cute experience. They're really going to for a much more elevated, mature, almost like cinematic, dramatic heft with infusions of keeping Christoph and Olaf as humorous characters, but giving a lot of this dramatization to

Starting point is 00:06:07 the surroundings and everyone else. And I think the movie started clicking for me much better in the last half because I was there going, I don't really get what the arcs of these people are supposed to be or what their emotional journeys are supposed to be. And I kind of feel like once, if they added

Starting point is 00:06:29 one scene in the early on, I feel like it might have helped make that a little clearer. In terms of just in terms of just really sitting in the

Starting point is 00:06:43 journey of what their character development is going through by the time you get to the last half because it started clicking in the last half of like else's was pretty clear the whole time of feeling like hey i'm here i should be content but i'm not and there's something definitely missing in my life and i can't quite pinpoint what it is i'm at the throne but is this really my destiny And I think if there was one scene early on where she was kind of saying that to Anna, Anna, and Anna was like arguing with her of like, why do we need to go venture out? What do you mean you feel unfulfilled?

Starting point is 00:07:26 Like we went through all this. That way there would be like an internal conflict between them. So then by the time you get to the finale where they do go their own separate paths and it's an acceptance of them both, then I think it would have landed a bit stronger. It would have made the first, because in the first half, I was like, I see Elsa's journey, but everyone else kind of feels like we're going through just plot. Like, it's beautiful throughout. And so much of the emotion for me, it's kind of an inverse from the first one.

Starting point is 00:07:58 In the first movie, I wasn't really dazzled by the animation. You know, the music's great. And the characters are so fun and endearing. that my emotion I was deriving was from the characters and here I was deriving most of my emotion

Starting point is 00:08:16 from the animation and the tone and the music and the musical numbers but not so much the character so it was a bit of an inverse of an experience and I think some of that character development

Starting point is 00:08:30 was a little muddied because of that but in the last time it started to make more sense you know like I think that would have really if Anna especially was like I need you Elsa I don't know how to be here without you I don't know how to function without you

Starting point is 00:08:46 that way she would have her independence by the very end where she is leading I think it just would have made it all just land a little bit stronger because it is a beautiful film it is a flourishing movie it has a lot of amazing musical numbers and it is more serious and it's ambitious in the way of how they're really aiming to do something very different

Starting point is 00:09:07 and flesh out the elementals and there's like a viral mental messages in here there's uh it's cool to have like a movie about maturing for kids especially to understand that as you get older it doesn't actually get easier in fact it can get tougher and as life gets tougher

Starting point is 00:09:29 what tends to as why my favorite song is probably on a song about coming through the dark because of what it speaks to doing the right thing as things get tougher and a lot of people end up going down darker paths or being less caring and learning how to still consistently

Starting point is 00:09:45 treat people well and do the right thing can actually be harder as you get older. That optimism can fade away through the dark. So I love like what they're talking about. I love there's so much I love about this sequel and there's things I absolutely prefer. Resonating with you. Yeah, but I do think that first half

Starting point is 00:10:04 it was like, I don't really feel like, I feel like, I start feeling like, as Anna, Olaf, Olaf, and Christoph just here because they have to be here because they're from the first movie, because it started feeling like, do we need them? I feel like we just need Elsa, you know? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:17 And eventually, it started to come to play. And I was like back and forth with Christop, you know, because like it isn't as strong of a character this time. It is just like, I want to propose and I'm a little nervous. And, you know, it's a fair point of having to overcome being nervous of proposing that's what a lot of people have to go through but it was this kind of one dimensional

Starting point is 00:10:38 but to me what made it rewarding is the song that he gets lost in the world yeah that song was so funny it was awesome and Olaf was uh you know it's at times for me it was a little bit like not every line needs to be a joke but there was enough jokes that were funny and the bit

Starting point is 00:10:56 that he had of recapping the story was hilarious so they got just almost stick with me and that moment where he actually was dying that was hard that really was heartbreaking yeah i do agree with a lot of what you said i personally did right away understand where they were going with anna it seemed like i i can't remember if it was from the song or just like the way she was behaving it seemed like she was two things one she was afraid to be a even though she's got the support unit around her she's

Starting point is 00:11:26 got her sister and she's got she's got christoph she's got sven and she's got olaf but it seems like she is afraid, you know, of taking responsibility and being alone. Like, that's, that's a very tall leap to make in life. And, you know, you've got to be able to, in order to grow and evolve, you've got to be able to not be afraid of these things and take a leap of faith. So I think, like, right away, I was feeling that. I'm not saying that they made it crystal clear, but I, I think I was, I felt that inclination. Yeah, I do agree to your point. They could have made that a little more clear but I still could have made it stronger yeah for the word yeah for sure for sure but yeah I still I still really appreciated the the arc that they gave her character and and especially at

Starting point is 00:12:13 the end because you could tell it was very hard for her not to always be around her as much as she had christoph and that was her rock as well so was her sister like she's been with her sister her whole life I mean she literally like sacrificed herself for her sister like that's how much her sister means. She said, if you go into fire, I'm going to go into fire for you. Her sister is her world. So I think it's so impactful to hear lines like that and when someone actually means that. So to see her, you know, be deeply affected by that and to actually embrace the change to do that, to allow her to leave and take over the forest like that. I was like, this is a beautiful, I thought it was a beautiful arc personally. And I thought Christian about, is it Kirsten or Kristen?

Starting point is 00:13:00 Whichever one it is. Kirsten? Whichever one is, she did an incredible job. You could really also feel a lot of conflict from her, but also on the contrasting side, you really could also feel that she was so sincere in this, so warm and welcoming, too, at the same point. And I like the way she was able to balance all that out. All right.

Starting point is 00:13:20 Cool. Well. I think we got some questions. Yeah. I mean, overall, I still really, I enjoy it. Yeah. I still, I probably like the first one better, but I still really, I know we're about to probably get into comparisons with one and two. I love this one a good amount too as well. Did you say earlier that they announced a Frozen 3? Yeah. Okay. I'm not even paying attention to movies like I used to. So a lot of times I'm just learning new things like here on the ghost. This is nice to hear because I would love to see this franchise continue. I'm curious what the storyline is going to be.

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Starting point is 00:15:17 Jaden, thank you so much for being a Royal Rejects for asking us a question. We appreciate you so much. I actually think this movie is better than the first one. That's considered a hot take because the first one is so, loved, but I think they nail everything in this one. Do y'all agree or do y'all lean more towards the first movie and are y'all excited for the third movie?

Starting point is 00:15:35 What do you think, Greg? I kind of wish, there's got to be some, like, a hybrid where you have the visuals of this movie, the maturity, and the

Starting point is 00:15:49 cinematic tone combined with the strong character in the first one yeah yeah i feel it i feel that i'm like all right then you got like a great perfect they got a perfect one right there uh but the the the i would say the first movie i get why the first movie is so much more memorable uh you know it's as much easier to latch onto the songs are more catchy like most of the like there's a couple of fun songs here but most of the songs are kind of like very woven into the plot and they're very like bugging serious you know like they're going for like oscars whereas uh the first one is a little bit more classical

Starting point is 00:16:32 disney you know it feels more kid accessible whereas this does not feel as i feel like you're more of a teenager like i kind of feel like they tended to the kids who grew up to teenagers or teenagers into adults you know so i think they were wanting to mature with their audience which i appreciate but i do understand why the first one is more memorable so i would i would lean towards the first movie. Yeah, I would agree with that too. I think they're both great films. Definitely going to go with the first one.

Starting point is 00:17:03 I also wanted to point out there was one bit in this movie I really did appreciate about the bloodlines on what the grandfather did on having so much fear and paranoia when it comes to magic and then closing off the dam. I think it was really sticking with the word mature.

Starting point is 00:17:18 Just having Elsa and Anna, like they knew what their grandfather did, but not letting the cycle repeat on the mistake. that their grandfather made and rectifying that and going the the path less taken from what their grandfather did i think that was so beautifully done yeah and like the bloodline that started this feud as i pointed out earlier like ended this feud i thought there's so many things to appreciate about the first film and as well as this one so when there's two films i really enjoy i don't like getting into the which one did i like better i would just say i i really dug and

Starting point is 00:17:52 love them both there's so many things to to love about both of them. Yeah, I think thematic themes about lineage are very important to examine and so yeah. I mean, because that's some dark shit. Like, if I found out my grandfather did some crap, I'd be like, holy shit, what?

Starting point is 00:18:09 Yeah, that's what I mean, I think, like, I think the themes and what this movie's talking about, I actually prefer and it feels more nuanced. So, I mean, there's like, I feel like the third one. The third one can be like a blend of that of like the kind of themes and stuff or something. Does that have to be the same thing.

Starting point is 00:18:25 on top of that, it makes you go back to the first movie and like how the father feared magic. Yeah. And also just like feuds and all that. It's like, wow, this really deepens the first movie quite a bit. Put some in a rock and a hard place. Maybe also we'll get a lover in the third one. Allie. Thank you,

Starting point is 00:18:42 Ali. With a why. Which movie has the better catcher music in your opinion, Frozen 1 or 2? Yeah, I would definitely say Frozen 1. But while we're on this question, we could reformulate it. What is your favorite song in this one? I loved Lost in the Woods.

Starting point is 00:19:01 That was a good one. The one with Olaf, where he was just like, everything is good, everything is fine. Yeah, that's a fun. Because the reason I love that song so much, like when crazy shit is happening in my life, and sorry for the cussing, but when crazy stuff is going on in my life,

Starting point is 00:19:19 I really try to be a positive optimist and not like act towards, in a negative way towards the stuff that is reacting rather towards the crazy stuff that is going on and try to have just a very outgoing and methodical way of looking at things and i like that olaf was doing that so i think that song like really hit me in the fields and it was also funny so the way they were able to blend positive optimism with comedy and i love josh katt's voice i think that one just hit me the most but i also think the ona one that one also resonated with me because I've been in so many times I've had depression back a few years back and then obviously with what happened with my father this year and I've been in places where when I'm in that mode I can either sink down to the bottom of the ocean or I can rise and stand with courage and I usually not usually but I always choose to stand with courage which is easier said than done but it can be done and that's the path I always choose beautiful I couldn't have said any of that better I would just shout out

Starting point is 00:20:24 the ones that's the mean it's like the other songs in part one we're talking about I'm like this one because of the hook this one because like you kind of know what song it is without having to really say it without having to know all these lines but I haven't really describe it whereas this one I'm like remember that one scene that had this song was kind of like this that's kind of where I'm going from the the one where she does arrive at the ice place Elsa after riding that was really good that was the let it go version of For this film, yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:20:55 That was a great song, too. And Dina Menzel. So damn good. That was beautiful song. But yeah, the two songs you cited are the ones that I would undoubtedly point to, one for the more serious, one for the more fun. And both thematically rich. All right, Bree Garcia, Bree, thank you so much for being a royal reject and for asking a question. We appreciate you so much.

Starting point is 00:21:15 I think Disney is excellent in making little mantras for pushing through the rough stuff. In this case, it was do the next right thing. y'all have a famous amongst all the disney Pixar films excuse me e.g. just keep swimming, do the next right thing, small and broken, but still good. All you need is faith, trust, and

Starting point is 00:21:34 pixie dust. Yeah, I actually do Toy Story 2. Jesse. Somebody loved me. Remember that one where she was what's a Jesse, the little girl who owned Jesse, she was growing up and forgot about her.

Starting point is 00:21:50 Is that a song or a mantra? I don't know if it's a mantra, but it's a song and I'd have to look it up, but that, like, one really hit me in the feels about growing up and, like, forgetting the things that made us whole. And as we grow and mature, too, like, do people forget about us as well? Like, things just change. Sure.

Starting point is 00:22:08 Like, that one, like, because I was only 11 at the time of watching, I was like, this is giving me pause and stuff to think about. And I'm only 11 right now, but it hit me in the damn feel. Like, I was crying in the theater and watching that at such a young age, and I still cry every time I watch it, and even sometimes when I think about it, just that song, Jesse's reaction, and also the obliviousness of, like,

Starting point is 00:22:32 someone like Jesse's owner, who I'm just spacing out on the name right now, I know I failed. But thinking about, like, how sometimes something we love and hold so dear to us, we can just push aside and not have the care in the world about my, ooh, so cold sometimes, right?

Starting point is 00:22:46 Yeah. What about you? I don't know if I, I've never noticed the mantras like you say that I'm like oh yeah I know those but I honestly can't I don't want to just give an answer

Starting point is 00:23:02 to give an answer I don't really know if I even have an answer that's the only one I could think of because that one has stuck with me since 1999 I mean yeah it's a song but like a saying you know oh saying yeah Disney movie

Starting point is 00:23:16 mantras like okay you've got friend of me best date that's a good one you got a friend of me great i don't know i mean i imagine the do the next right thing will probably stay with me i don't know this movie this movie didn't stay with me from when i watched it 2019 so i don't know i know which mantra i'll make a man out of you that's what's happening to me good one i wish i could give a more proper answer but i mean i it's a good question to construct this

Starting point is 00:23:52 the moment i mean i imagine do the next right thing that's a that's a good one remember Oprah spoke at a college come at like a college commencement speech once and that was one of the three things she talked about is no matter what do the right thing and that's something that does that's a phrase that specifically Oprah's voice does i'm not even like a big Oprah fan on i'd like truth be told i don't not not that i dislike her anything i just don't really follow her career i just happen to listen to the speech and that that that was that's something that really stood out to me so like here and do the next right thing i kept thinking of Oprah when that was being said so that's why i imagine it'll probably stay with me uh so yeah that's the best i can do

Starting point is 00:24:30 wish i could give a more in-depth answer all right j rush and what up jay and this is our final question by the way like which character are you most like in the film the sad heart is i would say i would say christoph that is like certainly so it took you 90 times to propose to Olivia? Is this three, how long? How many, I want to know how many weeks did it take? I was more nervous about proposing than I was about getting, I wasn't nervous when I got married.

Starting point is 00:25:04 I was more nervous about proposing. But the, but Christoph, like, I'm more like Christoph, not from the first movie. In this movie, I'm like, oh, I'm Christoph. The kind of aloofness, the overdramatic and in your head, sentimentality, you know, the goofiness, the doofiness when you take yourself too serious over a matter or you're, yeah, I related more of that dynamic, especially when you're like, I don't get it. I don't feel like I'm saying anything wrong, but I'm offending my woman. What's going on here? Like, so yeah, I really connect with that. I do have a serious question for you, Greg. Were you more nervous to ask Olivia to marry you or were you more nervous to ask me to marry you guys? I would say, say probably Andrew. Definitely. It was at 11.30 and I'm like, huh? What? Good

Starting point is 00:25:52 answer, Andrew. What character are you most like? I feel like I'm a blend of a few characters, minus I'm a lot less attractive than Anna and Olaf, I guess, too, because he combs his hair a lot better, or his branch head than I do. But I would say, yeah, just having just existential curiosity on, like, what is the meaning of life? What is

Starting point is 00:26:16 my purpose here? I would say in certain aspects. I'm still finding myself in that essence. I would say when it comes to Anna, just not wanting to be alone, having that wanting to always have that support unit around me. Am I ready to accept responsibility? Now I have no choice because I don't have my dad around any longer. So, yeah, I would say probably those two characters playing the most.

Starting point is 00:26:40 I wish I had Elsa's powers, but I can't say I resonate in that way. I joke, of course. But, yeah, I would say those two characters, most likely, though I have way less talented singing voices than them. No. He's heard me in karaoke when I'm, when I have some liquid courage, but it's okay, guys.

Starting point is 00:26:58 No. Greg, let it go, okay? Just let it go, buddy. Well, thanks for the short amount of questions. Andrew, look, I'm getting you out of here on time. Thanks, man. See? Always rely on me to keep time management.

Starting point is 00:27:13 Yeah, we did a good job answering these questions in a very abrupt amount of time i like it thank you guys for joining us on this musical disney animate animated animated journey i'm excited oh my god we got audio from terra in my ear right now excited to pick i don't know what's next that is utopia what comes out the week after i'll i'll give you guys i never tell the upload schedule but stayed with us this long you deserve it i might as well tell you what's coming out next week um frozen frozen Look at the Mondays.

Starting point is 00:27:49 It's not scrolling. Oh, because I've got to fix that. Oh, where is it? Frozen 2. Oh, my gosh. There's nothing on the schedule. Oh, never mind. No, I was looking at the Monday.

Starting point is 00:27:59 Yeah, it is Utopia. Who's on that? Oh, it's me and Tara. Hey. I'm going to film out with Tara a couple days from now. Enjoy. I didn't realize. Did you see that?

Starting point is 00:28:09 I saw it back in theaters a while ago. It's probably a good movie. It's pretty good from what I remember. it's been a while it's been a while it's been a while yeah i'm definitely as good as old luffin on i tried guys i'm sorry all right guys bye

The Reel Rejects - FROZEN 2 (2019) IS WAY DEEPER THAN WE EXPECTED!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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