What a waste of time this "22min" long Frozen adventure. Even my own kids of 6y and 7y were asking me when does Coco start. What happened to the traditional short animation movie of Pixar? Those were always so nice to watch. And only 5min...

"Olaf's Frozen Adventure" is an animated short film from 2017 and the most recent addition to the Frozen universe before the sequel of the Oscar-winning movie comes out. They picked this one to air before Pixar's newest Coco, but after heavy criticisms, they quickly revoked that decision and it will probably be a long time until a short film of this runtime will air before a full feature film again. Oh well.. but still you should not really blame this film here for the bad decisions made about it. It is like a weaker Frozen version in every regard. The music is not as good, the emotional impact is not as meaningful, the funny moments are not that entertaining and the general plot about Christmas traditions is not too significant. But that it is not as great as Frozen oesn't mean it's bad. The beloved characters are all still there, at least in the first and third chapter, the second basically only belongs to title character Olaf. And the looks of it are downright stunning again, we should not take it for granted. Arendelle is such a place to be really, especially during the holidays when there's snow everywhere. Could this short have been better? Most certainly. Is it a failure? Absolutely not. All in all, it makes for a good pick to watch together with Frozen if you want to rewatch the latter. I give it a thumbs-up and recommend checking it out. Don't be too harsh on it only because you loved Coco.

This spin off short of Frozen was shown on television in the UK. The animation is rather good, it zips along in a zany fashion but the songs, well oh dear. It has a rather few of them, not memorable and seems inserted to pad the short film out.Elsa and Anna realise they have no family traditions of their own. Olaf sets out to find some traditions that are celebrated and bring them back to the palace. Unfortunately some wolves get in his way and a hawk takes his fruitcake.Young kids will certainly enjoy this but it left me rather cold.

All right, I managed to watch this 22-minute-short (or featurette as this would have been called by Disney if this had been shown during the '70s) before the feature Coco before the studio pulls it after tomorrow because of numerous complaints of patrons thinking they went to the wrong theatre because of the length. Many reviews on this site are negative because of what I just cited so I kept that in mind as I was watching it. My verdict: Yes, it's a bit long for a short and the songs seemed to be a bit too many. Still, it's quite entertaining during much of the running time, there were some funny gags, and a pretty touching message about family in it. Olaf did not wear out his welcome as I partially feared and the fact that the others like him enough was enough for me to like him, too. In summary, Olaf's Frozen Adventure was entertaining enough for me.