Critical Analysis on “Frozen” Frozen is an animated musical produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures in November 2013. Inspired by the well-known fairy tale “The Snow Queen” from Anderson, the story is set at the Kingdom of Arendelle, focusing on the journey of the Princess Anna to find her sister, Queen Elsa, who has secret magic power and frozen the whole country by accident. Two Academy Awards went to this movie, which respectively are Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for “Let It Go”. In terms of commercial success, it has earned the highest-grossing among all animated movies in history. This critical analysis will principally focus on one of the two main characters, Anna, to problematize the contradiction of feminism and patriarchy in this movie. First, from the view of dominant reading position, I will analyze how Frozen advocates “girl power” by portraying a heroine and changing the traditional storyline of princess movies. Then, from another point of view, I will pay more attention to male characters around Anna, investigating the implicit ideology of patriarchy underlying different images and roles of genders. And finally the contradiction between them will be pointed out. To focus, I will choose two segments, “Meet Hans” and “Ask for Kristoff’s Help” to analyze in terms of narrative, language features and multimodal features. Some examples from other parts of the movie may be included as well for reinforcement. To begin with, the ideology of feminism is embedded in this movie and primarily reflected by the character Anna. In terms of the portrayal of Anna, feminism is demonstrated by her “girl 1