Frozen is the latest release from Disney and its
amazing. Based on the Hans Christian Anderson story of The Snow Queen it
follows the story of two sisters who are of course princesses. One, Elsa, has
special powers that she tries to keep secret all her life. On Elsa’s coronation day there is a
party, Anna gets over-excited once the gates to the kingdom are finally opened
meets handsome Prince Hans and instantly falls in love. When she asks for Elsa’s
blessing though things go a little wrong and Elsa ends up revealing her icy
powers to the Kingdom before running away.
Anna follows Elsa into the
mountains in an attempt to get her sister to come back to Arendelle and meets
Kristoff, the lovable Sven and a humorous little snowman called Olaf. Together
they travel to Elsa’s ice castle to try convince her to return home but Elsa
begins to panick and hits Anna in the heart with her icy powers. She creates a
snow monster to try chase off Anna and her friends. Once they escape the snow
monster Kristoff notices that Anna’s hair is turning white and takes her to his
troll friends to get her help. While they are with the trolls Anna collapses
and the Troll Priest says only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart. If
not Anna will be frozen solid. It then becomes a race against time to get Anna
back to Hans in Arendelle but once they get there we discover that Hans isn’t
all he is made out to be and leaves Anna to freeze before going to kill Elsa. Olaf
comes to Anna’s rescue and they race to find Elsa before Hans can harm her. Just
as Hans is about to kill Elsa, Anna throws herself in front of his sword and it
hits her instead of Elsa. She then turns to solid ice however she quickly thaws
because she sacrificed herself to save her sister, constituting an act of true
love.
Elsa realizes love is the key
to controlling her powers, she thaws and the kingdom and queue big happy
ending!
The movie is beautifully
animated with loads of new characters to fall in love with. Sven and Olaf are
two that stood out for me. Olaf seemed a little dim witted but funny, lovable
and when it came down to it proved he would sacrifice himself to save his
friends.
Another thing I loved about
this movie was the music. There’s the great little song introducing the story
of the princesses growing up called “Do you want to build a snowman?” Olaf has
his own funny song called “In Summer” but the song that stands out the most for me
sung by Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel) was “Let it go.”
Great movie, which has received
great reviews and definitely a must see.
