The thing about Frozen

In case you hadn't heard, in the Huey household, we LOVE Frozen.

After seeing the movie in the Christmas holidays we downloaded the soundtrack and it was on repeat for weeks.
We saw the movie a couple more times and then last week I took the girls to the Sing-along Version of the movie.
What's not to love? Immy got her favourite seat in the cinema (second front row) and was able to sing along with all the songs, even though she can't read the words on the screen.
Immy has me all organised to do the duets with her and has her ipad set so that she can watch Elsa and Anna on YouTube at any time.
She wants hair like Queen Elsa, and a lacy cape to swish.
The thing is, we have never been so caught up in a movie. For years, I have watched little kids be obsessed with Buzz Lightyear. The movie Cars ended up plastered over everything you could possibly think of for years and even though my kids enjoyed most of these movies (except Brave, still haven't watched that again) they never got so caught up in the story lines or obsessed with characters.
They never played games imagining they were the characters from a movie nor did they want to dress up as these characters or request toys from movies.
But they love Frozen, Immy most of all. Or maybe it is me most of all.
There is just so much to enjoy with this film. Olaf the snowman is just a delightfully funny character, one that you can't help to want to see more of. The relationship between sisters Anna and Elsa, while very Disney, is still a very sisterly relationship. The stone people, the trolls, are hilarious, I could have watched them for longer.
Even the 10 seconds in this clip are funny.

In the end of the movie we are reminded that true love is not waiting for a man to sweep you off your feet. It's your sister. Your sibling who loves you so much that she will risk her life for you, this is the act of true love. The concept of love at first sight...that is something to mock, you can't love someone when you don't even know their last name.
The animation is brilliant. The songs are catchy but even after having to listen to them 7654 times this summer, it's been ok.
If you need to be a Princess than being Elsa or Anna ain't such a bad thing. You can ride a horse and climb mountains, fight off a pack of wolves and create magical snowmen. You can also sing. Man, can you sing.
While I admit I haven't looked too hard, I am yet to see a gazillion products, clothing, toys and equipment covered in the Frozen branding, I can certainly see why some kids will be pestering their parents to get them stuff.
And when I saw this outfit whipped up by a talented lady on Instagram for her daughter, it was just moments before I whipped off an email to her to order Immy her very own Elsa apron.



Long Live the Queen.