The Snow Queen

When I first watched it I found it to be very good. However, I was young at the time. I have a great memory at remembering things and I realised that it just wasn't as good as I thought it to be. OK, so the animation is overall good with bouncy colourful characters like the trolls, to the Snow Queen herself, who is of course more elegant, but has been designed well. The cast was also good, with Hugh Laurie and Helen Mirren being at the top of my list! Shame they changed the names of Gerda and Kay to Tom and Ellie, though. That I didn't really like.

However, the worst criticism I can give this is that it is overall very unrealistic. By that I don't mean flying reindeer, talking animals and magic mirrors. No! That's what fantasy is supposed to be like! I mean how a child of Ellie's age could not know where the North Pole is, or just go gallivanting off to find Tom without taking some kind of food with her! In the real story the boat that Gerda is on takes her downstream, so it's impossible for her to do that, but Ellie chooses to go and rescue Tom herself.

The whole kerfuffle at the gates of the Snow Queen's palace is also a big let down. If Ellie crept into the palace alone without a sound, that would have been good. But it was as though she rang the royal doorbell! She was polite to her enemies and persuaded the trolls by the fact that she had come a long way. This is something that horrible people don't normally care about! I also found Ellie's voice rather annoying at times, which put me off, rather than her being my heroine.

So I give this 4/10.

I got The Snow Queen and TSQ's Revenge on VHS as a kid and would watch them whenever i was off sick from school. I remember it being quite scary in parts to my younger self, but overall it remains a magical and very enjoyable adventure.

The film boasts an incredible cast of Oscar winning actors and actresses, who do such an excellent job bringing a unique personality to each of the characters Ellie encounters on the adventure, that when combined with the top notch animation it becomes a truly memorable experience, even 20+ years on. The film is absolutely worth a watch and the fact it's not "yet another sickly Disney film" is honestly reason enough even by itself. The fact it's truly a quality film in its own right is a bonus hah!

The "top review" on here seems incredibly negative for no particular reason and i disagree with most of what it says, even though it doesn't say much! Clearly just some boring and miserable person who never watched it as a child and doesn't have kids of their own to watch it with so why they even reviewed it i don't know.

The Snow Queen is a good underrated film. By all means it isn't perfect, the amusing parts are a tad overdone and the film is too short. But I liked the style of the animation with its lovely backgrounds and bright luscious colours. And the music, while not something to completely rave about, was pleasant and worth listening to. The story is a timeless one, I have cherished it for many years and even at 17 I still like to read it. This film changes a few things here and there, but forms the basics of the story pretty well and the characters are at least interesting. The voice acting is very well done, Hugh Laurie is amusing as Peeps and David Jason is great as Eric. But I have to say Helen Mirren is superb as the voice of the Snow Queen, who looks as imperiously chilling as she sounds. Overall, good movie and worth watching. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Tom and Ellie live in a small town listening to their grandmother tell the story of the evil Snow Queen. The Snow Queen sends his trolls to set up her mirror but it shatters. Two shards get embedded into Tom turning him evil. The Snow Queen recovers the pieces and kidnaps Tom to put the pieces back together. Ellie sets off to rescue her brother Tom.

The animation style is basically 80s Saturday morning TV cartoon. It's perfectly fine. The songs are rather boring. There is an adventure born from the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. It's comical with childish humor. It would be helpful if the story is more compelling but it's basically one extended road trip. It's not that good except for the littlest kids and I fear that even they could be bored.

this old style animation movie might be likable by young kids,but that might be a bit of a stretch.it's just too slow,with a story that isn't very strong.plus it tries to be dark at times and lite at others. the amusing bits are overdone,and not really amusing.again,young kids might find these sequences funny.yet the movie is also a bit too dark,in my opinion,for young kids.so it's hard to say who the movie would be suitable for.or maybe i'm just blowing it out of proportion,and young kids would have no problem with it.for me though,i just found the whole thing a bit too weak.my vote for the animated version of The Snow Queen is a 4/10