OP, if you’re worried about Frozen being made by people who “do not know God” then you might as well stop watching any movies at all other than obviously “Christian” ones.
Frozen has had an interesting reception in Christian circles. I don’t think it was meant to be a Christian work, but that doesn’t mean it’s not relevant to Christians at all. Some critics were very impressed by the idea that it is Anna’s self-sacrificial love for her sister that saves her, and how Elsa realizes at the end that the key to controlling her powers is love, as opposed to fear. The first is very Christ-like, and the second brings to mind 1 John 4:18, “perfect love casts out fear”.
However, I think those who reject the film simply based on *Let It Go *are oversimplifying the overall message. As pensmama87 notes, Elsa was initially meant to be an outright evil character, and apparently the song was written as a “villain song”. And it’s pretty obvious that evil characters will say evil things, that doesn’t mean the reader or watcher is meant to take them seriously, or agree.
Now, Elsa is not actually evil, just tired of hiding away her powers and being isolated for years. But she develops beyond her “let it go” moment. Elsa quickly finds out that her understandable but selfish desire to “let it go” and let her powers run wild have caused much destruction in her kingdom. When Elsa realizes this, she is remorseful, but doesn’t know what she can do beyond continue to hide, because she does not know how to control her powers. The film wraps up with a rather balanced message, it does not validate the fear-based “conceal, don’t feel” approach, she ends the film using her powers publicly, in a controlled way. But I did not get the message that Elsa was justified in just “letting it go” with no care for the consequences.
As for the fantasy magic aspect of it. I have no problem with it, because I did not get the sense that Elsa’s powers are at all demonic. Her abilities seemed to be closer to ones a mutant in the Marvel*** X-men*** universe would have, somewhat of a combination of Storm and Iceman. Or Frozone in the Incredibles franchise. They simply “are”. Elsa is never portrayed as a witch the way, say, Mother Goethel is in Tangled, though both are likely set in the same quasi-European universe (there’s even a cameo shot of Rapunzel attending Elsa’s coronation).
Note that if fantasy magic were an issue, most Renaissance era Disney movies would be automatically verboten, the only 2 major ones I recall without magic are ***The Incredibles ***and The Lion King, and even that film has Rafiki the pagan shaman, though he doesn’t really do any feats of magic that I can recall.
And even the Classic Disney Cinderella would be off the list because of the “fairy godmother”. I guess ***Snow White ***and ***Sleeping Beauty ***might make the cut because they feature witches who are obviously evil, and defeated at the end.
Little Mermaid, the first of the Rensaissance era movies, also has an obviously evil witch, but King Triton also performs magic and that’s not shown as bad at all.
Anyway, back to Frozen. Another “controversy” was whether the movie sent a pro-LGBT message. But I don’t think that was the main point, much as I don’t think the X-men were originally meant to be, either, the comic was started in the 1960s and meant to parallel the Civil Rights struggle, with Professor X representing MLK and other civil rights activists who were “mainstream”, while Magneto represented the violent radicals – I wasn’t around back then, but apparently Magneto being a Holocaust survivor was NOT part of his original backstory.
Also, if we really think Frozen is an LGBT analogy, it really isn’t that pro-LGBT. The movie never minimizes the dangers that Elsa’s power pose to both her immediate family and her kingdom. I really don’t think it validates the “just be yourself and don’t worry about right or wrong” message in the end.
As noted before, Elsa actually decides to use her powers judiciously to help others, not just frolic in a frozen wasteland while everyone else freezes to death. I’m really not sure exactly what LGBT analogy this would be, unless it’s for the Pope Francis approach to those with SSA, treating them with respect and even acknowledging some same-sex relationships may have merits, but without saying they are equivalent to marriage. This message might mollify some in the LGBT community, but it’s not what the leadership would find acceptable as a final solution.
Though I guess the Duke of Weselton getting his trading rights cut off at the end is actually similar to what many in the LGBT community would like to do to business owners who don’t want to participate in same-sex weddings. But the Duke actually got off easy considering he tried to have Elsa killed.
I also never saw Oaken the store/sauna keeper as homosexual, either. His “family” does include a broad-shouldered adult male, but the man seemed much too young to be a “partner” to a guy with graying hair who’s probably in his 40s-50s. (Unless we want to indulge in the worst sorts of stereotypes about the practices of male homosexuals.) I assumed he was either his oldest son, or a younger brother.
