Top 10 Worst Things About Olaf’s Frozen Adventure
Olaf’s Frozen Adventure is one of the worst holiday specials I’ve ever seen! I like Frozen, but this was terrible! So let’s discuss the worst things about this special.Kind of bad when Olaf is the worst thing about a short called "Olaf's Frozen Adventure." I liked him in the movie, but when they make him the main focus, he becomes annoying! This was a major problem I had with Cars 2! They made the comic relief character the main character! They also made Olaf a lot dumber than he was in the movie, which was a bad idea. They made him so annoying that I actually didn't care what happened to him! It's too bad they'll make him survive anything! He's just so obnoxious! This short made me hate Olaf! If Frozen 2 ends with Olaf permanently melting, that will make me so happy.
You have no idea how angry this made me. As we all know, it's been a tradition for Pixar to release a Pixar short with their movies. They've been doing that with all of their movies since Toy Story. That is, until Coco came out! Instead of releasing a Pixar short with the film, they decided to release Olaf's Frozen Adventure! Which is not technically a short or made by Pixar! Are you serious!? Why would they do that!?
I always love when we get to see a Pixar short before a movie! Showing a 21-minute Olaf short ruins that! Yep! A short about celebrating traditions ruined a real-life tradition! Well, I just hope that Incredibles 2 will have an actual Pixar short.
Disney wanted to see how many songs they could cram into a 21-minute short. The short is almost NOTHING but singing, with a few lines of dialogue. People complain that Frozen had too much singing, but that was actually a musical movie! Olaf's Frozen Adventure is too short to be a musical.
The songs aren't even very good! They're so bland and generic! A lot of people like the song When We're Together, but I personally think it's cheesy and tries too hard to force in a message. The song that Olaf sings as he's finding out what people's traditions are - I'll admit it was fun seeing Josh Gad perform it live at D23 - but the song itself is kind of annoying and feels too long. I don't even remember the song at the beginning. There's also a song that Elsa sings, which I thought was entirely pointless. It's meant to be emotional, but Elsa was pretty much just being overdramatic. I didn't like any of the songs.
This is a HUGE problem that a lot of people have with this "short." IT'S TOO LONG! Seriously! This would've been acceptable had it stayed as a TV special, but this was released in theaters and played before Coco! It's bad enough that we have to wait through a bunch of terrible trailers before the movie starts! But if you include a 21-minute short, that means you pretty much have to wait almost an hour before the movie starts!
This caused so many people to be angry! They even pulled it from theaters in Mexico! Throughout the entire thing, I was waiting for it to be over! It kept on going and going! At least Frozen Fever was about 6 minutes! I don't know what Disney was thinking.
Kristoff is the only good thing about this short, but he's barely in it! He only appears in, I think, two scenes and only gets a few lines. They do give him a song, but it's a very bad song. Seriously, Disney? You have Jonathan Groff, a very talented singer, in one of your movie franchises, and you don't even give him a good song? Hopefully, he will get a better one in Frozen 2.
The only moments in the short that I didn't think were terrible were whenever Kristoff was on screen because he's pretty funny. I would've preferred it if the short was entirely about him.
Really? They released this atrocity with Coco? What was Disney thinking? From what I've heard, and I'm not sure if this is true, Disney didn't seem to have faith in Coco and thought that showing a Frozen short before the movie would attract more viewers. I bet they really regret this decision.
The irony is that everyone ended up loving Coco and hating Olaf's Frozen Adventure. This makes me feel bad for Coco. It's a really amazing film, but the Frozen short is keeping people from seeing it in theaters. There are even people who didn't know about the Frozen short and were frustrated since they paid money to see Coco. Some people got confused and wondered if they walked into the wrong theater.
Look, Coco is a fantastic movie! Nearly flawless! Olaf's Frozen Adventure, however, is the complete opposite! If you don't want to watch the short but REALLY want to watch Coco in theaters, then arrive at least 40 minutes late.
I hated this entire scene in the movie. I never liked Oaken. Even in the movie, he was a terrible character. I hate that Disney has to put him in everything Frozen-related! This was probably his worst appearance! It's not just him that I hated. I pretty much hated the entire scene when he and Olaf were in a sauna. This part should've been cut out. It really didn't need to be there.
Also, Olaf melts, turns into water, gets poured into a bucket, gets poured out of the bucket outside, turns into ice, the ice breaks, then he becomes a snowman again. HOW DOES THAT WORK!? And I really hated the joke in which Oaken takes off his towel and throws it on Olaf. We didn't see anything inappropriate, but I still thought it was disgusting.
I don't know why, but the humor in this was terrible! I didn't laugh at any of the jokes! Well, actually there was one joke I remember laughing at, but the majority of them I found to be very unfunny! I didn't even hear anyone else in the theater laughing! Not even the kids! I could tell how bored they were watching this! Most of the humor relies on Olaf's stupidity. Sure, it was funny in the movie, but it gets annoying in this 21-minute short. It's so unfunny that it makes Saving Private Ryan look like a comedy!
Saving Private Ryan is a great film. While it's a bit too harsh for kids, I'd rather let them watch that instead of this stupid short.
This is another way to tell that this was meant to be a TV special. They didn't even bother to fix the aspect ratio! It made it even harder to watch. It has an aspect ratio designed for TV. It just looks weird when watching it on a larger screen. They could've easily fixed it to make it more watchable. We're just watching this small square image on a long screen! It doesn't look good. I really wish they had changed it.
It's a 1.78:1 special being shown on a huge screen.
Reminds me of how Doug's First Movie was shown in 4:3 in cinemas when most movies by then were in Panavision ratio.
It's clear that this special was only made so they could sell merchandise. Frozen made so much money and sold a lot of merchandise. What did they do next? They made a short to play before Cinderella (2015) two years later, and that short sold a lot of merchandise. What did they do next? They made a 21-minute short that played before Coco two years later, and it's selling a lot of merchandise. What are they going to do next? They are going to make a legit Frozen sequel that comes out two years later and will most definitely sell a lot of merchandise! You see what I'm saying?
It is especially stupid because it pops up during the part of the special where Olaf goes around looking for Christmas traditions. The menorah is not a Christmas tradition, for goodness sake. That was just stupid of Olaf, even for him.
In fact, it feels anti-Semitic to treat it like a one-note thing. It doesn't help the "Walt is a Nazi" case, although Walt is NOT anti-Semitic.