Thanks to its wide appeal Frozen became the highest grossing film of the year in 2013, a feat Disney hadn't achieved since The Lion King, which really stands as testament to just how good the film is. After a decade and a half wallowing in vain attempts to be "down with the kids" they finally remembered they know how to make good movies; they've been doing it since the thirties. The sisterly love, the bad guy twist, Olaf's obliviousness, Let It Go, the mountain shop owner; there is just so much to enjoy. Although one thing stands out as being a considerably weaker element; those damn trolls. The trolls first pop up in the prologue, with their obscure, mysterious magic somehow healing Anna from Elsa's equally obscure, mysterious powers, but it's their later appearance that really drags. Fixer Upper is one of the film's weaker songs and its general goofiness goes against the earnest delivery of the rest of the movie. It's not even progressing the plot - it's not setting up a character like In Summer or presenting a big development like Let It Go - instead spelling out something that had previously been deftly built to.
