With her hair now fully down to her shoulders, Queen Elsa struts onto the mysterious island of ice from which The Voice has beckoned her. Elsa gets to rule Northuldra and Anna now rules Arendelle. It was the sins of Elsa’s own ancestors that provoked a series of enchantments, from the mystical shroud around the forest that protected the Northuldra (yet isolated them from the outside world) to the curse that isolated Elsa with the touch of ice. Singing “when it’s clear everything will never be the same again, then I’ll make the choice to hear that voice and do the next right thing,” Anna accepts Elsa’s death and carries on by doing the only thing she can think of to atone for their family and their kingdom’s mistakes: She destroys the dam which her grandfather committed murder for. Zootopia is about racial conflict and stereotyping. The sequel comes up to the line of doing something really interesting, and then backs away at the last moment. This is the shocking revelation, that according to Frozen II, Elsa has been on the path to discovering her whole life. But because it might bum the audience out if the people of Arendelle lost their homes and had to rebuild, you have Elsa’s magic saving the day, which is just a massive cop-out to the hard conversation the movie sets up. Olaf, Kristoff and Sven were shown bringing the many mischievous mini-snowmen to Elsa’s former palace to live with Marshmallow at the end of that short. It’s explicit in her two big power ballads of the film. David Crow is the Film Section Editor at Den of Geek. You can follow him on Twitter @DCrowsNest. At the very end of the movie, after all the credits roll and all the fun pop covers of the movie's songs have played, we see Olaf sitting in … When the first Frozen came out, its emphasis on familial love and a sisterly bond transcending Disney formulae or romance was a breath of fresh air. Sometimes the only way to live with the past is to attempt to amend it. Frozen 2 on Disney+. He resides in Atlanta with his wife and their dog Jack. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! 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This attempt at conquest was thwarted when the spirits of the forest trapped everyone inside with a magical mist. Unfortunately, Frozen IIabsolutely bails at the last moment when Elsa uses her magic powers to save Arendelle from being flooded. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. Watch our complete overview of Frozen 2 beneath:As soon as Elsa reaches the legendary landmark she uncovers the reality: it used to be her grandfather who attacked the Northuldra after development the dam to weaken their land and lead them to susceptible to his advances. It became a piece of forgotten history until Elsa works to uncover what really happened. Hi Leude! Admittedly though, I am unsure if this was predestined because her mother was also half-spirit (she certainly knew magic) or if it was a byproduct of Anna making the right choice. In Frozen II, Elsa starts out as Queen of Arendelle, but then a journey into the nearby enchanted forest inspires her to find her true path as a fifth … To accept that can be chilling. Given the fictitious tribe’s faint resemblance to Native Americans and the Inuit people, one might draw a parallel between Arendelle consuming the resources they share with the Northuldra with the American government’s nigh total consumption of North American lands from its native inhabitants. This article contains major Frozen II spoilers. The highly anticipated Disney movie Frozen 2 is now in theaters and you might be wondering if you should stick around for an end credits scene.. … If the conflict is about wrestling with the sins of the past, then to have the solution literally be magic is anticlimactic and would really only work if Frozen II were satirical. After an internal struggle, I stuck with the first 10 that popped in to my head after watching the movie. The filmmakers are not coy about this fact, as Kristen Bell recently told Jimmy Kimmel that Frozen “has matured with its audience.” And nowhere is that more apparent than the lessons of family imparted in the sequel. It would be easy to correlate Arendelle’s abuse of the Northuldra people to any number of historic avatars. Instead she learned from the ugly truth of her forefathers, and in doing so saved Elsa from death. He’s also a member of the Online Film Critics Society. Anna did not deny the past or pretend Arendelle just needed to be “great again” by acting above mistakes or criticism. It is an animated musical fantasy film that is loved by people. And rather than actually discuss this theft of resources, it was Arendelle’s king who broke the peace by murdering the Northuldra leader while his back was turned, starting a blood feud that enraged the spirits of the forest. He has long been proud of his geek credentials. Nothing is really solved, but catastrophe is avoided in a way that feels unearned.