Frozen 2 Script Doctor

Somebody please throw Anna a bone here.

The ways in which Elsa is cool but Anna is not:

[cherriegetison]

Internet: Can you make Elsa gay?
Disney: We can make her biracial.

[john_]

Hot take: Kristoff wasn’t in character purgatory, he was just having an off screen affair with the Ryder, the other reindeer guy

[psyla]

Frozen 1: Elsa is depressed. She learns to let it go and be herself.
Frozen 2: Elsa becomes a weird horse girl.

[CaitieLou]

Frozen: Elsa tries to run away from her family, discovers she really needs them in her life.
Frozen 2: Elsa tries to stay with her family, discovers she really needs to be somewhere else.

[TheosGhost]

When Anna said "there's a water proof chamber in every Arendelle boat" I audibly gasped because I thought they were going to open some panic room like chamber and reveal the parents' skeletons

[pghbekka]

The story I want is about Kristof's parents. The ones who dressed their child in lovely little clothes and carved him a cunning tiny sleigh and gave him a young reindeer to tend to...and then lost him forever to the rock trolls, who, instead of guiding him back to his people, kidnap him and raise him as their own.

[marsupialsofmars]

Obsessed with how every time jenny does a rewrite for a franchise instalment, she is sure to liberally address the various merchandising opportunities it could present

[hailonyourparade]

i love when the water horse plushie appears on jenny's lap like a fussy dog that needs constant reassurance or it will cry

[loveandcupcakes]

Frozen Elsa: You can’t isolate yourself from everyone.
Frozen 2 Elsa: [isolates herself harder]

[agletdontforgetit]

My ending-
—Arendelle is destroyed. I hate when two bad things are going to happen, and the main characters are like “we can only fix one” but in actuality, both get fixed. I don’t think it teaches a good lesson about life and all that. Like, bad things happen. It isn’t always the end of the world. Same reason I didn’t like Ant Man and the Wasp
—The northern people help rebuild Arendelle, cementing the trust and connection
—This gives Anna a chance to prove that she is put together and confident enough to lead.
—Elsa realizes that she is happier with the northerners, would rather freely explore her powers, and can trust Anna to lead the kingdom herself. (Even though to me, Anna was never someone I thought could be the queen)

[ivanhagstrom]

I was so sure Ana and Elsa would meet an Autumn girl in this movie since I saw them being attacked by the wind in the trailer. It just makes so much sense to introduce one magical character for each season and Else being the Winter one, but I guess they didn't want to go that way.

[chookiemoombra]

“Elsa, do NOT use your ice powers on this lizard!!” -the best line in the script

[toadtad]

i know i hate that she’s “the 5th element” but *ice is water wtf*

[beepthefox]

I'm really high, and the idea of Elsa having white guilt in a Disney movie made me laugh until I cried.

[Calipepla]

The singing Elsa hears also sounds like the Dies Irae, a motif that composers usually use to signify death, so that could’ve been some cool musical foreshadowing that she was being tricked.

[DoomGoober]

The "Into the Unknown: Making of Frozen 2" documentary pretty much confirms that Jenny Nicholson's analysis is spot on. The drinking game with the documentary is to drink every time someone questions the motivations/reasoning of the characters in Frozen 2 and Jennifer Lee dismisses it by saying, "You guys are overthinking it" and everyone in the room goes quiet. Combined with the schedule pressure, Frozen 2 ends up a melting ice cream of a mess.

[dill]

Saw frozen two with a guy as a date. While Elsa and Olaf “died” a couple sitting next to us started VIOLENTLY making out. My date and I nearly lost our shit laughing because why the hell did they decide THAT was the time??? Like what???

[melodyborg]

Some of the outtake songs on the soundtrack actually tell a much more rounded story than the one we got in my opinion, especially Anna's first song "Home" has her singing about how she loves Arendelle and her people and wants to do more for them, and Kristoff's alternate song "Get This Right" ends with Anna proposing to HIM which is so much more wholesome and endearing than what we got in the movie, where she either ignores him, yells at him or forgets he exists.

I did enjoy this movie but there really is a lot of wasted potential here. I feel like whatever the original story was got rearranged and cut to the point that it's basically unrecognisable now.

[JustDuckiest]

If Anna had the fire lizard as a companion it'd really set up a neat "fire and ice" theme for the hypothetical third movie

[mchikos]

“So what’s the message? That Elsa comes from a wealthy family that will support her as she takes a gap year.”

This broke me lol