SIX years ago, it was the smash hit families across the world just couldn’t let go. Now comes a sequel to match its success. Yes, for the first time in forever, Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven are back for Frozen II.

A second round of Frozen fever is inevitable. Skipton Plaza have promised at least two weeks of screenings for the film, whilst its characters have been lined up for an appearance at the town’s festivities this weekend.

Assuring repeat success for the franchise - which has, since 2013, sprouted two short films, a Broadway musical and seemingly endless stream of merchandise - is a new offering very nearly as good as its predecessor. Frozen II is ambitious and mature, playful and fun. It boasts a story with heart and songs that will fill willing ears for weeks to come. If there’s nothing likely to have quite the cultural impact as Elsa’s defining Let it Go sequence from last time around, expecting such is unfair. To produce one hit is magical, to achieve a second is down right remarkable.

Scripted by Jennifer Lee, the film picks up three years on from happily ever after, with Elsa still Queen, Olaf still defying science and Anna and Kristoff still enjoying their happy union. Not all is plain sailing. When Elsa starts to hear voices calling her from afar, things take a calamitous turn in the kingdom of Arendelle. With with her sister, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven in tow, Elsa must journey beyond her homeland to save all that she holds close.

Opening in flashback, Frozen II finds room in its expanded cast for Evan Rachel Wood and Alfred Molina as the deceased King and Queen of Arendelle, with Delaney Rose Stein and Jackson Stein voicing their younger selves. There’s strong work too by Sterling K. Brown and Martha Plimpton, whose Yelena sparked much speculation on appearing briefly in the film’s early trailers. No spoilers here.

Yet, it is the core cast for whom fans return. Josh Gad again brings humour to proceedings, albeit this time jostling for comic dominance with Jonathan Groff, who enjoys an amusing succession of fumbled proposal scenes as Kristoff eyes marriage to Anna. Above all, Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel enchant once more as the pleasingly flawed sisters whose mutual love empowered young girls the world over.

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