People Really Hate The Frozen Short That Plays Before Coco
If you're planning to see Pixar's Coco, you might want to show up a little late.
Although the animated Disney flick is a critical darling with a sparkling 97 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, there's been a massive outpouring of disappointment with Olaf's Frozen Adventure, the 21-minute holiday short that plays before the movie.
A sequel to both Frozen and the Frozen Fever short that played before Cinderella in 2015, it centers on the eternally confused snowman Olaf (voiced by Josh Gad) as he goes door-to-door around Arendelle learning what people do for Christmas. You see, nothing was normal when Elsa's curse gripped the Frozen universe.
One of the common complaints is that Olaf's Frozen Adventure is just too long. It's essentially a full-length TV special, and there's good reason for that: Disney originally planned to release it as holiday special on ABC. The Washington Post said it "feels like the grinning house guest who won't leave, even through the party was supposed to clear out long ago."
But others are annoyed with the cloying plot and blatant commercialization of Christmas. Although, it's worth noting that lots of people do enjoy the short, the decision to put it before Coco is definitely divisive.
Check out some reactions below.
The olaf's frozen short movie before COCO was a torture to my eyes
it was a slow poison getting on my nerves
one of the worst things disney has ever made
made me love COCO even more
I am glad majority people globally share the same opinion like me#OlafsFrozenAdventure #BORINGAF— Ashish Chanchlani (@ashchanchlani) November 27, 2017
Sometimes I wake up covered in sweat and screaming, filled with the horrifying certainty that I'm STILL watching that seemingly endless Frozen "short" that played before Coco.
— Jhonen Vasquez (@JhonenV) November 26, 2017
Unspeakably dreadful. The songs were sludge; the plot, idiotic. It made me loathe commercialized Christmas, a holiday I enjoyed as a child, with a dark and molten rage.
— Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99) November 25, 2017
My review of #OlafsFrozenAdventure
1. I will never get those 21-minutes of my life back.
2. A short is called a short because it's supposed to be short.
3. A short before a Pixar film has always been A PIXAR SHORT.
Disney has gone too far this time.
— Court Rundell 🥕 (@CourtRundell) November 25, 2017
The FROZEN short before COCO unforgivably stretches the definition of "short."
— AADowd (@AADowd) November 25, 2017
Coco is spectacular but unfortunately the Frozen short that precedes it will eat your brain from the inside, then spit the amygdaloid rind that remains thereafter down your throat.
Arrive late.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) November 23, 2017
HOT TAKE: "Olaf is just as bad as Jar-Jar" and all similar takes are very bad
— Walrus R. Walrus, Queen of the Antarctic (@iamasomething) November 29, 2017
My 8-year old nephew, after the excruciating 20 minute Frozen short in front of Coco: "Nobody asked for that"
— Nicholas Gurewitch (@PerryFellow) November 25, 2017
Someone in our audience involuntarily exclaiming "oh my GODDDDD" when Elsa started to sing again was the hardest I've laughed at the theater in 2017 https://t.co/pBVngdwnfg
— Ross Kroeber (@RossKroeber) November 24, 2017
good evening to everyone except for the executive that doubted coco's natural ability to draw in an audience and forced a half an hour long frozen 'short' before it that made everyone wanna walk out early
— Calvin (@calvinstowell) November 25, 2017
On a side note, #OlafsFrozenAdventure was a total cringe fest that was always either boring or oddly entertaining for all the wrong reasons. Every time a new song broke out, there were audible sighs from the audience.
— Mitchell Black (@mitch_black4012) November 26, 2017
making us endure Olaf's Frozen Adventure to get to Coco is a metaphor for the Mexican American experience I just haven't figured out how yet
— JuanPa (@jpbrammer) November 27, 2017