50 Fun Facts About Frozen 2

Who directed Frozen 2?

Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. Midway through production Lee was promoted to run Disney Animation, so a second screenwriter was hired to help her finish the script.

Three years after Elsa's coronation, Frozen 2 finds Arendelle celebrating which season?

Autumn. The town sings Some Things Never Change among the fallen leaves, and before long the spirits drive everyone out of the kingdom.

In Frozen 2, which forest tribe received a dam from Arendelle as a supposed gift of peace?

The Northuldra. The dam was offered as a gift but built to weaken their land, and the battle that followed left both peoples sealed inside the forest for more than thirty years.

In Frozen 2, which king, Elsa's grandfather, turns out to have started the war in the Enchanted Forest?

King Runeard. He feared the forest people's bond with magic, so he built them a dam as a false gift and then killed their leader in cold blood.

In Frozen 2, what kind of creature is Bruni, the fire spirit Elsa befriends?

A salamander. Bruni sets the forest ablaze in a panic until Elsa calms him, and he ends up cooling off by gulping down her snowflakes.

In Frozen 2, what is the mythical river said to hold all the answers about the past?

Ahtohallan. The lullaby calls it a river, but Elsa arrives to find a glacier: a river of ice that holds the past in frozen memories.

In Frozen 2, what form does the water spirit that Elsa must tame take?

The Nøkk, a horse. It tries to drown Elsa as she crosses the sea, until she conjures reins of ice, climbs on and rides it.

In Frozen 2, whose voice turns out to be the mysterious call that draws Elsa north?

Her mother Iduna's memory. As a girl she rescued the wounded prince Agnarr, an enemy, from the forest battle, and nature rewarded that kindness by giving Elsa her powers.

What are the towering stone spirits called that are goaded into smashing the dam in Frozen 2?

Earth Giants. They are woken on purpose and led towards the dam, hurling boulders at their target all the way, until their own throws bring it down.

Who is crowned ruler of Arendelle at the end of Frozen 2?

Anna. Elsa gives up the throne to stay in the Enchanted Forest as its protector, so her younger sister is crowned queen in her place.

What are the tiny sneeze-born creatures called that hear Olaf's retelling in Frozen 2's post-credits scene?

The Snowgies. Each one popped out when Elsa sneezed her way through a cold in an earlier short, and they were packed off to live at her ice palace.

Who voices Lieutenant Mattias in Frozen 2?

Sterling K. Brown. His Mattias has spent over thirty years trapped in the forest, still loyal to Arendelle, yet he ends up helping to destroy the dam his own king built.

Which actress voices Queen Iduna, the sisters' mother, in Frozen 2?

Evan Rachel Wood. The songwriters wanted a voice that could sound a little like each of the two leads, so the mother would sound like both her daughters.

Which Spider-Man villain actor voices the sisters' father, King Agnarr, in Frozen 2?

Alfred Molina. Doctor Octopus himself took the part over from Maurice LaMarche, and in 2021 he married the film's screenwriter, with the voice of Kristoff officiating.

Which Norwegian singer performs the haunting call that lures Elsa north in Frozen 2?

Aurora. Her wordless call is the hook of Into the Unknown, and she later sang it live on stage beside nine Elsas from other countries.

Who voices both Kristoff and his reindeer Sven in Frozen 2?

Jonathan Groff. For Kristoff's big ballad he also sang the entire reindeer chorus himself, recording at least 18 separate vocal tracks.

In Frozen 2, what has sealed off the Enchanted Forest for decades when the sisters arrive?

A wall of mist. The angry spirits raised it after the battle, trapping soldiers and tribespeople inside together, and it parts only when Elsa touches it.

Working on which short film made Frozen 2's directors realise they missed the characters?

Frozen Fever. The short brought the whole team back together, and by the time it opened in March 2015 Disney had announced a full sequel.

Which parlour game are Elsa and her friends playing in Frozen 2 when the mysterious voice interrupts?

Charades. Mid-game Elsa hears the mysterious voice again, loses her thread and slips away to bed early, the first sign to the others that something is wrong.

In Frozen 2, which wreck do the sisters stumble upon on their way north through the forest?

Their parents' ship. A map on board shows the king and queen were sailing north for answers about Elsa's magic, which leaves her blaming herself for their deaths.

The floating reindeer heads in Kristoff's Frozen 2 ballad spoof the video for which Queen hit?

Bohemian Rhapsody. The songwriters modelled the whole number on 1980s power ballads by singers unafraid to pour their hearts out, citing Bryan Adams and Jon Bon Jovi.

In Frozen 2, the four-note call that haunts Elsa is borrowed from which medieval Latin chant?

Dies irae. The old chant for the dead is sung here in the style of kulning, a Scandinavian herding call, as if Elsa were being called home like cattle.

Which Frozen 2 song is Kristoff's lovelorn 1980s-style power ballad?

Lost in the Woods. It replaced a comic duet written for the couple, because the songwriters wanted Kristoff to pour out his feelings on his own for once.

Which crowd-pleasing Frozen 2 scene was added after a test screening left children confused?

Olaf's comic recap of Frozen. It replaced a scene of characters explaining themselves, because adults had liked that cut but children could not follow the story.

During which Frozen 2 song does Elsa finally step inside the river of memories she has been chasing?

Show Yourself. The songwriters spent about six months reworking it, and it was the last big sequence animated before the film was locked.

Which song does Anna sing alone in a dark cave in Frozen 2, believing she has lost everyone?

The Next Right Thing. Kristen Bell's openness about her own depression helped inspire it: on her lowest days, she said, she just takes one small step and then another.

In the climax of Frozen 2, what threatens to destroy Arendelle before Elsa arrives to stop it?

A flood. Breaking the dam sends the water racing down the fjord, and Elsa rides in at the last moment to freeze it before it reaches the kingdom.

Which rock band covered Kristoff's ballad for the end credits of Frozen 2?

Weezer. Their video casts Kristen Bell, one of the film's two leads, as the love interest of frontman Rivers Cuomo.

In Frozen 2, which keepsake of their mother's wins the sisters the trust of the forest tribe?

Her scarf. The tribe recognise it as one of their own, which is how the sisters learn their mother was the forest girl who once saved their father's life.

In Frozen 2, what happens to Elsa when she ventures too deep into the river of memories?

She freezes solid. With her magic gone Olaf fades away too, and it takes the breaking of the dam to thaw her out again.

Behind the scenes, why does Olaf have a permafrost coating in Frozen 2?

His snow cloud was too hard to animate. The directors had Elsa perfect a permafrost coating instead, and a song written to explain the change, Unmeltable Me, was cut.

What does Kristoff spend most of Frozen 2 trying, and failing, to do?

Propose marriage. Every attempt is botched or interrupted, and he finally asks only once the dam has fallen and the kingdom is safe.

What name does Olaf give the playful wind spirit in Frozen 2?

Gale. Wind has no body to draw, so Disney built a new tool called Swoop to show the spirit through the leaves and debris it carries.

Which band recorded the end-credits version of Into the Unknown for Frozen 2?

Panic! at the Disco. By then the band was really a one-man act, the solo project of its singer Brendon Urie.

A bootleg DVD spoofing Frozen 2 appears in which 2016 Disney film, three years before the sequel came out?

Zootopia. A weasel crook hawks pun-titled bootleg DVDs, among them Floatzen 2, which stars a moose and two otters.

Which snow giant, left guarding Elsa's ice palace in the first film, returns in Frozen 2's post-credits scene?

Marshmallow. Olaf retells the whole adventure to him at the ice palace, where the giant still lives.

Which scientist complained that Frozen 2's poster showed a snowflake with four sides instead of six?

Neil deGrasse Tyson. He told Disney it had got it right the first time: the original film's poster showed a proper six-sided crystal, and the sequel's had slipped.

Which songwriting duo wrote the songs for both Frozen and Frozen 2?

Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. The first song they wrote for the sequel was its lullaby, which hides in code what the mother needs to tell her daughters.

Which lullaby does Queen Iduna sing to her daughters at the start of Frozen 2?

All Is Found. Its gentle lines carry a coded warning not to go too deep into the river it describes, a warning Elsa later ignores.

Frozen 2 got a dub in which language of the people who inspired its forest tribe?

Northern Sámi. Disney signed an agreement with Sámi parliaments, whose advisers shaped the film's tribe, and the dub grew out of that partnership.

Why did Disney bring Frozen 2's streaming debut forward by three months?

The COVID-19 pandemic. As lockdowns began, Disney said the film's themes of perseverance and family suited the moment, and it arrived on 15 March, three months early.

Which actor, a Tony nominee for The Book of Mormon, voices Olaf in Frozen 2?

Josh Gad. He helped break the news of the sequel himself, joining Disney's chief executive on stage at a 2015 shareholders' meeting to announce it.

Which Marvel film topped 2019's box office, above Frozen 2?

Avengers: Endgame. Frozen 2 came third, behind the remade Lion King, yet its $1.45 billion made it the biggest animated film ever at the time, so long as that remake counts as live action.

Which 2023 film beat Frozen 2's record worldwide opening for an animated title?

The Super Mario Bros. Movie. It opened bigger, at about $375 million worldwide, yet ended its run behind Frozen 2's $1.45 billion total.

Frozen 2's staying power at the US box office was credited to opening just before which holiday?

Thanksgiving. Opening the weekend before gave it what one analyst called a long runway into the holiday, and its second weekend fell just 34 percent.

In Frozen 2, the forest tribe tell of what missing bridge between people and the magic of nature?

A fifth spirit. Elsa goes looking for it, only to learn that she and her sister are the bridge: one end among the spirits, the other among people.

Snubbed for Best Animated Feature, Frozen 2 earned its only Oscar nomination in which category?

Best Original Song. Into the Unknown lost to a song from Rocketman, a comedown from the first Frozen, which won both that award and Best Animated Feature.

Which country narrowly beat China to be Frozen 2's biggest market outside the US, as of 2021?

Japan. It finished about $300,000 ahead of China, even though China's opening weekend had been almost three times bigger.

In Frozen 2, who warns the sisters that Arendelle has no future unless the truth about the past is found?

Grand Pabbie. The troll elder senses the angry spirits and brings his whole colony to the evacuated kingdom to deliver the warning in person.

Who composed the score for Frozen 2?

Christophe Beck. He again brought in the Norwegian women's choir Cantus, saying it keeps the score magical yet rooted in real tradition.