Released in 2013, Frozen was an animated fairytale adventure created by Walt Disney Animation Studios. With the rating being PG for the movie, I was hesitant to go at first because I was not a huge fan of kid movies. After hearing great remarks and listening to the its hit sound-track, I had to see what the buzz is about. Not expecting anything but the ordinary cartoon with a “happy ever after” ending, I scheduled to see it late one night.

The movie started out with a catchy song and an adorable blonde boy with his reindeer pet. The animations were breath-taking. Seated in the front row of the crowded theater, keep in mind this movie had been out for months and it was late at night, I felt as if I was a part of this magical land. The main character, Elsa, possessed the power to create snow and freeze anything, hence Frozen. Although the movie was not 3D, I felt as if the snow was circling around me as well; I was mesmerized. For being a Disney movie, I was surprised with how much I was feeling a connection with the characters. The emotions were so well portrayed through the faces of the animations that I was reacting to how the characters were feeling. I was in the journey through the happiness and the heartbreak throughout the story.

I had always been a person that loves a good comedy, but not really enjoy animated films. Disney had found a way to sneak in jokes when least expected and where it was absolutely necessary. After being protected inside the walls of her castle for many years, the younger sister of Elsa, Ana, was finally released into the real world. The audience laughs along with her as she discovers what life was like outside of the castles walls. For example, she was singing and pranc-ing around the land and gets run over by a prince named Hans. Never seeing a man around her age before, she instantly was blinded by his beauty, jumbled up her words, and caused chaos, which I believed everyone could jokingly relate to that at one point in their life. We followed her through the journey of love, her mistakes, and her lack of basic knowledge of the world, which causes giggles throughout the room. Humor could also be found through a character created when Elsa turns her land in the spring time back to winter. A hilarious snowman was created named Olaf. Every line that comes from his character caused uproar of laughter from every audi-ence member. He sung a comical ironic song called, “In Summer”, as he imagines how awesome summer is going to be. The whole joke of it was snow melts in summer, but he believed it was going to be this wonderful experience. Being a comedy lover, I appreciate the amount of come-dic relief throughout this fairytale.

Frozen had some underlining meanings shown throughout the film. To start, it showed how powerful love could be. Obviously, love is exaggerated when paired with magic in the mov-ie.

Elsa felt the way to control her powers was to close off the ones she loves, which caused her powers to get worse and harm her kingdom throughout the movie. Her powers were revealed to the town and she runs away into the woods. Ana goes after her to change her home back to spring time. While she tried to confront her sister, Elsa accidentally shoots Ana in the heart with her freezing powers. Ana is now doomed to freeze to death unless she gets kissed by her true love. Elsa finally realized her kingdom was in danger and made her way back to her kingdom. Meanwhile, Ana goes back to kiss her true love who she believed to be Hans. Hans revealed his plan to her that he wants to take over the kingdom and left Ana to die. Olaf came to the rescue and out of love melts for her, so she could go save her sister from being hurt by Hans. When someone risked their life and even dies for a person just like it was shown in the movie was a perfect example of True Love. The examples continue as Ana set out in a cold blizzard, dying, to save her sister. Nothing was visible through the snow until she only had little left to give she saw Hans about to strike Elsa with a sword. With her last moments, Ana blocked the sword with her frozen body, again showing true love. This was when the audience realizes that the love between the two sisters help control Elsa’s powers and cures Ana’s frozen body. I enjoyed the fact that the message of the movie was not that Prince Charming came to save the day, but a love between the two sister’s was unlike any other power.

I labeled this movie a “must-see” because I loved every element of this movie from the obvious to the not so apparent messages in the movie. It is very unlikely a person has not seen this movie, but if one happens to not have seen Frozen, I highly recommend it with two thumbs up. Frozen melts the coldest of hearts.