Frozen

Disney has taken Hans Christian Anderson's classic fairy tale, The Snow Queen and turned it into an animated feature.  As with most (if not all) Disney movies, it starts off one or both parents die.  That bothers me but I understand the idea that in order to make the children watching it believe they can thrive, they must see other kids succeeding without adults help.

This is the story of two sisters, Anna and Elsa.  Elsa is the snow queen but gets in trouble when the fear of hurting her sister overpowers herself. As the story progresses, we meet many characters but Olaf as the snowman is the essential comic relief.  Kristoff and Sven help Anna try to help Elsa overcome her fear and Hans provides an interesting plot twist.

SPOILER ALERT: Disney could have followed the usual fairy tale where girl and boy fall in love but instead we are focused on the power of sisters which is a refreshing change of tradition for Disney.

This movie also has wonderful music, in particular, Elsa's songs were sung by the amazing Idina Menzel.

I give this one and a half thumbs frozen pointing up because I actually felt cold watching the movie but thawed at the end from the heart-warming tale.