BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

zzoaozz-994-637879 This movie is sweet and touching and even a bit frightening at times, but that is purely at the beginning and end. The middle three vignettes in which the heroine meets the spring, summer, and autumn witches is too long, too unnecessary, and tedious and boring. The acting is fine throughout, the premise is interesting, but the middle seems like pieces out of another movie cobbled in. It breaks the flow and comes across as rather ludicrous. It is almost as if someone mistakenly stuck a couple of reels of a kids movie into the middle of an adult movie.Overall I would suggest this as a decent girl's sleepover movie if you didn't actually expect them to watch the movie. It could be easily edited down into a good movie. It's a shame the length and content is just too over the top and destroys a fine love fantasy.

anntoanette Enchanting. The best time to see this movie is sometime when unhappy or sad. It's all just so cute, all, even the way that white bear loves the Queen in secret and gets Her in the end, also the achievement the two young actors of Gerda and Kai gave. It's music is also very nice. The two of us will always be one combined with sad piano tones in some places gives a very touching result and if one watches both parts at once, he'll see the Snow Queen is not so bad. She only tries to surround Herself with love in the wrong way. The evening this movie was on here (first part) I only watched it, because I was bored, but I loved it a lot more after and was very angry, when they didn't show the next part because of the Pope's funeral... Yeah, that was terribly sad for me. But when they said it will be on next week, I was so happy, that I recorded it and now I'm glad to have done so.

lothy 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.

Mark-129 Although a fine production with top notch visuals, Snow Queen ultimately is a disapointment. Too long and miscast in several roles, the main problem is the opening hour which sets up a love story between Gerda and Kai. In the original, the main thrust of Gerda's quest to rescue Kai from the Queen was friendship that was revealed to be love at the end, but casting the leads as 18 year olds defeats that revelation.