When Anna and Kristoff go to see Elsa at Elsa's newly-constructed ice castle, Elsa banishes them by conjuring up an ice giant, who literally throws them out. Then later, when the two Weselton goons invade Elsa's castle and attack her, she tries fending them off with more surgical applications of her ice powers, forming walls and jagged icicles to repel their attacks without killing them. Why doesn't she just conjure up another ice giant? She did so with little effort before.

The premise of this movie was interesting but despite the positive reactions from pretty much everybody who talked to me about it I wasn't all that impressed. For one thing, I couldn't identify a plot for Frozen. I'm sure it had one somewhere but I couldn't say what it was. I also didn't care for the modern American expressions and dialog considering it took place around the Renaissance period in north-eastern Europe.

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The story is basically the elder sister of a Scandinavian royal family, Elsa, has the ability to create snow and ice, amongst other things that aren't explained well, and injures her sister, Anna, when they were little girls at play. Their solution was to go to a clan of trolls who somehow heals Anna by causing her to forget that Elsa has this power. The parents close off the castle and has Elsa isolate herself from Anna, even after the parents are lost at sea. Three years pass, after at least ten years since Anna is healed, and it's time for Elsa's coronation to queen, as she is the elder, and she loses her cool, so to speak.

What has Elsa been doing this whole time in isolation, since apparently she has yet to control her power? They're royalty, so I would assume they were to receive the best education in the land, and with that should've came confidence and understanding. Even after their parents died you would think Elsa would reach out to Anna and they could work on things together, but nope.

This movie is more-or-less a musical, and many of the songs are decent, but this practically forces the film to tell and not show, so about half of them could be omitted. For example, the title song "Let it Go" is happily sang after Elsa flees the kingdom, runs up a mountain ahead of a horse, and creates an ice-castle when she should've been scared and ashamed.

Near the end when Elsa is imprisoned in her own castle and escapes she creates a massive snow storm, with winds strong enough to blow over large sailing-ships, yet several people still walk around simply covering their face.

I felt the scene in the study with Olof(?) the snowman had more emotional impact than the revelation that love is how Elsa can control her powers, which fell short of the mark IMHO. Then, what seems to be only a couple days later, Elsa treats her subjects with a frozen courtyard for them to skate on, which is strange considering she just caused them to endure extremely harsh winter weather in July for a few days.

I realize this is a kids movie, but even Disney has made movies that are both intelligently written and entertaining and not just the latter. The movie also felt very rushed and lacked depth for everybody except Anna. This is unfortunately the way Hollywood has been going in the last decade at least, a focus on effects and not writing, so in that regard I wasn't surprised. It was; however, still fairly enjoyable and I would recommend it to families with small children.

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AWhite: I also didn't care for the modern American expressions and dialog considering it took place around the Renaissance period in north-eastern Europe.
Luigi Novi: Yeah, I always hate it when fantasy films featuring rock trolls, talking snowman, and women conjuring ice castles and giant ice monsters out of thin air fail to get the accents right.

I agree Luigi it's like people complaining the cape of SUperman is wrong shade of red.....

It *IS* the wrong shade of red!!!

Yeah, Rodney, what's wrong with you? I mean, did you see that awful coloring on the Man of Steel costume? Hell, the yellow looked like it was dirty!

Well, at least it's not a shade of black.

I was commenting on what they were saying, not how they were saying it. It seemed like for most of Anna's expressions/dialog someone observed the conversation of a group of 16 year-old girls on Facebook and slightly adjusted it to fit the script.

When the rock troll first helps Anna, he removes part of her memory. After that, Elsa remains isolated from Anna and others. I assume part of the reason is so Anna won't remember and bring back the brain damage. However when Elsa finally does reveal her power, Anna remains unharmed and doesn't remember the past.

Then later when Anna gets hurt in the heart, the troll tells her the only cure is an act of true love. When Elsa learns about this, she gains complete control of her power. Would have been nice to have told her that years ago.

Well, at least it's not a shade of black.

Or fifty.