While the character style can be overdone, I actually like the way Flynn is handled. His entire story in the movie is about his true character conflicting with his own perceived image and the persona he's built up for years. I always felt that his heart was just as good, just as strong, as Aladdin's, but that he hated to admit it. Stuck in the underworld for so long, where it's so easy to get hurt, he shielded himself, building up this "tough guy" image that was needed to survive in that world, and would protect him. But once he gets into a situation where caring helps him, it threatens to tear apart all he's built. He actually goes overboard on conforming to his persona because he sees it being threatened, and he's scared of what it would mean for him. It always seemed that he was forcing it, overcompensating, versus just acting on his basic feelings and instincts. And he learns to trust and open himself up again over the course of the movie.
And I completely disagree about Kristoff.
Uh huh. And tell me, what do you know about the personality traits of royalty from another country?The day before, he could less, that a young eighteen-year-old girl was going to marry a dangerous psycho, that finds pleasure in decapitation.
To me, it was very clear that Kristoff had problems with her marrying a guy she just met from the very beginning. He thought it was weird and crazy and moving way too fast, and his reaction showed that from the beginning. But, he didn't feel it was his place to say more than he did. And, frankly, he was right. For one thing, Anna is royalty. But, for another, he just met her. Yes, her marrying someone she just met is weird, but he only met her five minutes ago himself. What position is he in to judge her life or her choices? He didn't know anything about the other prince, except that she wanted to marry him. He could've been a paragon of virtue and justice and the greatest guy on the planet for all he knows.
Kristoff did something when her heart froze, because that was when he was actually in a place where he had to take a stand. Her life depended on the relationship being true love, he knew she probably hadn't found that in a day, and he new he had to try to help her some way. Had she been unfrozen, but nothing else occurred, he'd still have let her marry the guy. Because it's her choice, and he knows that.