After watching Disney’s highly praised movie Frozen, only one word came to mind: over-rated. For the entire movie I sat there waiting for a villainous character to appear as normally seen in Disney movies, however, none ever did. This made me really think about what the message of the story was. The more I thought about it, the more I saw a connection with depression. The writers took the signs of teenage depression and replaced it with an icy super power the eldest daughter keeps to herself and her parents, often times locking herself away and wearing long articles of cloths to keep herself covered. After running away and coming back home, the two sisters discover “true love” as sister love and live happily ever after. It’s a very boring plot line. People watch movies to escape reality for a few hours, not be reminded of its worst parts.

The whole no real “true love” in the movie bothered me too, Disney movies have done an excellent job in the past of making the hero or heroine fall in love and then live happily ever after, telling kids that their other half is out there, and everyone ends up living happily ever after. I understand society is changing and that marriage isn’t as important to people as it used to be (especially in Hollywood) but that doesn’t give anyone the right to start sending kids that message through a children’s movie! Then again, the main characters are strong independent women who don’t need no man.