Review: "Frozen" is really nothing like The Snow Queen but fun

Frozen PG
New Disney movies need to appeal to adults and those with minds like adults by including puerile jokes on occasion, which is something lacking in Frozen, their latest tent-pole. That said, Frozen is loveingly crafted, has feminist themes, a heroin who fights for love, and the whole 'Brave' deal. The story is by the numbers. Some fun to be had with the goofy snowman.

The lackluster cartoon short at the beginning was annoying, not at all fun, as Mickey Mouse avoids a brutish Bluto rip off who steals Minnie, playing Olive Oyle. Come on.

Then we gut to the film set in Scandinavia circa perhaps 1820 or so, around the time of Hanz Christian Anderson, the author of The Snow Queen from which is it is very, very loosely based. It's not a bad adaptation. It doesn't fail like Emperor's New Groove failed to even be close to Emperor's Now Clothes. But after the wonderment of seeing another Disney movie as good as Tangled, and days pass, you realize the glimmer has worn off a little.

The story centers on, without giving it away, a young queen to be who is given magic powers that freeze things, and is locked away until she is older. In this time, the King and Queen are killed, leading to her eventual rise to be queen, thus The Snow Queen of the story.

In the Anderson story, the Snow Queen is something really quite different, there is an evil mirror that breaks that sends evil shards into the world and corrupts this boy and girl. (Snow White like idea).

In the movie, the girl is the queen's little sister, who eventually becomes a princess and on her coronation falls for an obviously over eager prince, and the Queen refuses to let her marry him, but during the ensuing argument causes the town to freeze and runs off. This causes the girl to go off in search of her.

This doesn't give away what happens from there. Along the way, the Queen, Elsa, brings a snowman to life, who becomes a sidekick to the girl, Ana and to a friend, Cristoff, she meets.

The two men in the story are partly a wink to Hanz Christian Anderson, as they are Hanz and Christoff.

Stay after the credits for a silly part involving an abominable snowman.

Anyway, as not to give away anything else, it has pretty visuals and looks dreamy and holiday festive, is worth owning later on bluray, and is a nice cute story about sisterly love and devotion.

I might still eventually own the bluray of this movie anyway, as it is a better film then Pocahontas and as good as Enchanted.

By Adam Browne