hyped garbage

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

This movie is based on "The Snow Queen" traditional fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen. The original story is quite depressing and I didn't like "Snow Queen" as a child, it was cold and quite dreary. The book didn't appeal to me. This film is a lot more colourful than the original fairytale. Gerda looks for her missing boyfriend, and traces him across the seasons, meeting various sisters of the four seasons who each want to keep her as their prisoner. It's only the Snow Queen who doesn't want Gerda, the only season who has no interest in her. The snow queen wants boys and has frozen a lot of them. She turned a man into a polar bear and forced Kai to fix a broken mirror puzzle. The main theme is that Snow Queen is actually Winter itself and threatens the world with an Ice Age. It was Gerda's magical broach that protected her from the Snow Queen. The costumes, the flying snow car, scenery, flowers and theme of seasonal sisters is delightful and appeals to kids mainly and some adults who enjoy watching family fantasy. Oh and the reindeer was cool but a shame he wasn't in it that much.

This movie is sweet and touching and even a bit frightening at times, but that is purely at the beginning and end. The middle three vignettes in which the heroine meets the spring, summer, and autumn witches is too long, too unnecessary, and tedious and boring. The acting is fine throughout, the premise is interesting, but the middle seems like pieces out of another movie cobbled in. It breaks the flow and comes across as rather ludicrous. It is almost as if someone mistakenly stuck a couple of reels of a kids movie into the middle of an adult movie.Overall I would suggest this as a decent girl's sleepover movie if you didn't actually expect them to watch the movie. It could be easily edited down into a good movie. It's a shame the length and content is just too over the top and destroys a fine love fantasy.

"Snow Queen" is based, of course, on the fairy tale of the same name, collected in (at least) Andersen's Fairy Tales - and, unlike many other recent productions based on other fairy tales, this one retains the spirit of Faerie, an accomplishment not easy and not well understood by many, especially among Americans. Talking animals, arbitrary prohibitions, appearances of goblins, dragons, and demons, are not to be questioned in a fairy tale; they are as natural an element of Faerie as, say, gravity is in the scientific world, and the reason or explanation for them is completely beside the point of the story. Nor is the story bound by modern Hollywood rules of composition: direct, often to the point of being grotesquely linear in lesser works, and obvious (in retrospect, at least).With this defence against the common criticisms of those who do not understand fairy tales, "Snow Queen" is a delightful movie with wonderful visual effects, skillful acting, and great sentiment. The only flaw in the movie was, I think, not that it was too fantastical but that certain parts of the dialogue were too glaringly modern in slang and expression, a mar on its otherwise timeless nature.

Okay, I really dont care what most of you are saying, because you all are soooo much into details. But my personal opinion is that this is one of the best movies I have EVER seen. Its not got poor casting-I couldnt see anyone else playing some of those parts! Even though there are old versions of the movie, and a book. I like this version AND its characters. This is by far one of my favorite movies. =)