An act of true love

Rating: 8/10 (15 December 2013)

Frozen is a new breed of Disney fairy tale 3D animated films, that tries to bring the old genre into modern day audiences, the first one being the hand drawn Princess and the Frog, followed by Tangled.
Both Tangled and Frozen have classic princesses fitted into a modern animated film. However in the latter there are two; Anna is normal but her sister, Elsa, has the dangerous power of freezing whenever she gets emotional, therefore she is kept away purposely from her sister so as not to kill her.
By making the antagonist the heroine's sister, it shows very accurately the complicated plot of two sisters struggling for their relationship to go smooth so that Elsa can stop the world from plunging into an eternal winter, created from her powers. The only problem is that Elsa was never loved as child due to her condition, and kept away from everyone for their safety.
It would have been so damned easy to make Elsa the villain in this film, but she is not the villain. She's a human being who is cast aside because of her special powers, and she rejoices in using them to fulfil who she really is: an ice queen.
The best moment comes near the end and it's an amazing twist that has never happened before in a Disney movie. You'll have to see it to understand it better, but it was definitely the favorite part of the film for me.
One thing I didn't like is that there were too many short songs. When the characters are only just introduced, they immediately start singing, which makes it annoying. It would have been better if we got to know the characters a lot more before they began their song, like the big hit "Let It Go" sequence with Elsa (Idina Menzel's voice makes it even better).
For some reason, if the animated Disney film is not a musical featuring a princess, such as Wreck It Ralph, Treasure Planet or Atlantis, it doesn't fit in with the "crowd", yet I loved all three of them. Frozen is definitely a superior film to Tangled and I hope that the studios will make even better films.