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Lest you forget amid all the noise made by Marvel Studios and  Star Wars  rumors, Walt Disney Pictures still does big business in princesses, and they’re aiming to prove it with their mammoth new holiday season release  Frozen . Very,  very  loosely adapted from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, it’s the story of a vaguely Nordic kingdom and the two orphaned sisters, Elsa (Idina Menzel) and Anna (Kristen Bell), charged with running it. The spunky heroine and lonely castle hearken back to recent hit  Tangled ; the sisterly conflict feels like  The Little Mermaid ; the knowing fairy tales riffs are pure  Enchanted . This is rigorous Disney hit-making at its finest, but with enough charm to get away with it. Even before Elsa’s powers of shooting ice and snow from her fingertips run rampant, the animation guided by directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee is stunning– Elsa and Anna’s parents perish in a single shot of a howling storm at sea, and the stony cliffs surrounding the village