The Arabic of Frozen is frozen in time, as localized to contemporary Middle Eastern youth culture as Latin quatrains in French rap. Why Disney decided to abandon dialectal Arabic for Frozen is perplexing, and the reaction has been mixed. Many YouTube viewers are annoyed, with some fans recording their own versions of the songs in dialect. An online petition has called for Disney to switch its dubbing back to Egyptian Arabic, plaintively wondering, How can we watch ‘Monsters University’ in the Heavy Modern Arabic while we saw the first one in Egyptian accent that everybody loved…?
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 11:30:55 +0000