The Tudyk Trilogy: Frozen (part 3)
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spiderbraidsRandom thought before we continue... It was already snicker-worthy enough (to me, at least) that Frozen opened on the heels of Catching Fire, to the point that you had a good chance of seeing those films' posters right next to each other...
(My own photo... with caption inspired by the Lopezes :-) )
But not only that, what does Katniss do in Catching Fire? Burn her dress to reveal another :-)
(Daily Mail/Disney Screencaps)
Back to the summary now... Hope you like Anna, because we're stuck with her for the next 30 or so minutes :-) So, she's riding her horse in search of her sister, and she's unsure about who to blame for this wintry mess: Herself for pestering Elsa too much, or Elsa for keeping her snowy secret from her ("She's a stinker") Suddenly, her horse deposits her under a bent-over tree covered in snow. Anna pulls on one of the branches and the tree springs up, dropping the load of snow on her :-D
We're into the evening now, as we find Anna climbing up a hill ranting: "Snow, it had to be snow... She couldn't have had tropical magic that covered the fjords in white sand and warm...?" Just then, she sees smoke rising from a chimney... and then trips downhill into a stream :-D She gets up, and the cold has frozen her skirt solid :-D Anna gamely makes her way to the cottage belonging to the chimney, and her frozen skirt isn't doing her any favors: "Cold cold cold cold cold..." :-) She reaches the cottage and hanging from the ceiling are two signs covered in snow. Anna knocks the snow off the bigger sign to reveal "Wandering Oaken's Trading Post"... and the snow falls off the much smaller sign revealing "and sauna" :-)
Inside the cottage, there are goods waiting to be sold, by some wacky foreigner guy (director of Bolt, and soon Big Hero 6, Chris Williams): "Hoohoo! Big summer blowout!" Lots of summer goods on sale, including "a suntan of my own invention, yah" :-) Anna wants winter boots and dresses, and Oaken points her to the winter department... which is rather meager with just one outfit and a single pair of boots available :-D Anna asks if he's seen anyone, like say, the Queen pass through, and Oaken tells her that she's the only one crazy enough to be outside in this weather. And then look who shows up :-D
The snowed-up reindeer dude walks over to Anna and says "Carrots." This confuses Anna until he points behind her. Oaken asks: "A real howler in July, yah? Where ever could it be coming from?" Reindeer dude: "The North Mountain." So he's got his goods (including a rope and pickaxe), but now his problem is, Oaken's charging him more dosh than he expects (and has). Oaken explains: "These are from our winter stock, where supply and demand have a big problem." Dude points to his sleigh waiting outside: "You want to talk about a supply and demand problem? I sell ice for a living." Anna tries to make light of the situation: "Ooh, that’s a rough business to be in right now. I mean, that is really..." She sees he's not in the mood: "...That’s unfortunate." Oaken still won't budge on the price, but offers to add a trip to the sauna (waving to the family already in the sauna... awkward :-)) or not let him have the carrots. Anna butts in: "Okay, just tell me one thing; what was happening on the North Mountain? Did it seem... magical?" Dude: "Yes! Now, back up while I deal with this crook here." That offends Oaken, so he tosses the dude out :-D So yeah, dude has to tell his Sven he doesn't have any carrots for him, but the good news is, there's a small barn next to the cottage where they can hang out :-) Back inside, Oaken offers to add in a quart of lutefisk on top of Anna's purchase :-)
Barn. Although reindeer dude is voiced by yet another Broadway performer, Jonathan Groff (who even got to properly introduce Idina at the following year's Tonys), he gets the short end of the stick music-wise, with just a singular song of less than a minute to his name, in which he plays his lute and sings about how Reindeers are Better than People, and imitates Sven agreeing with him in response. The crew revealed that this was a character thing, but also later revealed that the songwriters initially penciled him in for an extra ballad, but decided to cut it out...
Just like Idina...
(Disney Screencaps)
Anna overhears the faux duet and comes in wearing her new outfit (which rides a fine line between elegant and slightly dorky... like Anna herself :-))... and braids :-) She wants reindeer dude to take her up the North Mountain. He gives a response before lying down again: "I don’t take people places." Anna decides to rephrase that more forcefully by throwing him a bag of supplies, adding: "Look, I know how to stop this winter." He looks through the bag and finds the rope and pickax, and answers: "We leave at dawn.... And you forgot the carrots for Sven." And this is met with a bag of carrots to his face :-D Anna apologizes for that before saying: "We leave now. Right now." Reindeer dude chomps on a carrot :-)
We cut to the two riding in his sleigh. Reindeer dude: "Hang on! We like to go fast!" Anna puts up her feet on the dash: "I like fast! :-)" He doesn't like Anna putting her feet there: "Get your feet down. This is fresh lacquer. Seriously, were you raised in a barn?" :-D He gives it a spit shine and this grosses Anna out: "No, I was raised in a castle."
So anyways, he asks what's the deal with the queen going ice-crazy, and Anna recaps her tiff with Elsa. She brings up the deal with getting engaged with Hans, and adds, about Elsa and her gloves: "The thing is she wore the gloves all the time, so I just thought, maybe she has a thing about dirt." But all he's focusing on is the thing about Anna getting engaged to someone she just met, and questions the logic in that, just like McDreamy did all those years ago...
(Tumblr)
He asks Anna: "Didn’t your parents ever warn you about strangers?" Anna "...Yes, they did.... But Hans is not a stranger." He asks a barrage of questions that Anna clearly does not have the answers to, things like his last name and favorite food :-) Dude: "Foot size...?" Anna: "Foot size doesn’t matter." Yeah, it's not FOOT size that matters, if you know what I mean :-) Dude: "Have you had a meal with him yet? What if you hate the way he eats? What if you hate the way he picks his nose?" Anna: "Picks his nose?" Dude: "And eats it." Anna: "Excuse me, sir. He’s a prince." Dude: "All men do it." Would you believe that Disney included a disclaimer in the credits relating to that comment? :-D
Anna: "Look it doesn’t matter; it’s true love." Dude: "Doesn’t sound like true love." Anna: "Are you some sort of love expert?" Dude: "No. But I have friends who are." Anna's skeptical about his claim and would sure love to meet them, but for now, reindeer dude has Anna shush down, because Sven has suddenly stopped in the middle of nowhere...
Dude holds up his lantern and sees the light reflect off a bunch of eyes, and has Sven run, because those are wolves :-0 He lights a torch and tells Anna to just not fall off and not get eaten :-) But since Anna is the kind of princess that doesn't take crap from anyone, she wants to help :-) Dude's not okay with this and she asks why not? Dude: "Because I don’t trust your judgement." Anna: "Excuse me???" Dude kicks a wolf off his sleigh: "Who marries a man she just met?" Anna responds "It's true love!" as she takes his lute and smacks a wolf in the face with it :-D
A wolf drags reindeer dude off the sleigh, and Anna manages to grab his torch... Anna: "Christopher!" Reindeer dude is being dragged on a rope behind the sleigh, but still manages to correct her: "It’s Kristoff!" Honestly, could you possibly have a more awkward initial name drop? :-D Anna decides to set Kristoff's blanket on fire and tells him to duck... and tosses the blanket at the wolves :-) Kristoff: "You almost set me on fire!" Anna: "But I didn’t :-)"
Anna drags Kristoff back on the sleigh, as they're heading towards a chasm... Uh-oh... Anna: "Get ready to jump, Sven!" Kristoff: "You don’t tell him what to do! I do!" He gives her a satchel and tosses her on to Sven, before detaching the sleigh... While Sven makes the jump across the chasm with Anna, the sleigh isn't so lucky, and Kristoff smacks right into the snowy cliffside. The film briefly thinks it's directed by Michael Bay as the remains of his sleigh suddenly explode :-D ("But I just paid it off :-(") Kristoff is starting to lose his grip on the snow when Anna throws his axe at him ... tied to a rope with Sven on the other end, and drags him to safety.
Anna promises to replace his sleigh and everything in it and adds: "I understand if you don’t want to help me anymore." As she walks off, Kristoff tells Sven: "Of course I don’t want to help her anymore. In fact, this whole thing has ruined me for helping anyone ever again." Then he switches to his reindeer voice: "But she’ll die on her own." Then back to regular: "I can live with that." Then back to Sven: "But you won’t get your new sled if she’s dead." One beat later, back to regular:"You know, sometimes I really don’t like you" :-D Okay, so they decide to follow Anna: "Hold up. We’re coming!!" Anna: "You are?!... I mean, sure. I’ll let you tag along."
After a shot of them walking along a mountain ridge at dawn, Anna and Kristoff take a look back at the frozen (heh!) Arendelle main town from a distance. Anna reassures Kristoff that Elsa will thaw it, but he's skeptical about that. Anyways, Anna tries to point straight ahead towards the North Mountain... and Kristoff points her hand upwards :-)
Another pretty landscape. If nothing else, the film offers plenty of beautiful winter scenery... Sven gets his antlers tangled in a bunch of what is best described as Christmas lights-style ice, which also makes pretty wind chime-like noises :-) as Anna comments: "I never knew winter could be so beautiful." They're startled to suddenly hear a male voice: "YEAH...It really is beautiful, isn’t it? But it’s so white. You know, how about a little color? I’m thinking like maybe some crimson, chartreuse..." It's not Kristoff, certainly not Sven... "How ‘bout yellow--no, not yellow. Yellow and snow? Brrrr...no go." The voice turns out to come from a snowman... more specifically, the one Elsa built during Let It Go. He approaches Anna saying "Am I right?"... and is met with a swift kick to the head, instantly decapitating him :-D Kristoff catches the head and adds: "You're creepy" before engaging in a game of hot potato with Anna :-D :-D while the snowman's body running around like, well, a chicken with its head cut off (oh, you knew that was coming ;-)) "All right, we got off to a bad start." No kidding... Eventually Anna throws the head at the body... and it attaches itself upside down: "Why are you hanging off the earth like a bat?" :-D Anna reattaches his head right side up. Snowman: "Now I’m perfect." Anna: "...Well, almost." While the snowman makes a comment about having his world turned upside down, Anna takes a carrot out of Kristoff's bag and suddenly the snowman turns his head right into it, sending it right through his head :-D
Snowman describes his newly-inserted teeny-weeny nose as being "like a little baby unicorn", while Anna sees the rest of the carrot poking out of the back of his head :-D One shove later: "Oh, I love it even more!" And the snowman ogles it in a 3D friendly manner :-D Alrighty then, back to proper introductions... "Hi everyone. I’m Olaf. And I like warm hugs." And doesn't that sound familiar? :-) It takes Anna a few moments to remember him, maybe because of her memory getting Pabbied when she was a kid, but thankfully, he left the fun... Anna then introduces herself, and Olaf asks "Who's the funky-looking donkey over there?" Anna answers Sven... and then Olaf asks who's the reindeer :-D Anna answers Sven, and Olaf's like "Makes things easier for me :-)" The real Sven tries to bite Olaf's carrot nose and he answers "I like you too" :-D
So yeah, right off the bat, Olaf establishes himself as the comic relief, and much to some Disney fans' dismay, much of the initial marketing (including the Pixar-esque teaser) was built around him as if he were the main character... but you gotta get those butts in the seats somehow, right? Might as well do it with humor... and in any case, Disney knows how to make their comic relief sidekicks not only actually funny without being obnoxious, but also memorable... Most of the time :-)
Meaning, except for this guy
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Back to serious business... Anna: "Olaf, did Elsa build you?" Olaf: "Yeah. Why?" Anna: "Do you know where she is?" Olaf: "Yeah. Why?" Anna: "Do you think you could show us the way?" Olaf: "Yeah. Why?" Like I said, comic relief :-) Meanwhile, Kristoff takes off one of Olaf's twig arms and studies it... and then it smacks him in the face :-D "Stop it, Sven. Trying to focus here... Yeah, why?"
Kristoff explains: "I'll tell you why: We need Elsa to bring back summer." Olaf: "Summer? ... Oh, I don’t know why, but I’ve always loved the idea of summer, and sun, and all things hot." Kristoff: "Really? I’m guessing you don’t have much experience with heat." Olaf: "Nope!" :-D "But sometimes I like to close my eyes and imagine what it’d be like when summer does come."
Sounds like a cue for a song... And once again, we have a Broadway performer on board, though Josh Gad did also have some film experience pre-Frozen. Still, his prior experience with the film's songwriters Kristen and Bobby Lopez (on the decidedly kid-unfriendly Book of Mormon) helped him get the role, and he does a nice job with it :-)
So yeah, it's a song number titled In Summer that also gives viewers some visual respite from the mostly colorless winter scenery, as we go inside Olaf's head to see what he imagines things will be like, well, in summer. Featuring such colorful and bizarre imagery like Olaf walking through a meadow, Olaf lying on the beach with a drink, Olaf riding a sailboat and swimming in the sea, Olaf hanging out with sand-snowmen, Olaf tap-dancing with seagulls, Olaf sitting in a hot tub drinking cocoa... Pretty surreal stuff here :-) The lyrics get subversive as Olaf walks across a grassy hill... "Winter’s a good time to stay in and cuddle, but put me in summer and I’ll be a..." One guess what he encounters as he's walking ;-) Well, he hops over it and finishes the line with... "HAPPY SNOWMAN!" :-D Olaf runs around the grassy meadow and lies on a blanket looking at the clouds (shaped like himself, natch :-))... and imagines Kristoff and Anna eating sandwiches and Sven eating pie with him :-D Kristoff: "I'm gonna tell him :-)" Anna: "Don't you dare." Heh!
So yeah, Olaf finishes his song and leads the way for Anna and Sven, saying: "Let’s go bring back summer! :-D" Leaving the dumbfounded Kristoff thinking: "Somebody’s got to tell him." :-)
Coming up: Time to get trolled :-)
(My own photo... with caption inspired by the Lopezes :-) )
But not only that, what does Katniss do in Catching Fire? Burn her dress to reveal another :-)
(Daily Mail/Disney Screencaps)
Back to the summary now... Hope you like Anna, because we're stuck with her for the next 30 or so minutes :-) So, she's riding her horse in search of her sister, and she's unsure about who to blame for this wintry mess: Herself for pestering Elsa too much, or Elsa for keeping her snowy secret from her ("She's a stinker") Suddenly, her horse deposits her under a bent-over tree covered in snow. Anna pulls on one of the branches and the tree springs up, dropping the load of snow on her :-D
We're into the evening now, as we find Anna climbing up a hill ranting: "Snow, it had to be snow... She couldn't have had tropical magic that covered the fjords in white sand and warm...?" Just then, she sees smoke rising from a chimney... and then trips downhill into a stream :-D She gets up, and the cold has frozen her skirt solid :-D Anna gamely makes her way to the cottage belonging to the chimney, and her frozen skirt isn't doing her any favors: "Cold cold cold cold cold..." :-) She reaches the cottage and hanging from the ceiling are two signs covered in snow. Anna knocks the snow off the bigger sign to reveal "Wandering Oaken's Trading Post"... and the snow falls off the much smaller sign revealing "and sauna" :-)
Inside the cottage, there are goods waiting to be sold, by some wacky foreigner guy (director of Bolt, and soon Big Hero 6, Chris Williams): "Hoohoo! Big summer blowout!" Lots of summer goods on sale, including "a suntan of my own invention, yah" :-) Anna wants winter boots and dresses, and Oaken points her to the winter department... which is rather meager with just one outfit and a single pair of boots available :-D Anna asks if he's seen anyone, like say, the Queen pass through, and Oaken tells her that she's the only one crazy enough to be outside in this weather. And then look who shows up :-D
The snowed-up reindeer dude walks over to Anna and says "Carrots." This confuses Anna until he points behind her. Oaken asks: "A real howler in July, yah? Where ever could it be coming from?" Reindeer dude: "The North Mountain." So he's got his goods (including a rope and pickaxe), but now his problem is, Oaken's charging him more dosh than he expects (and has). Oaken explains: "These are from our winter stock, where supply and demand have a big problem." Dude points to his sleigh waiting outside: "You want to talk about a supply and demand problem? I sell ice for a living." Anna tries to make light of the situation: "Ooh, that’s a rough business to be in right now. I mean, that is really..." She sees he's not in the mood: "...That’s unfortunate." Oaken still won't budge on the price, but offers to add a trip to the sauna (waving to the family already in the sauna... awkward :-)) or not let him have the carrots. Anna butts in: "Okay, just tell me one thing; what was happening on the North Mountain? Did it seem... magical?" Dude: "Yes! Now, back up while I deal with this crook here." That offends Oaken, so he tosses the dude out :-D So yeah, dude has to tell his Sven he doesn't have any carrots for him, but the good news is, there's a small barn next to the cottage where they can hang out :-) Back inside, Oaken offers to add in a quart of lutefisk on top of Anna's purchase :-)
Barn. Although reindeer dude is voiced by yet another Broadway performer, Jonathan Groff (who even got to properly introduce Idina at the following year's Tonys), he gets the short end of the stick music-wise, with just a singular song of less than a minute to his name, in which he plays his lute and sings about how Reindeers are Better than People, and imitates Sven agreeing with him in response. The crew revealed that this was a character thing, but also later revealed that the songwriters initially penciled him in for an extra ballad, but decided to cut it out...
Just like Idina...
(Disney Screencaps)
Anna overhears the faux duet and comes in wearing her new outfit (which rides a fine line between elegant and slightly dorky... like Anna herself :-))... and braids :-) She wants reindeer dude to take her up the North Mountain. He gives a response before lying down again: "I don’t take people places." Anna decides to rephrase that more forcefully by throwing him a bag of supplies, adding: "Look, I know how to stop this winter." He looks through the bag and finds the rope and pickax, and answers: "We leave at dawn.... And you forgot the carrots for Sven." And this is met with a bag of carrots to his face :-D Anna apologizes for that before saying: "We leave now. Right now." Reindeer dude chomps on a carrot :-)
We cut to the two riding in his sleigh. Reindeer dude: "Hang on! We like to go fast!" Anna puts up her feet on the dash: "I like fast! :-)" He doesn't like Anna putting her feet there: "Get your feet down. This is fresh lacquer. Seriously, were you raised in a barn?" :-D He gives it a spit shine and this grosses Anna out: "No, I was raised in a castle."
So anyways, he asks what's the deal with the queen going ice-crazy, and Anna recaps her tiff with Elsa. She brings up the deal with getting engaged with Hans, and adds, about Elsa and her gloves: "The thing is she wore the gloves all the time, so I just thought, maybe she has a thing about dirt." But all he's focusing on is the thing about Anna getting engaged to someone she just met, and questions the logic in that, just like McDreamy did all those years ago...
(Tumblr)
He asks Anna: "Didn’t your parents ever warn you about strangers?" Anna "...Yes, they did.... But Hans is not a stranger." He asks a barrage of questions that Anna clearly does not have the answers to, things like his last name and favorite food :-) Dude: "Foot size...?" Anna: "Foot size doesn’t matter." Yeah, it's not FOOT size that matters, if you know what I mean :-) Dude: "Have you had a meal with him yet? What if you hate the way he eats? What if you hate the way he picks his nose?" Anna: "Picks his nose?" Dude: "And eats it." Anna: "Excuse me, sir. He’s a prince." Dude: "All men do it." Would you believe that Disney included a disclaimer in the credits relating to that comment? :-D
Anna: "Look it doesn’t matter; it’s true love." Dude: "Doesn’t sound like true love." Anna: "Are you some sort of love expert?" Dude: "No. But I have friends who are." Anna's skeptical about his claim and would sure love to meet them, but for now, reindeer dude has Anna shush down, because Sven has suddenly stopped in the middle of nowhere...
Dude holds up his lantern and sees the light reflect off a bunch of eyes, and has Sven run, because those are wolves :-0 He lights a torch and tells Anna to just not fall off and not get eaten :-) But since Anna is the kind of princess that doesn't take crap from anyone, she wants to help :-) Dude's not okay with this and she asks why not? Dude: "Because I don’t trust your judgement." Anna: "Excuse me???" Dude kicks a wolf off his sleigh: "Who marries a man she just met?" Anna responds "It's true love!" as she takes his lute and smacks a wolf in the face with it :-D
A wolf drags reindeer dude off the sleigh, and Anna manages to grab his torch... Anna: "Christopher!" Reindeer dude is being dragged on a rope behind the sleigh, but still manages to correct her: "It’s Kristoff!" Honestly, could you possibly have a more awkward initial name drop? :-D Anna decides to set Kristoff's blanket on fire and tells him to duck... and tosses the blanket at the wolves :-) Kristoff: "You almost set me on fire!" Anna: "But I didn’t :-)"
Anna drags Kristoff back on the sleigh, as they're heading towards a chasm... Uh-oh... Anna: "Get ready to jump, Sven!" Kristoff: "You don’t tell him what to do! I do!" He gives her a satchel and tosses her on to Sven, before detaching the sleigh... While Sven makes the jump across the chasm with Anna, the sleigh isn't so lucky, and Kristoff smacks right into the snowy cliffside. The film briefly thinks it's directed by Michael Bay as the remains of his sleigh suddenly explode :-D ("But I just paid it off :-(") Kristoff is starting to lose his grip on the snow when Anna throws his axe at him ... tied to a rope with Sven on the other end, and drags him to safety.
Anna promises to replace his sleigh and everything in it and adds: "I understand if you don’t want to help me anymore." As she walks off, Kristoff tells Sven: "Of course I don’t want to help her anymore. In fact, this whole thing has ruined me for helping anyone ever again." Then he switches to his reindeer voice: "But she’ll die on her own." Then back to regular: "I can live with that." Then back to Sven: "But you won’t get your new sled if she’s dead." One beat later, back to regular:"You know, sometimes I really don’t like you" :-D Okay, so they decide to follow Anna: "Hold up. We’re coming!!" Anna: "You are?!... I mean, sure. I’ll let you tag along."
After a shot of them walking along a mountain ridge at dawn, Anna and Kristoff take a look back at the frozen (heh!) Arendelle main town from a distance. Anna reassures Kristoff that Elsa will thaw it, but he's skeptical about that. Anyways, Anna tries to point straight ahead towards the North Mountain... and Kristoff points her hand upwards :-)
Another pretty landscape. If nothing else, the film offers plenty of beautiful winter scenery... Sven gets his antlers tangled in a bunch of what is best described as Christmas lights-style ice, which also makes pretty wind chime-like noises :-) as Anna comments: "I never knew winter could be so beautiful." They're startled to suddenly hear a male voice: "YEAH...It really is beautiful, isn’t it? But it’s so white. You know, how about a little color? I’m thinking like maybe some crimson, chartreuse..." It's not Kristoff, certainly not Sven... "How ‘bout yellow--no, not yellow. Yellow and snow? Brrrr...no go." The voice turns out to come from a snowman... more specifically, the one Elsa built during Let It Go. He approaches Anna saying "Am I right?"... and is met with a swift kick to the head, instantly decapitating him :-D Kristoff catches the head and adds: "You're creepy" before engaging in a game of hot potato with Anna :-D :-D while the snowman's body running around like, well, a chicken with its head cut off (oh, you knew that was coming ;-)) "All right, we got off to a bad start." No kidding... Eventually Anna throws the head at the body... and it attaches itself upside down: "Why are you hanging off the earth like a bat?" :-D Anna reattaches his head right side up. Snowman: "Now I’m perfect." Anna: "...Well, almost." While the snowman makes a comment about having his world turned upside down, Anna takes a carrot out of Kristoff's bag and suddenly the snowman turns his head right into it, sending it right through his head :-D
Snowman describes his newly-inserted teeny-weeny nose as being "like a little baby unicorn", while Anna sees the rest of the carrot poking out of the back of his head :-D One shove later: "Oh, I love it even more!" And the snowman ogles it in a 3D friendly manner :-D Alrighty then, back to proper introductions... "Hi everyone. I’m Olaf. And I like warm hugs." And doesn't that sound familiar? :-) It takes Anna a few moments to remember him, maybe because of her memory getting Pabbied when she was a kid, but thankfully, he left the fun... Anna then introduces herself, and Olaf asks "Who's the funky-looking donkey over there?" Anna answers Sven... and then Olaf asks who's the reindeer :-D Anna answers Sven, and Olaf's like "Makes things easier for me :-)" The real Sven tries to bite Olaf's carrot nose and he answers "I like you too" :-D
So yeah, right off the bat, Olaf establishes himself as the comic relief, and much to some Disney fans' dismay, much of the initial marketing (including the Pixar-esque teaser) was built around him as if he were the main character... but you gotta get those butts in the seats somehow, right? Might as well do it with humor... and in any case, Disney knows how to make their comic relief sidekicks not only actually funny without being obnoxious, but also memorable... Most of the time :-)
Meaning, except for this guy
(Tumblr)
Back to serious business... Anna: "Olaf, did Elsa build you?" Olaf: "Yeah. Why?" Anna: "Do you know where she is?" Olaf: "Yeah. Why?" Anna: "Do you think you could show us the way?" Olaf: "Yeah. Why?" Like I said, comic relief :-) Meanwhile, Kristoff takes off one of Olaf's twig arms and studies it... and then it smacks him in the face :-D "Stop it, Sven. Trying to focus here... Yeah, why?"
Kristoff explains: "I'll tell you why: We need Elsa to bring back summer." Olaf: "Summer? ... Oh, I don’t know why, but I’ve always loved the idea of summer, and sun, and all things hot." Kristoff: "Really? I’m guessing you don’t have much experience with heat." Olaf: "Nope!" :-D "But sometimes I like to close my eyes and imagine what it’d be like when summer does come."
Sounds like a cue for a song... And once again, we have a Broadway performer on board, though Josh Gad did also have some film experience pre-Frozen. Still, his prior experience with the film's songwriters Kristen and Bobby Lopez (on the decidedly kid-unfriendly Book of Mormon) helped him get the role, and he does a nice job with it :-)
So yeah, it's a song number titled In Summer that also gives viewers some visual respite from the mostly colorless winter scenery, as we go inside Olaf's head to see what he imagines things will be like, well, in summer. Featuring such colorful and bizarre imagery like Olaf walking through a meadow, Olaf lying on the beach with a drink, Olaf riding a sailboat and swimming in the sea, Olaf hanging out with sand-snowmen, Olaf tap-dancing with seagulls, Olaf sitting in a hot tub drinking cocoa... Pretty surreal stuff here :-) The lyrics get subversive as Olaf walks across a grassy hill... "Winter’s a good time to stay in and cuddle, but put me in summer and I’ll be a..." One guess what he encounters as he's walking ;-) Well, he hops over it and finishes the line with... "HAPPY SNOWMAN!" :-D Olaf runs around the grassy meadow and lies on a blanket looking at the clouds (shaped like himself, natch :-))... and imagines Kristoff and Anna eating sandwiches and Sven eating pie with him :-D Kristoff: "I'm gonna tell him :-)" Anna: "Don't you dare." Heh!
So yeah, Olaf finishes his song and leads the way for Anna and Sven, saying: "Let’s go bring back summer! :-D" Leaving the dumbfounded Kristoff thinking: "Somebody’s got to tell him." :-)
Coming up: Time to get trolled :-)
