So this is the famous Frozen!

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2019)

I am so not the demographic that this film is made for that I hope I can be forgiven for not loving it. A big part of this is that I just don't love the Pixar animation style, and I don't think this film makes particularly good use of that technology. There were a couple of sequences that jumped out at me for being too obviously motion-captured in a way that took me out of the film.
Being someone who's spent most of my life in a Frozen style climate, I was also uncomfortable with the unrealistically light clothing the characters wore in the snow and ice--in a non-animated world they would all be disfigured by severe frostbite if not struck down by hypothermia. You can tell this was a film written, designed and executed in Southern California. I could also tell this was made to be seen in IMAX, and trace the direct line from the snow antics in this to the new Grinch (also the big reindeer sidekick.)
I don't remember the specifics of the original Hans Christian Andersen story, except that I found it ultra-creepy when I read it as a child. I do think the filmmakers did a good job of Disneyfying it as well as introducing the Bechdel-friendly element of making the protagonists two sisters instead of boy-girl sweethearts. Which I suspect is the real secret of this film's success: TWO awesome princesses in one movie! Finally, two little girls can play princesses from the same movie at the same time!
One of the things that made me hesitate to watch this for so long was the ghastly "Goofy" look of Olaf. Josh Gad did absolute wonders in making this hideously designed character not only tolerable but a pleasure to listen to if not watch.