hyped garbage

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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.

Warning: I may include some spoilers in this review.I remember hearing the story of the Snow Queen as a child, and being terrified. The first part of this movie captured that atmosphere entirely as Kai begins to change, but after he is taken and Gerda goes off on her adventures, the tension is mostly lost.Bridget Fonda completely looks the role of the Snow Queen, and is generally pretty good too, especially in what is probably her main line: 'Let the whole world be as I am.' Kai is bland, and Gerda starts the same although as the movie progresses that changes.Some things in the movie just seem to be completely ignored or forgotten. Who is this polar-bear-changed-into-man? Why did the Snow Queen kill Gerda's mother? Why is Autumn a robber? Some parts are also dragged out too much; for instance, the scenes at the beginning of the lovers skating just go on for too long, and begin to feel far too soppy.Contrary to one of the other reviews I've read, I felt the ending was actually pretty good. Winter being carried away by the ex-polar-bear gives the feeling that, rather than the typically stupid idea of 'evil turning good at the last minute', that she instead was merely going back to the way she was, and should have been, that she had been bewitched by the mirror.

Gerda (Chelsea Hobbs) lost her mother when she was a child. Her father, musician as a hobby and owner of a hotel, lost his happiness with the loss of his beloved wife. Close to her eighteenth anniversary, Gerda meets Kai (Jeremy Guilbaut), the bellboy of the hotel, and they fall in love for each other. On the day of the party of her birthday, the Snow Queen (Bridget Fonda) kidnaps Kai and Gerda commits suicide, jumping in the river, trying to recover Kai. This is the beginning of Gerda´s adventure through the reigns of the four seasons. This confused story has some crazy parts that recall Alice in the Wonderland. Although having good special effects, the story is very confused, cold, slow and too much long. It is not clear why many things happen. My vote is five.

Complete entertainment! Although there are many strange things in the movie that the fairy tale itself doesn't have them including the autumn characters (mother and daughter) the general concept rocks.