I loved Frozen.

I've read up a lot about the story and it's very interesting of how it came to be. The film is an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen. They started and scrapped the project more than once and it wasn't until after the success of Tangled that they really dug into it and found a storyline that worked and a Snow Queen that people would love.

Lots of good information on Frozen's Wiki Page.

Link to Frozen Wiki Page

quote:
"Hans Christian Andersen’s original version of The Snow Queen is a pretty dark tale and it doesn't translate easily into a film. For us the breakthrough came when we tried to give really human qualities to the Snow Queen. When we decided to make the Snow Queen Elsa and our protagonist Anna sisters, that gave a way to relate to the characters in a way that conveyed what each was going through and that would relate for today’s audiences. This film has a lot of complicated characters and complicated relationships in it. There are times when Elsa does villainous things but because you understand where it comes from, from this desire to defend herself, you can always relate to her. 'Inspired by' means exactly that. There is snow and there is ice and there is a Queen, but other than that, we depart from it quite a bit. We do try to bring scope and the scale that you would expect but do it in a way that we can understand the characters and relate to them."
— Producer Peter Del Vecho, on the difficulties adapting The Snow Queen[28]

I feel like Frozen will stand the test of time. I was a kid when The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, etc. all came out and trying to compare something with that much nostalgia to something new and fresh is nearly impossible to me.

This post was edited on 2/16/14 at 9:00 pm