Frozen

***Frozen*** is a 2013 American animated musical fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The TBD Disney animated feature film, the film was directed by Don Bluth, Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee (in her feature directorial debut) and produced by Peter Del Vecho, from a screenplay written by Lee, and a story by Buck, Lee, and Shane Morris. It stars the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff, Miranda Cosgrove, Jeff Bergman, and Santino Fontana. *Frozen* tells the story of centers fearless optimist but dimwitted Princess Anna, who embarks on a perilous journey to save her kingdom from a curse accidentally conjured by her older sister, Queen Elsa. Along the way, she partners up with a misanthropic mountain man, a gang of seven robber children, a bunch of talking animals, and an enchanted snowman with dreams of experiencing the other seasons.

*Frozen* was pitched in 2011 as a screenplay by Jennifer Lee, who co-directed with Don Bluth and Chris Buck. The film features the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, TBD, TBD, and Santino Fontana. Christophe Beck was hired to compose the film's orchestral score, while Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote the songs. *Frozen* had its general theatrical release on November 27, 2013. It was praised for its visuals, screenplay, themes, music, and voice acting; some film critics consider *Frozen* to be one of Disney's best animated films since the studio's renaissance era. *Frozen* received two awards at the 86th Academy Awards, and numerous other accolades.

During its theatrical run, the film was a significant commercial success, earning $1.280 billion in worldwide box office revenue, overtaking *Toy Story 3* to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time, and carried its position until it was overtaken by the remake of *The Lion King* in 2019. It also became the fifth highest-grossing film of all time and the highest-grossing film of 2013. By January 2015, the film became the best-selling Blu-ray Disc in the United States.

## Plot

The movie begins with a crew of ice harvesters collecting ice from a frozen lake in the Scandinavian mountains ("Frozen Heart"). Among them is an 8-year-old orphan boy named Kristoff and his reindeer calf Sven, who try to emulate the harvesters but are always shut out. After collecting enough ice, the harvesters load it onto their sled and depart.

The scene changes to a castle in the kingdom of Arendelle. That night, 5-year-old Princess Anna is restless, so she tries to wake up her 8-year-old sister Elsa to play. Elsa playfully brushes her sister off until Anna mischievously asks, "Do you want to build a snowman?", to which Elsa delightedly agrees.

The sisters run down to the ballroom and create a winter field of snow using Elsa's snow magic, enjoying their time with plenty of merriment. They build a snowman, who Elsa names Olaf, claiming "I like warm hugs!" The girls play gleefully with Olaf until Anna makes a leap as Elsa slips on the ice and the blast of power meant to create a pile of snow accidentally hits Anna in the head, knocking her unconscious and turning a streak of her hair platinum blonde. Their parents, King Agnarr and Queen Iduna, and their majordomo, Foghorn Leghorn, rush in, responding to Elsa's cries of anguish. Foghorn checkes on Anna and she is cold to the touch. Agnarr and Iduna hastily load their daughters onto a carriage driven by Foghorn and ride at full speed into the mountains.

As the royal family's carriage rides through the forests at full speed, they pass by Kristoff, who is still being dragged on his sled by Sven. He is intrigued by the trail of ice Elsa left behind by the window, and follows it into an empty clearing that appears to only be populated by a large assortment of moss-covered boulders. From the edge of the clearing, Kristoff watches the royal family appear to ask the boulders for help. Suddenly, the boulders all begin to roll into a circle around the royal family, then unfold themselves, revealing themselves to be the trolls. In fact, the "boulder" that Kristoff is hiding behind is revealed to be another troll, who adopts Kristoff and Sven.

Pabbie, the leader of the trolls, shows up and asks whether Elsa was born or cursed with her abilities. After being told she was born with it, Pabbie examines Anna and remarks that it is fortunate that she was hit in the head, as a hit to the heart would have been fatal. He advises the family that it might be best to not have Elsa use her powers around Anna, and alters Anna's memories, so she has no knowledge of her sister's powers to be safe, remembering only the fun they've had. Pabbie warns Elsa that her powers will grow, and although they are beautiful, they'll be dangerous if she cannot learn to control them, as fear will be her greatest enemy.

Subsequently, the castle is closed off to visitors. Staffing is reduced to a minimum, and Elsa is ostracized from everyone, including Anna, in order to protect her from the world until she can learn to control her powers, leaving both sisters distraught and lonely. Despite Anna's best attempts ("Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"), she is unable to rouse Elsa from her room. To give her some company, Foghorn gives Anna a puppy she names Fluffy. As the princesses are still young, the Queen and King leave them in the care of Foghorn as regnant, and sail to seek a solution to help Elsa control her powers, and they die at sea during a storm. Several years later, the sisters grow into adulthood, and the day before Elsa's coronation as Queen of Arendelle, Anna asks if there is anything she can do for her sister. However, although Elsa she sits sadly on the other side of the door, she refuses to communicate with Anna.

The next day, as Foghorn prepares the coronation. Dignitaries from around Europe are coming to visit, including the scheming Duke of Weselton, who wants to run Arendelle's profits dry. Nobody is more excited than Anna, as they are finally opening the gates to the kingdom. She is happy to see other people, and hopes for the possibility of meeting that special someone, much to Foghorn's annoyance, but Elsa is afraid that the kingdom's citizens might find out about her powers and fear her. ("For the First Time in Forever").

As Anna strolls out onto the streets, she accidentally crashes into a horse belonging to a charming and handsome visitor, and falls into a rowboat. The visitor apologizes, and introduces himself as Prince Hans of the Southern Isles. Though angered at first by the "clumsiness" of the stranger, Anna is attracted by Hans' appearance once she lays her eyes on him. She hurries off when she hears the church bells.

Elsa remains nervous during the coronation ceremony. The bishop reminds her to take off her gloves before she takes up her golden orb and scepter. Holding them, she turns to face the congregation, but almost immediately, she sees the gold on the orb start to frost over. She returns the orb and scepter hurriedly to the bishop and puts her gloves back on, narrowly averting disaster.

At the coronation reception, Foghorn introduces Elsa and Anna to the crowd. Anna's first friendly interaction with Elsa in years brings quite a delightful feeling to the princess, flustered at first, and seeing Elsa so happy instead of serious and reserved boosts Anna's confidence, prompting her to continue on with the conversation. They're interrupted afterward by Foghorn introducing the Duke of Weselton who offers Elsa her first dance as queen. Elsa politely declines the offer, but instead playfully volunteers Anna, much to the Duke's delight nonetheless, and the two head off into a comical dance scene. Elsa can't resist chuckling seeing Anna get innocently flustered by the Duke's over-the-top (and incredibly terrible) dancing skills. This causes Anna to feel just as whimsical about the entire matter, for seeing Elsa in such a state is a sight. Anna returns by Elsa's side afterward, commenting on how well things have been going through the day, and expresses her wishes to have things the way they were that night all the time. Elsa does agree though her smile, unfortunately, fades away, and she reluctantly denies Anna's wishes all at once despite failing to explain why.

Anna and Hans then sneak off to spend the evening together, quickly realizing the mutual attraction between them. The romantic dance eventually leads to an entire date ("Love is an Open Door"), with the entire night of the young couple being spent bonding. Hans, during their time together, learns of Anna's longing of having someone special in her life, with her sister, apparently developing a dislike of being around her by suddenly shutting Anna out one day when they were kids. Hans openly relates to this, only furthering Anna's connection with him. He then promises to never shut Anna out, unlike Elsa, much to the Princess's absolute joy.

By the end of their tour throughout the kingdom, Hans proposes to Anna right on the spot which she immediately accepts. The two head back to the ballroom, where Anna asks for Elsa's blessing on the marriage. Elsa and Foghorn are baffled by the shocking news, but Anna and Hans couldn't appear more excited going on to ramble about the wedding arrangements. Elsa ceases the sudden rambling by denying the marriage, much to Anna's dismay. She asks to speak to Anna alone in private, likely so she can explain why it's not wise to marry someone she just met without causing a scene that would surely get her magical nature exposed, but Anna refuses any private conversation, stating whatever Elsa has to say can be said to both her and Hans. Elsa, becoming impatient and frustrated, and Foghorn outright forbid Anna of marrying someone she just met, indirectly telling Anna she knows nothing about true love, while Fluffy angrily barks to Hans. This causes Anna to hiss back, telling all Elsa knows is how to shut people out. Although Elsa is visibly hurt by this, she continues to refuse with the argument only worsening when she asks Foghorn to order the guards to end the party early and close the gates. Elsa refuses to grant her blessing on the marriage, sending Anna off on a tirade at her sister, who now not only seems distant emotionally but also seems intent on keeping her from happiness. Unable to contain her emotions, Elsa makes a violent swipe with her arm, causing a barrier of sharp icicles to appear, nearly striking the guests and Anna. Shocked at her unexpected outburst and the way everyone responded, Elsa rushes from the room.

Panicking, Elsa flees with Anna and Foghorn in hot pursuit. As she bolts out the door, she finds a huge crowd waiting for her. When a woman asks Elsa if she's all right, she is frightened enough that she accidentally backs into and freezes an ornamental fountain. The Duke of Weselton demands her to stop, Elsa just pleads for them to stay away before another bolt of ice shoots from her hands in a panic, nearly hitting the Duke and his henchcats, Tin, Pan and Alley. She keeps running away, sprinting across the waters of the fjord, her feet freezing the water, and vanishes into the woods on the other side of the fjord. Anna calls after Elsa, but as she, Foghorn, Hans, and the other guests watch, the waters of the fjord completely ice over and the air takes on an icy chill. Moments later, snow begins to fall. The Duke begins to panic, declaring they must take action and put an end to Elsa's curse. Anna, however, refuses and volunteers to seek out Elsa herself and make things right, feeling that it is her fault for pushing her. With Hans being left in charge of the kingdom, Anna, Fluffy, and Foghorn head off on the carriage to begin their search for her sister.

Meanwhile, Elsa has found her way to a high precipice on the kingdom's North Mountain. It is here she realizes that far away from what she was taught, being on her own, she can begin to control her powers ("Let It Go"). She constructs an elaborate ice palace, changes her confining wardrobe into a shimmering ice dress, and vows to stay in seclusion, where she feels she can be herself, and harm no one else.

The next morning, Anna, Foghorn, and Fluffy are seen traveling slowly through knee-deep snow. Anna accidentally causes Foghorn to lose the carriage horse after it gets spooked by having Foghorn snow falling from a tree (causing him to yell at her). They travel on foot for days and nights. Anna is griping that she wishes Elsa had tropical powers instead of ice powers and is relieved upon finally seeing a building with smoke coming from a chimney. Just then, Anna slips and falls into an ice-cold creek, which freezes her dress stiff. She, Fluffy, and Foghorn walk the rest of the way to the cabin with the chimney, a place known as Wandering Oaken's Trading Post and Sauna, run by its burly owner, Oaken.

Anna and Foghorn quickly stagger into the store. Oaken has very little winter gear in stock (as it's supposed to be the off-season). Anna inquires if Elsa has visited recently, but Oaken tells her that she and her majordomo rooster are the only people crazy enough to be out in a storm like this. As if on cue, an adult Kristoff staggers in out of the storm, covered head to foot in snow, seeking to buy a rope, an axe, and carrots for Sven. Oaken can't help but notice that Kristoff is bundled up tightly. Kristoff replies that there happens to be a real howler going on up on the North Mountain. As Anna waits for Oaken to return his attention to her, Kristoff argues with Oaken over the drastic increase in the prices of the items he needs (due to Oaken claiming that there's a supply and demand problem since Kristoff is buying from the almost-bare shelves of the winter department), which ends with Oaken roughly throwing Kristoff out into the snow after the latter insults Oaken by calling him a "crook".

Kristoff and Sven take refuge in a barn next door to Oaken's store. They are soon met by Anna and Foghorn, who have bought Kristoff's supplies for him, on condition he takes them up the North Mountain immediately. Kristoff reluctantly agrees.

Anna, Kristoff, Fluffy, and Foghorn set off at night with Sven driving. As the discussion turns to Elsa, Anna explains to Kristoff what made Elsa go ice dreaded. Kristoff is also incredulous at Anna's foolhardiness in getting engaged to someone she just met that day, to the point that he and Foghorn ask her about Hans to see how Anna really knows about him ("What Do You Know About Love"). However, the conversation is interrupted when the sled is ambushed by a pack of ravenous wolves. Kristoff is initially reluctant to let Anna assist him, but Anna proves useful and manages to take out a few of the wolves by herself. There is a moment of panic when the trio see a gaping ravine up ahead. Kristoff hurriedly throws Anna, Fluffy, and Foghorn onto Sven's back, then, just as they reach the cliff, he uses his knife to cut Sven's harness. Anna, Fluffy, Foghorn, and Sven successfully clear the chasm, and Kristoff does, just barely, but his sled falls to the bottom of the ravine and explodes. Kristoff is at first upset that his sled is gone (as he'd just paid it off), but after "arguing" with Sven (which consists of Kristoff speaking his own opinion in his own voice and then delivering Sven's "counterargument" in a goofy voice), decides to help Anna, Fluffy, and Foghorn keep going, worried about the former's safety. Anna promises she will replace the sled.

Early the next morning, Anna, Kristoff, Fluffy, and Foghorn enter a frosted-over glen. They suddenly hear some new voices and see seven little children, a trio of talking animals and an anthropomorphic snowman named Olaf wandering into the area. The introductions don't go well, as the children try to rob them, with the children's leader, 10-year-old Tracey, hitting Foghorn with a bat, while the animals, a bear named Scooter, a beaver named Joe, and a friendly wolf named Larry, watch it, Anna screams and kicks Olaf's head off upon first seeing him. Foghorn ties up the children and Anna calms down and gives Olaf a carrot to use as a nose. The children, known as the Seven Robber Children, the animals, and Olaf then introduces themselves. Anna is immediately reminded of the snowman she and Elsa built as kids and realized that Elsa had created him. Anna and Kristoff tell the Seven Robber Children that they want to find Elsa to bring back summer, and Olaf suddenly grows excited; it's his dream to know the other seasons, as he fantasizes in a Bubsy-Berkeley-style dance number ("In Summer"). They do not see it fit to reveal that Olaf will melt in the summer heat but Tracy tells them that she and her "siblings" met Elsa and guided her to the North Mountain and everybody offer to guide them to her.

Meanwhile, in Arendelle, Hans is providing shelter and help for Arendelle's people. When the carriage's horse comes back riderless, Hans asks for volunteers to join him in bringing Anna back. The Duke of Weselton volunteers his henchcats, and secretly tells them to kill Elsa if they should encounter her.

Later, Anna, Kristoff, Foghorn, and Olaf arrive at Elsa's ice palace. the Seven Robber Children, Fluffy, the wood animals, and Sven waits at the bottom of the stairway leading up to the front doors as the animals' feet can't get a grip on the icy steps. Meanwhile, when they get to the front door, Anna tells Kristoff, Foghorn, and Olaf to wait outside, warning them that the last time she introduced Elsa to a guy, she froze everything (making Elsa look like an overprotective sister). The dejected Olaf, Foghorn, and Kristoff wait on the front steps and start counting down 1 minute while Anna enters.

Inside, Anna is stunned at the glorious interior of the palace and, even more amazed, to see the new ice dress Elsa has conjured for herself. Though Elsa is happy to see Anna and quickly forgives her for the argument that happened at the coronation party, she becomes nervous and suggests Anna leave, so she can't harm her. The conversation is momentarily interrupted when Olaf crashes the meeting (taking Anna's request of "give us a minute" quite literally). Elsa is astonished to find that her powers include the ability to conjure up living snowmen. As it turns out, Elsa is surprised to learn that her entire kingdom is frozen, and Anna is surprised to learn that Elsa doesn't know how to stop it. But Anna insists her sister's powers are no reason why they should be so distant. However, having seen Olaf, Elsa flashes back to accidentally hitting Anna in the head with her snow abilities, causing her to grow scared and nervous, demanding Anna leave. Elsa retreats to the upper portion of the palace, and Anna follows her, pleading with her sister that they can solve this problem together ("For the First Time In Forever (Reprise)").

However, Anna's promising to stand by her sister's side and help her, Elsa only grows more agitated and nervous, resulting in her magic flaring. This time, a blast of magic bursts out and strikes Anna in the heart. In desperation to get her sister to safety, Elsa creates a giant snow monster, that Olaf calls "Marshmallow", to throw her out. As revenge, Anna balls up a snowball and throws it at the snow beast. Though it left literally no damage whatsoever, the lack of respect was enough to infuriate Marshmallow and cause him to chase Anna, Kristoff, the Seven Robber Children, Foghorn, and Olaf down the North Mountain while Sven (who ended up getting his tongue stuck on Elsa's icy staircase but got it unstuck and managed to leave), Fluffy, and the wood animals run off into a different direction.

Marshmallow manages to corner them at the edge of a cliff, though Kristoff immediately begins digging a snow anchor by using a rope to safely guide himself, Anna, and Foghorn down the mountain to safety. Marshmallow, however, catches up to them, though Olaf and the Seven Robber Children try to stop him. Marshmallow, annoyed, kicks Olaf and the Seven Robber Children over the cliff and continues his chase for Anna, Kristoff, and Foghorn. He pulls them up to him by the rope, and yells at them "Don't Come Back!". Anna then grabs Kristoff's knife and cuts the rope. This sends the trio falling down, though they survive. With his mission to drive them away complete, Marshmallow returns to the ice palace.

As they recover from the landing, Sven, Fluffy, and the wood animals manage to find them. Then Kristoff notices that Anna's hair has started to turn white. Fearful that she may be injured, Kristoff takes her to his family... who happen to be a group of rock trolls ― the same ones that saved Anna many years before. Kristoff explains that as he had no family at a young age, the trolls took him and Sven in. A mistake occurs, and the trolls insist Anna and Kristoff get married ("Fixer Upper"). Anna collapses and Pabbie appears and examines Anna but concludes that this time her sister's powers struck her in the heart. Pabbie cannot save her; Anna's heart has begun to freeze and if not cured, she will become frozen as ice forever. Pabbie says "an act of true love can melt a frozen heart." Anna quickly tells Kristoff and the Seven Robber Children that Hans can surely help, and they take off for Arendelle.

The next morning, Hans' party arrives at Elsa's ice castle. Shortly after they arrive, Hans orders that no harm is to come to Elsa. While everyone agrees, the Duke's henchcats quietly disagree, still following the Duke's orders to kill her. The moment they come close enough, Marshmallow reveals himself from the form of snow boulders piled up by the base of the stairs and jumps right into battle. The archer immediately attacks the beast with their arrows, infuriating Marshmallow and causing his ultimate form to be unleashed. Marshmallow is able to hold most of the guards off. Hans, however, proves to be a fierce warrior himself, avoiding each of Marshmallow's attacks and eventually using his sword to slice the snow monster's leg off and cause him to lose balance and begin tumbling over into large gorge. With Marshmallow wounded, Hans begins heading inside Elsa's castle. Marshmallow, however, doesn't give up, giving one last swing in an attempt to drag Hans down with him. Marshmallow falls plummets down into the chasm below.

While Hans battles Marshmallow, the Duke's three cats have managed to use the distraction to barge up the ice steps and into the castle, where they corner Elsa. Despite her pleading for them to leave her alone, they shoot at her. She quickly forms walls of ice to block their shots. Eventually, she has Tin pinned to a wall by several icicles and is on the verge of using a wall of ice to shove Pan and Alley off the balcony. Hans and his men show up just in time, and Hans pleads for her to stop so she doesn't become the monster people accuse her of being. Elsa settles down a bit at Hans' words, realizing what she is doing, and halts her magic. Tin, still complying with the Duke's orders, aims his crossbow at Elsa's head and prepares to shoot her. Hans suddenly runs up and deflects the bow. The arrow is released and hits an icy chandelier, which begins to fall. Elsa tries to run, but the falling chandelier fragments hit her and knock her unconscious.

When Elsa wakes up, she's in a dungeon cell at Arendelle with her hands chained and encased in steel mitts. As she looks out over the frozen kingdom and realizes what she has done, Hans appears, telling Elsa that Anna has not returned, and pleads with her to stop the winter. Elsa claims she can't and must be let go to keep others from being harmed.

Unknowingly of what happened to Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Fluffy, Foghorn, the wood animals, and Sven arrive at the castle. Anna's condition has grown worse, a chill coursing through her, and more of her hair has turned white. Several of the castle staff escort her, Foghorn and Fluffy in; she looks back as Kristoff and Sven leave. Anna is brought to Hans and tells him that he has to kiss her to save her.

Foghorn, Fluffy, and the castle staff in the room quickly leave to give them privacy. Hans places Anna in a chair, leans in as if to kiss her, and then his smile turns into a smear, and he says, "Oh, Anna... if only there was someone out there who loved you." As Anna looks at him in shocked confusion, Hans explains that as the youngest of 13 brothers, he had no chance at claiming his family's throne as he would be an old man by then, so he went looking for a royal family he could marry into. Unable to get to Elsa, he made Anna's acquaintance and played on her naïveté, saying, "You were so stupid and so desperate for love, you were willing to marry me just like that." He intended to marry her before causing some form of "accident" for Elsa that would clear his path to the throne and make him the King of Arendelle. However, with Elsa in the dungeron and Anna becoming weaker and about to die, he plans to simply let Anna's frozen heart overcome her, then kill Elsa, ending the eternal winter and bringing back summer. Anna, now hating Hans for his cruelty, blatantly says, "You're no match for Elsa." with Hans replying that *she* isn't a match for Elsa. He extinguishes the fire in the nearby fireplace before locking her in the room. Anna collapses with shock, her hair now completely white.

Hans goes to speak with Foghorn, the Duke of Weselton and several other dignitaries. He feigns grief and claims that Elsa has killed Anna, but he and Anna recited their wedding vows before she died. In part due to the eternal winter chaos, this apparently is enough to give him full authority to declare Elsa guilty of treason and sentence her to death. The palace guards go to Elsa's cell but are detained when a wall of the cell collapses. While they are held up, Elsa freezes her shackles to the point that they shatter and then breaks through the wall to the outside.

Meanwhile, far from Arendelle, Kristoff, the wood animals, and Sven walk away when Sven urges Kristoff to go back and confess his feelings for her. Kristoff claims he has no need to, but as they look back at Arendelle, a mysterious swirling cloud of snow begins to engulf the kingdom. The group then take off towards the growing danger.

Anna's curse becomes stronger with her death process nearly complete. When the Seven Robber Children, Fluffy, and Olaf arrive, they find Anna in the library on the ground and quickly dying. They come to Anna's rescue and start a fire to warm Anna up. Olaf then asks what happened with Hans's true love's kiss, to which Anna reveals his betrayal, and that it was never true love. Not wanting to abandon Anna, the Seven Robber Children and Olaf stay by her side and try to think some ideas. Having lost her optimism for a whole, Anna brokenheartedly admits that Tracy was right when she said that she's an idiot and that she doesn't even know what love is. Olaf replies by telling Anna that love is putting someone else before yourself, using Kristoff as an example. This reveals Kristoff's true feelings to Anna, much to Anna's surprise. Suddenly, the library's window bursts open due to the strong winter winds. Josie (the 6-year-old and only other girl of the Seven Robber Children) rushes to close it, but then, using a pair of icicle-like binoculars, she notices Kristoff, Sven and the wood animals rushing across the fjord to the castle. Knowing Kristoff is truly the one that loves Anna, the group try to head out to meet him.

Tracy helps Anna up, but the storm outside is so worse that icicles spring up from the inside and block their path in the hallway. Going out a window, the group slide down the castle's steep roofs. Anna attempts to make her way across the icy fjord, with Olaf close behind. However, as the wind picks up, the Seven Robber Children, Fluffy, and Olaf are blown away, and Anna finds her hands are turning to ice. Even so, she continues to move forward, calling out Kristoff's name.

Meanwhile, Hans finds Elsa wandering the ice of the fjord. Thinking he's come for her, Elsa tells him to leave her alone and take care of Anna. Hans lies and says that Anna was killed by Elsa's magic. The pain of this causes Elsa to collapse, the snow in the air suddenly hanging in stillness. This then gives Kristoff and Anna the chance to reach each other. But at that moment, Anna hears a sword being drawn a short distance away. In horror, Anna sees Hans about to swing his sword at Elsa and slice her head off. With seconds to choose between saving her own life or Elsa's life and remembering how everybody called her "stupid" and "idiot", Anna takes one last look at Kristoff and runs towards Elsa. Just as Hans is taking his swing at Elsa, Anna steps in front of him and freezes solid. Hans's sword makes contact with Anna's frozen form, shattering and breaking it, and a sudden shock wave throws him brutally backward and knocks him unconscious.

The Seven Robber Children, the wood animals, Fluffy, Olaf, Kristoff and Sven arrive seconds later. Seeing Anna turned frozen solid, Elsa breaks down in tears, hugging her sister. No one is sure what to say when Anna's icy form begins to change and gain color. Soon enough suddenly melts back to normal because her sacrifice to save Elsa is considered an act of true love.

Elsa realizes that love is the key to control her powers, and with one move, she is able to melt all the snow on the ground in a matter of seconds, including the surrounding snow, revealing that they are on top of a ship. Olaf, overjoyed, smiles with glee, but the summer heat starts to melt him. Elsa restores him and gives him a small flurry cloud to hover over his body and keep his body temperature below freezing temperature, finally allowing him to know the other seasons.

When Hans awakens several moments later, he finds Arendelle thawed and peace restored. Anna then approaches the manipulative and deceptive Hans, who can only stutter with disbelief "But she froze your heart!" Anna coolly replies, "The only frozen heart around here is yours," and sucker-punches Hans over the side of the ship railing and into the water. She and Elsa then hug, with their friendship restored than ever. As the sisters hug, Anna looks lovingly towards Kristoff, showing that she reciprocates his love.

Once again, Arendelle is restored to normal. Elsa is once again accepted as queen, with everyone finally understanding that she is no monster but a creator of beautiful magic. Exposed as the manipulating lying traitor he is, Hans is arrested and deported back to his own kingdom to face punishment from his 12 brothers for his treason. Elsa additionally cuts off all trade with the Duke of Weselton. The Duke tries to claim that he was innocent and a victim of fear. But to no avail, he and his henchcats are sent back in disgrace, with Foghorn deliberately keeps on calling the Duke's kingdom "Weaseltown" to annoy him.

Elsewhere, Anna leads a blindfolded Kristoff to the docks, though briefly runs him into a lamppost. She removes the blindfold, and gives Kristoff a new sled, and reveals that Elsa has named him the Official Ice Master for the kingdom and that he, the Seven Robber Children, and the wood animals will live in the castle, so they can be with Anna. They try to decline it, too modest to accept, but Anna points out that this is a direct order from the queen. When she asks what Kristoff thoughts on the sled are, Kristoff picks up Anna and twirls her around in his arms, exclaiming he loves it and that he could kiss her. Realizing what he said, Kristoff immediately puts her down and stammers awkwardly that he'd like to, among several sentences of nonsense, leaving him embarrassingly flustered. Anna kisses his cheek, saying to Kristoff, "We may," and the two share their first kiss, officially beginning their romantic relationship.

Elsa creates an ice rink in one of the castle courtyards and promises to never shut the castle gates ever again, and Elsa and Anna both knew that nothing would ever come between them again as well. Elsa gifts Anna a pair of ice skates made out of snow and ice. Anna is delighted but tells Elsa that she can't skate. Elsa delightfully and playfully helps her, and she is later joined by Olaf and Fluffy. The film ends with everyone in the village happily skating in Elsa's ice rink.

## Voice cast

* Kristen Bell as Anna, the 18-year-old Princess of Arendelle and Elsa's younger sister
	+ Livvy Stubenrauch as 5-year-old Anna
* Idina Menzel as Elsa, the 21-year-old Queen of Arendelle who possesses magical ice powers and Anna's elder sister
	+ Eva Bella as 8-year-old Elsa
* Jonathan Groff as Kristoff, a 21-year-old iceman who is accompanied by a reindeer named Sven
	+ Tyree Brown as 8-year-old Kristoff
* Miranda Cosgrove as Tracey, the 10-year-old leader of the Seven Robber Children.
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* Livvy Stubenrauch as Josie, the 6-year-old and only other female member of the Seven Robber Children.
	+ Stubenrauch also voices 5-year-old Anna
* Josh Gad as Olaf, a sentient comic-relief snowman that Elsa and Anna created as children, who dreams of experiencing summer
* Santino Fontana as Hans, a prince from the Southern Isles
* Alan Tudyk as the Duke of Weselton
* Ciarán Hinds as Grand Pabbie, the Troll King
* Chris Williams as Oaken, the owner of Wandering Oaken's Trading Post and Sauna
* Maia Wilson as Bulda, a troll and Kristoff's adoptive mother
* Paul Briggs as Marshmallow, a giant snow monster who guards Elsa's palace
* Maurice LaMarche as the King of Arendelle, Anna and Elsa's father
* Jennifer Lee as the Queen of Arendelle, Anna and Elsa's mother
* Jeff Bergman as Foghorn Leghorn
* Greg Ellis as Tin
* Jess Harnell as Pan
* Richard McGonagle as Alley

Non-speaking characters include Anna's pet sheepdog Fluffy, Kristoff's reindeer companion Sven, horses, and wolves. The barks for Fluffy and the grunts and snorts for Sven were provided by Frank Welker who was not credited in the film.