To be irritated that Frozen has overtaken Christmas in our town centre?

[JamTarte]

Just got back from town centre. Celebration type stuff before the lights get turned on. Festive music, couple of elves ....... and bloody Frozen themed dancers/characters. Wtf? Has Disney bought Christmas now??

You guys are spurning me into action . I'm headed to mk with a clip board and pen . I want to see how many other folks are pig sick of the simple pleasures being hijacked. Christmas lights are pretty bloody basic .

I'm only a mild grouch, Isabella. I generally think Disney films are pretty good and The Jungle Book features in my top 3 films of all time. But Frozen is pretty poor - and the singing really rather screechy.

But you're talking old Disney Argy . Modern Disney is dreadful and lacking in joy without a huge moral message attached .

I totally don't get the fuss about that bloody film. It's shit! There are a zillion better Disney films to choose from.

My son absolutely loves Frozen and I would love it if our Christmas lights feature it.

I saw a bit of Frozen at a friend's house (she has daughters). What bothered me most about it was the way one of the princesses was walking with exaggerated swaying hips. I mean, really?? Sexual characteristics in a children's film? Don't remember any of that in Watership Down. Mind you, it did have some nasty rabbit death scenes.

To be fair to the movie, JamTarte, it does contain a stupid Prince with whom the stupid princess falls in love, but after several characters tell her in horror that you can't marry someone you've only just met and don't know and she sitters on about True Love he turns out to be a creepy self-centred abusive bastard prince. So that's a lot more original than a wicked witch in the villain stakes (admittedly she does then fall for the only other single bloke in the film, but as they take a week or so to get up to a little light snogging and there's no talk of marriage she is at least beginning to learn from her mistakes).

I think must be on crack this weekend I love Waltons first description of MKs new Santa experience.

I've only driven past MK but my brother used to have to work and drive there from Hackney and detested the place or was that just the drive there and back?!

Sorry I meant Waltons and a few other threads have had my sniggering with tears running (no alcohol) which is rare for me but vair welcome .

Modern Disney can be good - I liked Aladdin (ok, maybe not so modern…).

YAB totally U!

Love Elsa and Anna. In fact I want to be Elsa. And I wish I had a Kristoff. And the songs are wonderful until you can't stop singing the bastards. And Olaf is sweet.

Having said all this if I didn't have kids and all this was everywhere I know I'd be pissed off too. But since I do, yabu.

Sorry, but the Milton Keynes display ... maybe it is too early and more is going to be put up?

I'll be gutted if the display is rubbish now, we were going to take DD (9 months) to see it. It's an hour from us.

I didn't see it last year (too hugely preg. to waddle that far) but the year before it was the castle with a beautiful night sky wasn't it?

Well if any of you lovelies get to mk ,please let me know what you think . I hope it's not just me slipping into a bitter bile filled middle age .
And for any novice mk visitors , do pop to The Frog . It's the best thing about Mk (apart from The Dons). It's a singing ,bubble blowing timepiece that marks every hour and half hour.
You watch for free . Well until the grabbing bastards build a plastic igloo over that too and charge is for the pleasure .
Thanks for the thread op- I needed to vent about lights !

I've never hear of Frozen and I've never hear of television or Milton Keynes or Christmas.

I win the thread

Heard

We went to MK today - agree, it's shit. It's always been lovely and we've taken the DD's every year for ages. What a disappointment.

I have 3 boys who all detest Frozen and yet have been expected to sit through it by besotted female teachers during end of term activities at school.
Our town is also going for a Frozen theme for the lights switch on this year so obviously my kids are "delighted". Oldest one is going to have to be restrained from heckling, I suspect.
Puerile Disney crap has no place in my Christmas.

Frozen is a great movie! I know this, because I have actually taken the time to watch it, unlike some of the people who have chosen to comment on a film they've never even seen!

Do you even know how stupid it sounds when you say something like "I hate this movie, even though I've never seen it"? Judging by all the comments from the Frozen & Disney haters, I'd say this thread is like fly paper for morons. I obviously don't belong here, but I felt the need to comment since stupid people are like dead people - they don't know they're stupid!

OK, bye!

YABU. Back in the 80s, when I was a child, Christmas meant cribs, angels, Nativity sets, school carol service in the local Gothic church, mince pies, sherry and stuff like that, good and traditional and perfectly capable of being enjoyed regardless of one's religious views. Now it's all Santa Claus and Jingle Bells Rock. There is some mysterious law stating that no decoration with religious connotations can ever be exhibited. Most people have no idea what a carol is. They think it's something written by Bing Crosby.

So as Christmas is already bad enough, I'd treat a Frozen theme as a change for the better.

FWIW my two DDs (9 and 6) are a bit meh about Frozen. I think they've seen it twice, but certainly aren't clamouring for a repeat.

toad I've seen frozen on play dates with my dc. Its rather irritating.

Missed seeing take that with the regent street light switch on lastnight last night. Agree re the night in the museum. We didnt get it. New bond street nights were lovely though, feathers. Re frozen if i didnt have a 6 year old neice i wouldnt know anything about it. I even took a trip into a disney stop and there were limited frozen stuff for sell (covent garden). Maybe london not interested in frozen.

Iceharvester - Happy Christmas to you too!

It never stopped raining here so I imagine all the Frozen characters in town got absolutely trashed. Hahahahahahahaha

I too hate the fact that some displays are taken over by films. And I say that as a huge Disney fan - I love the movies but detest most of the merchandise.

Christmas lights should be beautiful not an advert.