What the corpus says about Frozen (2013)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Frozen (2013) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Frozen (2013) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:39:03 · David Sims (0.50)] Frozen ↔ The Incredibles · theme · Asking Frozen's director about Elsa's appearance is compared to Anthony Lane's creepiness about Mrs. Incredible. · "Anthony Lane wouldn't stop talking about his boners for Mrs. Incredible."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:44:18 · unknown (0.30)] Frozen ↔ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi · free-association · A riff on rock trolls leads to the Frozen trolls being cut from the Broadway version, set off by the Death Star catwalk scene. · "Is it so weird that frozen on Broadway, they cut out the trolls because they were like, yeah, that stuff wasn't working, huh?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:29:55 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Mandalorian · programming · After The Mandalorian the speaker wants new characters, not known ones, as a model for future Star Wars. · "after Mandalorian, I'm like, don't give me characters we already know."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:15:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Lou Romano ↔ The Incredibles · lineage · Romano's Incredibles work has a similar 2D/3D look, which made him right for Wendell & Wild. · "Right, particularly because of the Incredibles, which has that similar kind of like 2D 3D thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:22:02 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens · programming · The next Patreon commentary is Force Awakens, ten days later. · "The next commentary episode is the Force Awakens."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:02:11 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Incredibles (the host's read) · lineage · The speeder bike forest chase is a clear inspiration for the Incredibles chase. · "This is such a big inspiration too, clearly, on the Incredibles chase sequence."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:31 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Hangover Part II · lineage · Death Star 2 is framed as a sequel that repeats the first one, like a Hangover sequel. · "It's like hangover two."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:06:37 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ The Incredibles · theme · The cynical ending, where the big guy gets away, echoes The Incredibles on systemic issues. · "Right, it's like the Incredibles too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:32 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · A second, bigger Death Star is called a lateral remake of the first. · "We're kind of, it's like a lateral remake."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:12:57 · unknown (0.30)] Sydney Greenstreet ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba is said to be visually based on Sydney Greenstreet. · "He's based on Sydney Green Street, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:13:00 · unknown (0.30)] Casablanca ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba's court is conceived as Sydney Greenstreet crossed with Casablanca. · "The concept is he's sort of like Sidney Green Street and then Casablanca, yeah."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:20:11 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · lineage · Lucas's goofy special-edition additions anticipate the broad humor of the prequels, such as Jar Jar. · "It's weird how many of the Lucas alterations are like really goofy broad humor."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:29:00 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens · lineage · Luke's lost lightsaber (his father's) turns up again in The Force Awakens. · "Which then reappears, of course, in The Force Awakens."
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Frozen (2013); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Frozen (2013) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.