So I watched Disney's "Frozen" and Dreamwork's "The Croods" in the recent past.
And I know these are children's shows, but there were things about them that definitely bothered me.
If you were planning on watching these and don't want spoilers, I would recommend not reading below!
So in Frozen, at the beginning you see Kristoff and his reindeer secretly watching some trolls talk to the royal family, and a lady troll pops up beside him and says something like, "I'm going to keep you."
There is very little in the beginning sequence to imply that he is alone, and he mentions being an orphan raised by trolls only late in the movie as an off-hand thing. He's just a little boy following a bunch of men, which is something that little boys whose fathers work jobs often do.
So it basically looks like this troll lady kidnaps him, and it threw me off until he mentioned he was an orphan.
In the Croods, the ending is the family and Guy living on a beach and riding off into the sunset, and it's supposed to be all happy that they managed to survive when everyone else died.
But, uh, think about it. It's a family plus one non-family guy and no other people around to repopulate the world after everyone else is dead? It looks like they are making a second movie, but I have no idea whether it will be set after, like them finding another conclave of people, or what, but I hope so since my brain is going, "eww."
I've not read this post yet, since I'm actually planning to watch Frozen with the boyfriend when he comes to visit. Once I have, I will come back here and see if I had similar thoughts! :)
ReplyDeleteI watched Frozen now, and I quite liked the movie. Your comment about the troll does ring true though. There's no explanation in the beginning showing that he's an orphan, so you kind of think she's about to kidnap him. But thinking back I guess that's why none of the men seemed to care when he was falling behind? Seems awful though, even if it's an orphan, wouldn't you keep an eye out on the kid?
ReplyDeleteI did like the movie overall. For once everything wasn't solved by true love's kiss, but the love between the sisters. I was on some level hoping that the bad prince wasn't bad, because then we'd have had a movie without a true villain - leaving Elsa's fear of her own powers as the biggest threat.
Not seen the Croods, but the ending does seem rather "eek" if they don't run into more survivors *lol*
It's nice to see Disney coming out with movies where love isn't the main focus. In "Brave," it was more Merida and her mother. In "Frozen," it's Anna and Elsa, the sisters. I think it's awesome to show little girls that they can dress up and be princesses, but they can still do things that aren't involving men, but other women, friends and family.
Delete*romantic love, I should specify. They're all about familial love.
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