The technical aspects are excellent, too. It's a bright, beautiful, shining gift of a film with 3D that isn't afraid to choose spectacle over depth. Best of all, its deviations from the source material feel right for right now, especially as it relates to its own historical standing alongside a deservedly maligned tradition of princesshood as an end to itself. Without going into too much plot detail, these are princesses who buck traditional narrative outcomes for something deeper and more powerfully heartfelt. It's a movie about fear and grief and the power of familial, sibling love to sort it all out. Weirdly, in movies that are almost always aimed at children, that's a love that rarely gets equal screen time in a romance-obsessed world. It's a welcome, refreshing change and, at least partly thanks to that, should rightly stand with Disney's classics.