5 out of 5 stars.

Disney has a certifiable gem with its new movie Frozen. Following in the success of the wildly popular Tangled, Frozen is another fairy-tale movie, based off of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen. It is set in the small kingdom of Arendelle. Anna, princess of Arendelle, is sister of the recently crowned Queen Elsa.

But Elsa has a deadly secret she’d been keeping from her sister. She controls the frost, and if she gets too upset, her powers become uncontrollable. As Anna pushes her to resolve a conflict between them, Elsa becomes more and more agitated, until finally, after Anna has ripped away one of her protective gloves, Elsa shows her power.

This shocks the people, including visiting dignitaries from another country. They claim Elsa is a witch, and Elsa is forced to run away, Anna trailing desperately in the wake of Elsa’s cold power.

As Elsa leaves Arendelle, she sends it into an ice age, and Anna thinks her sister can reverse it, so Arendelle is a warm place again, and the nice mountain man named Kristoff can have his ice business back.

Years back, Elsa had been told by her father to, “conceal, don’t feel,” and she finally gives that up in exchange for building a massive ice castle at the top of a mountain.

As Anna goes to find Elsa, she encounters Kristoff and the pair gradually grows closer, despite Anna’s hasty engagement to Prince Hans of the Southern Isles.

I really enjoyed this movie, especially the little snowman Olaf, who “likes warm hugs.” This movie (and, really, all Disney movies) is good for any age, not just small children. It’s a good family movie, and it has a funny, heartwarming story.

It kept my attention the entire time, whether I was laughing at the antics of Sven, Kristoff’s reindeer, or sad for Elsa’s solitude.

If the crowd was any indictation, it was an excellent movie, because it elicited the gasps of the entire movie theater when one character’s evil plot was revealed, and clapping when said character was finally discovered and defeated (much to my own amusement, I was one of those people who clapped).

If you liked Tangled, you’ll like Frozen even better.