What the corpus says about Frozen 2 (2019)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Frozen 2 (2019) 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 2 (2019) 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 — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:48:26 · Joe Reid (0.40)] Frozen 2 ↔ Frozen 2 · theme · Defended: Elsa subtext as queer storytelling within Disney's constraints, the ice tunnel scene. · "Frozen 2 got no credit for being as like perfectly calibrated, queer storytelling as it is"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:47:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Toy Story 4 ↔ Frozen 2 · contrast · Toy Story 4 is lumped with Frozen 2 and Rise of Skywalker as films that threw out the entire screenplay and started over. · "Toy Story 4 falls into this weird thing of like Frozen 2 and Rise of Skywalker"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:47:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Frozen 2 ↔ Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker · contrast · Both feel like their screenplays were thrown out 9 months before release. · "which are movies that feel like 9 months before they came out, they threw out the entire screenplay and started out from scratch"
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:22:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Frozen 2 ↔ Trolls World Tour · kids repeat-viewing · Kids' movies bought on iTunes for endless rewatching, now moving straight to streaming services. · "has been buying movies on iTunes for his kids like Frozen 2 to watch over and over again."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:49:25 · unknown (0.40)] Frozen 2 ↔ Frozen 2 · dismissed · Counter: only 15% works; the rest is like watching someone play a bad game of Dungeons and Dragons. · "And the remaining 85% is like watching someone else play a really bad game of Dungeons and Dragons."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:48:47 · Joe Reid (0.40)] Frozen 2 · fun · The ice-tunnel Elsa scene with 'phalluses made of ice' defended as queer storytelling. · "tossing aside like these phallus is made of ice."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:43:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker · lineage · Sean says the Rise of Skywalker screwed up expectations and he wonders whether Mulan will become an influential text like it. · "kind of how the rise of Skywalker kind of screwed up all the expectations that we had."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:10:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · programming · Trolls had to be watched first because the sequel releases the day this episode comes out. · "knowing that the day this episode comes out, trolls world tour will also be unleashed upon the world."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:13:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker · theme · Amanda says the love interest tacked on at the end of Mulan 1998 echoes Rise of Skywalker's putting girls back in the romantic box. · "This is also what made me mad in Rise of Skywalker."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:34:57 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · programming · Katzenberg milked properties into cartoon shows, specials and sequels; Universal owns Trolls outright now and will continue. · "Casenberg always milks every property dry."
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Joe Reid · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · Loves performance-driven work (Elisabeth Moss in Her Smell, Paul Walter Hauser in Richard Jewell) and likes Toy Story 4 less than Frozen 2. Defends Frozen 2's queer subtext and Wild Rose. · stances: Frozen 2 deserved nominations for its Elsa storytelling; Hauser's lack of judgment as the best acting; Gendered acting categories exist because winners matter
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)

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 2 (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Frozen 2 (2019) 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.