Good but not a great Disney flick

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2016)

I finally got around to watching Frozen 3 years after it's release. The positive reviews said this was the best Disney film in years. As someone who grew up with the start of the Disney/Pixar partnership and the Disney renaissance resulting in classic films like the Lion King and the Little Mermaid, I was eager to see how it turned out..
Frozen is a technically brilliant film, Idina Menzel is brilliant as Elsa, but if you realize it is actually based on a fairy tale written 170 years ago by Hans Christian Andersen (i.e. The Snow Queen) you know there is going to be a happy ending like all fairy tales which sort of spoils the ending.
It is a good film in all and I enjoyed it, but I do not put it in the top echelon of Disney flicks like Toy Story, A Bugs Life, The Lion King, Snow White, I could name more that are better.