Most major releases lie low for at least a couple of months before resurfacing on DVD, but not Frozen (Disney, U) arguably the first and certainly the best Disney animation since The Lion King to attain the status of pop-cultural phenomenon. (There'll be a 10-year-old somewhere in your vicinity belting out its Oscar-winning empowerment ballad, Let It Go.) After trying to beat Pixar at its own game with Wreck-It Ralph, Disney has opted for the traditionalist formula that saw The Little Mermaid revive its fortunes 25 years ago: updating a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale (The Snow Queen, in this case) with girlish pluck and kicky showtunes.
The results are mostly smashing, and not as backward-looking as you might expect. There's a dash of feminist self-sufficiency to the this story of a Nordic princess attempting to rescue her land from an eternal winter unwittingly unleashed by her older sister, whose own arc of man-free liberation carries a faintly disguised gay subtext ("conceal, don't feel well, now they know") that has gratifyingly annoyed the American far right. That's not the only reason to treasure a film that will be a fixture in many family households until Christmas and beyond.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/30/frozen-disney-survive-plague-carrie-returned
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