FROZEN II
Love, courage, and dazzling animation make this sequel worth seeing.
Should You Watch It?
FROZEN II delivers nearly everything you want from a family sequel: exceptional animation, funny characters, exciting plot points, and a beautiful soundtrack. Its moral center is strong. The story honors sacrifice, doing what is right, friendship, marriage, prayer, and knowing truth.
The film also includes magic, animistic spirits connected with nature, and politically correct elements. Yet its redemptive themes ultimately take precedence. The characters combat fear with love, and the story gives families meaningful ideas to discuss rather than empty spectacle.
Younger children may be frightened by a few scenes involving danger and jeopardy. For most families, this is a worthwhile animated adventure with discernment for elementary-age children. The practical answer: take middle schoolers and older children, and use your judgment with younger viewers.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESQueen Elsa and Princess Anna live peacefully in Arendelle with their friends until a ferocious wind threatens the people’s safety. Elsa begins hearing a mysterious voice that no one else can hear.
The sisters, along with Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf, travel toward a nearby enchanted forest hidden behind a magical mist. They hope to discover the cause of the disturbance, learn more about Elsa’s powers, and uncover secrets from their family’s past.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this is exceptional family entertainment, and the film earns that rating. The animation is excellent, the plot contains powerful and exciting points, and the soundtrack is beautiful. The voice actors bring the lovable characters to life, with Josh Gad stealing many of the comical scenes as Olaf.
The music is a major strength. Viewers may find themselves singing several of the new songs after the movie ends. Altogether, FROZEN II is a charming, funny, visually impressive sequel with enough emotional and moral substance to satisfy families.
The Worldview
FROZEN II has a strong moral worldview with somewhat allegorical Christian themes. It exalts sacrifice, doing the right thing, friendship, marriage, prayer, truth, and love overcoming fear. The film’s central moral direction is redemptive, especially as characters choose courage and care for others rather than surrendering to fear.
The movie also presents magic and animistic spirits associated with earth, air, water, and fire. Elsa’s magical power connects the supernatural world of the story with the human characters in the natural world. Some characters say they “only trust nature,” but that idea is rebuked. Environmentalist elements encourage respect for nature, while the story ultimately emphasizes people caring for the land where they live.
The film contains politically correct elements, including a duplicitous grandfather patriarch. It also shows patriotism as characters express love for their land. The review notes that its diversity is contrary to the facts of past Scandinavian cultures, while providing fictional breadth to the movie. It also notes that the northern people in Scandinavia, known as Laps or Sami, experienced a Christian revival in 1907 and continue to gather every ten years for Christian revival preaching and teaching; they recognized their pagan spiritism as self-destructive and culturally corrosive.
At its best, the film’s message that love casts out fear echoes Scripture: “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Strong, somewhat allegorical Christian, moral worldview with an emphasis on sacrifice, doing the right thing, there’s a line about the need to pray for safety, marriage and friendship are extolled, love casts out fear, with patriotic elements where characters express love of their land and a corrupt king’s actions are rebuked, mitigated by some talk about magic, and one character has the magical power to freeze things, and there are references to the four elements of nature (earth, air, water, and fire) being spirits, but a main human character with special powers becomes a redemptive bridge between the supernatural magical world and the regular human characters in the “natural” world, plus some environmentalist worldview elements showing nature is powerful and deserves respect, and some characters say they “only trust nature,” but their comment is rebuked
Foul Language
No obscenities or profanities, but one character says “butt”, and there’s talk of vomit
Violence
Animated violence includes characters engage in battle, giant boulders fly through the air and break a stone bridge, roaring seas threaten the safety of many characters, and a frozen statue shows that a corrupt king killed an innocent man
Sex
No sexual immorality or content, but a couple kisses a few times, and child characters have their dolls kiss while playing
Nudity
No nudity shown, but the Snowman character makes a joke about being naked
Alcohol Use
No alcohol use
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
No smoking or drugs;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Trickery.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Elsa and Anna face fear by choosing to keep going and care for others. What does it look like for your family to respond to fear with love?
1 John 4:18 · 1 Corinthians 16:13–14The film honors sacrifice and doing the right thing. When have you had to choose what was right instead of what was easiest?
Philippians 2:3–4 · Micah 6:8The story emphasizes truth about the past. Why can facing the truth be difficult, and how can truth lead to healing?
John 8:31–32 · Ephesians 4:25The movie includes a prayer for safety. What does your family pray about when you feel threatened or uncertain?
Philippians 4:6–7 · Psalm 56:3The Final Word
FROZEN II is exceptional, funny, beautiful entertainment with a strong moral heart. Its magical and spirit-related elements, along with a few frightening scenes, call for discernment with younger children. For middle schoolers and up, it is WORTH THE TRIP — MIDDLE SCHOOL AND UP.
