10 Movies That Suffered Undeserved Fan Backlash
6. Frozen
The rare case of a single element turned almost everyone against an entire movie. You already know what it is, it's stuck in your head now like it's stuck in ours. And depending on who you are, how active you were online around 2013-14, you're either humming along, or falling into a homicidal rage from which there is no return. Let It Go - through its uncompromising and endless marketing after the film's release - has become the go to song to send people into an overly exaggerated homicidal rage. Yesterday it was Hakuna Matada, today it's Let It Go.
Suddenly Disney's newest darling became the internet's favorite film to mock, the song even turning people on the rest of the movie, which is just flat out ridiculous. If you weren't aware of how ubiquitous the marketing for this movie and song were, you would think that the backlash against this movie was over absolutely nothing. Mostly because, yes, Let It Go is a great song.
Yes, other Disney films since have subverted the Disney archetypes a lot better (Moana in particular does a lot with the formula) but Frozen was the first big Disney film to really dedicate itself to this so it's no wonder it doesn't explore everything later films do. It's been 6 years since the release of Frozen, and we're on the cusp of the sequel. It's high time the haters learned to follow the film's advice.