The mystical, magical, and made up land of Arendelle is home to two of Disney’s newest princesses, and the stars of the animated movie, Frozen.

With award winning music and a winter holiday feel, this new movie has many St. Paul Academy and Summit School students buzzing.

The movie, it seems, is aimed at girls ages five through fifteen just because it is a Disney princess movie, but the themes are not child-like or girly in any way. Disney has reinvented its princesses and has redefined happily ever after. “[Frozen] is about sisters. It isn’t particularly girly but it is about girls,” freshman Isabelle Bukovsan said.

Everyone should see this movie at least once, but even better would be to see it several times like some students have. “It was actually a really good movie. Everybody was saying it was cute and fun, and I agree. That’s why I had to see it again!” freshman Kathryn Schmechel said.

What could make this Disney spin of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen so appealing? Frozen shows the best example of a strong sibling relationship in a Disney movie and the main focus is not finding true love in the opposite gender. “I liked the sister love in it as opposed to romantic love,” said junior Maggie Clark.

In Frozen, the elder of the sisters, Queen Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel), struggles with her magic powers over snow, ice, and everything cold. She isolates herself from her younger sister Anna (voiced by Kristin Bell) in attempts to keep her safe from her potentially harmful powers. Princess Anna, who doesn’t know about Elsa’s powers, tries to reach out and become close to Elsa. On the day of Elsa’s coronation, Elsa accidentally activates her powers and freezes over the entire land. This locks them in a dreadful and bleak winter. Elsa once again retreats from her sister and this time, from all of Arendelle too. On a breathtaking adventure, Anna hopes to bring her sister home from the mountains and reverse the spell that Elsa has put on Arendelle.

When one thinks of a Disney princess, the mind automatically goes to one of the classic characters, all embodying strong, fearless, loving women. Elsa and Anna fit this description, but are unique in one regard: the bond and friendship that develops and is shared between these sisters is unparalleled by any other Disney princess, maybe because nobody ever thought to put two princesses together in one movie. So move over Cinderella, there are two new princesses in town.

Children and teens alike can relate to Elsa’s fear of letting too much of herself show and the need to hold her true self in. Anyone can also relate to Anna’s need for acceptance and love from the people around her. “Everyone has sibling problems. These are taken to the extreme but everyone has them,” freshman Cara Pomerantz said.

“I could see some guys finding it hard to relate to sisters, but maybe they can.” Bukovsan said.

“I think it is aimed more at little girls since both of the protagonists are female,” Clark said.

Audiences can learn, along with Anna and her gang of friends, about how to be a good sister, a good friend, and what love really means. It also doesn’t hurt that there is a funny talking snowman, incredibly loveable trolls, and a kind mountain man and his sassy reindeer companion to draw people to this movie.

“[Olaf the snowman] is so naive, but adorable and hilarious at the same time,” Pomerantz said. The magic talking snowman created by Elsa’s powers is lovable and a great sidekick on the journey through the mountains.

“The mountain man with the big nose, Kristoff, is very oblivious but he means well,” Pomerantz said. Kristoff leads and guides Anna through her journey and even introduces her to his troll family in the mountains. “The trolls! They are smart, wise, and the cutest things I’ve ever seen!” Pomerantz said.

These characters fit right in with the other lovable and well known casts of Disney animated movies, but these new characters have a kind of sparkle that can only be compared to the glittering of the vast amounts of snow and ice surrounding them in this shimmering, magical, ice-kissed movie.