It seems Disney is running out of fairy tales suited to be made into movies!

Rating: 1/10 (19 September 2014)

Let me start with the fairytale the book is based on. The movie is said to be loosely based on the book "The Snow Queen" from Hans Christian Andersen. Now everybody who has ever heard that story will agree that the movie has NOTHING in common with that story except the snow. The inspiration was probably the combination of snow and queen, thus the movie tells the story about snow and a queen, but that's it. Not even the names have been adopted. To be fair, the Snow Queen is probably one of the stories not really fit to be turned into a Disney movie, because the story is highly complex and deals with a lot of themes and topics. Disney should have just left it untouched! I know since a few years Disney made a habit about changing the original story a lot (see The Princess and the Frog/ dt. Küss den Forsch and Tangeled/ dt. Rapunzel) because these stories, too, would have probably not made a good Disney movie in their original form. However the characters were so charming and the music so amazing (in both German and English) that I was able to overlook it. However Frozen bring none of that to the table. I was highly disappointed for the story is badly written, or better there is hardly a real story there. There is a little bit of that a little bit of this and but no personal growth of the characters, no development of events. The storyline rushes from one thing to the other, no background is explained and suddenly the movie is over. What's even worse, the characters are superficial and lack any charm. This is definitely a movie that will not make it into my Disney collection!