okay the Coco + Olaf’s Frozen Adventure thing needs some explanation because i just found out about it today and im still cracking up
Olaf’s Frozen Adventure was supposed to be the next part in the Frozenverse that was set to be a holiday special on ABC, but for whatever reason, that fell through and it instead aired in front of airings of Coco, continuing Pixar’s tradition of airing short standalone films in front of their full feature-length films
only… the key word here is “short.” i definitely don’t remember any Pixar short being longer than 5 minutes, but Olaf’s Frozen Adventure was originally set to be a holiday special… on TV. a holiday special the length of a TV show
ie, ~twenty one minutes long
opinions of the short itself vary wildly, but pretty much everyone universally agrees that it was far too long to be played as an “opening act”
combined with the fact that the short wasn’t shown during critic screenings, meaning reviews of the movie did not have any clue about the short’s existence, the “short” led to some baffled and very unhappy movie-goers, particularly in Mexico. confused kids, harried parents (taking young children to the movie is hard enough for a regular movie, imagine an extra half-hour), and theater workers having to explain to a lot of customers that they were in the right movie
and, as that last post said, there was so much backlash in Mexico at least one theater chain has outright pulled the short from screenings of Coco
i cant believe that Disney decided to turn theatergoers into a captive audience for Frozen and made everyone, including children, hate their precious franchise
