Hello everyone....getting back to the movie Coco, we just saw it tonight and it was EXCELLENT! Interesting, informative, breath-takingly beautiful, learned about the Mexican culture, heart warming, got teary-eyed several times. Everyone clapped at the end. We all loved it.......AND......no one in my family like the Frozen short....we all felt it was too long.
Agreed. Felt annoying and something that had to be endured. I did laugh out loud at one scene but for the most part, I wanted to get on with the movie. Loved Coco and highly recommend it!That Frozen short was painful. They should have retitled it "Olaf's Xmas Cash Grab!"
THIS!! Our showtime was 10:00 and between the previews (which we knew to expect) and the short (which I’d forgotten about and was anything but short), Coco itself didn’t start for us until 10:40!That Frozen short was painful. They should have retitled it "Olaf's Xmas Cash Grab!"
Now that I've figured out / remembered how to do the spoiler text, I want to make a couple of comments of things I loved here.
Lee Unkrich & Crew should teach a master class in Surprise Villain Reveal. I totally did not see that coming, although I'm sure there were tips along the way. And way to go seriously dark, guys. Someone ended up reminding me a bit of Charles Muntz in "Up." And in the end we get a new Pixar couple to love - I really liked them. Of course I liked him before I even saw the movie, but had no idea he would end up being so important and moving.
Man, the more I think about this movie, the more I love it and want to see it again.
My kids and I loved it. I loved that they really focused on family. I feel like I learned a great deal about that holiday-something I knew very little about before. And I am glad for it.
I really disliked the Frozen "short." (It was not short at all-it was a full length tv episode.) My 6 year old has a limited attention span-just about the length of an animated movie. So I planned for us to arrive right before it started. The start time for the movie was 4:30. I looked at my watch when the Frozen short ended-it was 5:20! Between previews and Frozen-it was 50 minutes later! Sure enough, my daughter was getting fidgety by the end of the movie. But it speaks volumes that she still lasted through it.
The story line, color, and music were beautiful!
Yeah, I didn't hate the Frozen short by any means, but it was much too long. One might think they had done that because Coco ran short, but it did not (110 minutes - long for an animated feature). The Frozen short was designed as a TV special, hence it's perfect 22 minute run time (half-hour with commercials). Honestly, while I did enjoy it, it was too long for it's placement with Coco and probably should have just been on TV. Still, it had like 5 original songs, so they went all out on it.
The really odd thing about the Frozen short was that it didn't quite fill up the screen where I saw it. It had black bands on four sides. I don't know if this was just something that happened where I saw it or it was the way it was supposed to be viewed.
Coco was supposed to be shown in a 2.39:1 aspect ratio, but it would typically not fill in most screens which might be 2:1 or lower. I've seen mechanical shutters (some that moved into place after the trailers shown in a different aspect ration) designed to cover the excess part of the screen, but that wasn't used in the room where I saw Coco.
I looked it up, and Olaf's Frozen Adventure was made for a 1.78:1 aspect ratio. I suppose it was easier to just center it in 2:39:1 rather than having to release it as a separate program where it could fill up the screen.