Frozen II
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: November 22, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 47 Critic Reviews
Positive:
29
Mixed:
17
Negative:
1
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60
The New York TimesManohla DargisNov 21, 2019
The ensuing adventure is lively, amusing and predictably predictable with revelations, reconciliations and some nebulous politics for the grown-ups. It’s never surprising, yet its bursts of pictorial imagination — snowflakes that streak like shooting stars — keep you engaged, as do Elsa and Anna, who still aren’t waiting for life to happen. Read full review
60
VoxAlissa WilkinsonNov 21, 2019
Frozen 2 is still a plenty enjoyable film, even if it lacks its predecessor’s subversive spark. But for me, watching generative and derivative nostalgia spar within it prompted a different sense of the familiar: bleakness about the future of mouse-eared entertainment. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghNov 21, 2019
It adds up to a marginally more interesting experience than the first “Frozen,” but this sequel would have benefited from venturing a touch further into the unknown. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerNov 14, 2019
Even with Frozen II’s problems, the ending affected me. Because some things do change. Even if they always remain Frozen. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyNov 14, 2019
Frozen 2 has everything you would expect — catchy new songs, more time with easy-to-like characters, striking backdrops, cute little jokes, a voyage of discovery plot and female empowerment galore — except the unexpected. Read full review
60
Total FilmMatt MaytumNov 14, 2019
A solid sequel that hits the right notes and entertains without ever being quite as satisfying or essential as the original. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 14, 2019
It’s nice to see these figures again, but I couldn’t help feeling that there is something a bit underpowered and contrived about the storyline in Frozen II: a matter of jeopardy synthetically created and artificially resolved, obstacles set in place and then surmounted, characters separated and reunited, bad stuff apparently happening and then unhappening. Read full review
55
The AtlanticDavid SimsNov 14, 2019
The result is a convoluted, sporadically sensical, occasionally trippy film that can’t quite find a purpose amid all the manic world-building. Read full review
50
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenDec 10, 2019
A torturously convoluted extension of an already complicated narrative that can’t decide if it wants to be an origin story for snow queen Elsa, a romance for her sister Anna, a metaphor for living with grief and depression, or a parable about reparations due to indigineous peoples. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonNov 21, 2019
Still — and with the full knowledge of committing an atrocious pun — the whole thing left me cold, partly because there’s no actual villain and thus very little concrete drama. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreNov 20, 2019
It’s easier to think about Frozen II as a product than as a film because a (sometimes stunning-looking) product is all that it feels like. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzNov 20, 2019
I could watch the background environmental action here for hours. But then the second thought of my Frozen 2 experience hit: I really wish I was listening to Let it Go right now. Read full review
50
Washington PostKristen Page-KirbyNov 20, 2019
The sequel to the 2013 animated blockbuster is much better than, say, “Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World.” But Frozen II is still a disappointing continuation of the story of Queen Elsa and Princess Anna of Arendelle. Read full review
50
Slant MagazinePat BrownNov 19, 2019
Woke Disney, trying to navigate a tricky representational path, steps all over itself throughout. Read full review
50
ObserverOliver JonesNov 19, 2019
Both the songs (once again written by two-time Oscar-winners Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez) and the relationships between the characters — strong points of the original film — register with less energy and originality this time around. Read full review
45
Vanity FairRichard LawsonNov 14, 2019
While I admire the movie’s attempt to more deeply mine the identities of sister-princesses Anna (sweet, non-magical) and Elsa (restless, can control snow and ice), its discoveries are rushed and are served up half-baked. Read full review
40
SlateSam AdamsNov 20, 2019
Frozen 2 doesn’t have its forebear’s ungainliness; in many ways, it’s more efficiently engineered. But it’s also far less surprising, even taking into account that a sequel’s first task is to give people what they expect. Read full review
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