The best Disney princess movie of all time

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2013)

Technically, substantially and thematically amazing. What I liked best was that it was really a complete overhaul of the Disney Princess genre. With strong feminist underpinnings, celebration of both individual free will and communal cohesiveness, a more realistic and balanced perspective on love and romance, and a hilarious snow man, Frozen sets itself apart and can easily be seen as one of the all time best Disney movies.
Although the spontaneous, unrestrained and effervescent Ana is not too different from the traditional Disney princess (she's a bit more naive and dorky though), the repressed, fearful and tormented Elsa is a new type of Disney princess. Elsa's display of power are probably a first in movie history, as she is one of the few Disney characters and possibly the only female character whose destructive power is not depicted as purely wicked, but as natural unwieldy talent. Her fear-fueled aggression and retaliation is also empathized with throughout, and although she takes the slot of the villain, she is never signed off as one.
The ending has the best twist of all Disney movies. The saving act, the act of true love, is not a romantic act at all. In fact, romance and infatuation are rather discredited by the film itself. No, this movie shatters the long passed notion in movies, ranging from Snow White to The Matrix, of an act of romantic love literally saving a person's soul. Here, the act of true love is not the dependent and precarious reception of a romantic gesture, but the active and brave performance of an altruistic deed. And that just really sets this already amazingly well animated, well characterized, and well written film as one of the best animated movies of all time and the best Disney princess movie of all time.