...makes a valiant effort to live up to its predecessor...

Frozen II' revives and doubles down on the good...

"Frozen II" is funny, exciting, sad, romantic, and silly.

...it looks and sounds good, with a stirring central song for Elsa entitled 'Into the Unknown'...

...'Frozen II' takes Disney further into Studio Ghibli territory, dropping binary good-and-evil storytelling for more nuanced depictions of the balance between humanity and nature.

It’s fun, looks great and is sure to delight kids...

Here, the idea is developed further, with Elsa and Anna (Kristen Bell) vowing to undo the damage done by generations past, thoughtfully touching on the timely themes of colonialism and the climate crisis.