Frozen. Love it, hate it, or don’t care about it, it’s still enormously popular. Keeping in the Disney tradition, there’s a plethora of deeper connections in this movie to make it appeal to adults. Here's some of the things that have been placed into the movie to make it more awesome.

The opening song

Hyup! Ho! Watch your step! Let it Go!

Beautiful. Powerful. Dangerous. Cold

Strike for love and strike for fear

"Frozen Heart" is the song that plays whilst the ice cutters are, well, cutting ice. It’s a foreshadow for the rest of the film, establishing the main theme of frozen hearts. This includes Anna’s literally frozen heart, Elsa’s closed off heart, and Hans’ unfeeling nature. Like most songs with a lot of symbolism, the lyrics can be taken a plethora of ways

Most notably, at the end of the reprise of "For the First Time in Forever," the notes of this song are played, since Elsa struck Anna out of love and fear-her fear of Anna getting hurt.

Olaf

The comic relief character, Idena Menzel (Elsa's voice, for the two of you who don't know) herself has stated that Olaf represents Elsa’s childhood. He also represents Elsa and Anna’s relationship.

First off, he’s created when Elsa and Anna are friends as children. His original form is destroyed when Elsa and Anna’s relationship is destroyed. He’s re-created during "Let it Go." Basically, the first thing Elsa does when she decides that she can do whatever the heck she wants is to build a snowman. She’s clearly wanted to build a snowman for quite some time. His personality is childish, silly, and goofy, again hearkening back to Elsa’s younger days. He’s destroyed during the storm at the end, when everything gets real intense, but he’s then re-created after the melting, when Elsa and Anna’s relationship is healed. Then, he’s kept around permanently.

"Let it go"

The song’s been compared to "Defying Gravity" from "Wicked." If you know anything at all about "Wicked" then you know how similar "Wicked" and "Frozen" are, and that this comparison is extraordinarily easy to make.

Here’s a Tumblr post that demonstrates the similarities between this song and "Tangled."

Elsa’s powers

Elsa’s powers are related to her emotions. Here’s how it works.

Think about Elsa’s powers. In the beginning, it’s all sparkly and fun, because she’s having fun with Anna. But when Anna gets hurt, her powers change. Her primary emotion regarding her powers is fear, and fear makes her powers spiky. During "Do You Want to Build a Snowman," when she accidentally ices the window, it makes spikes. And then there’s the whole bit with the Coronation scene.

During "Let it Go," she’s accepted that her powers are beautiful. So, they make wonderful, beautiful things, from the entire palace made out of ice to her famous sparkly dress.

Then, there’s the reprise of "For the First Time in Forever," where she feels despair over her inability to be with Anna and unfreeze the kingdom. Of course, she accidentally makes a snowstorm inside the palace, and the walls go red. Later, when she is attacked by Hans, the palace goes yellow, representing her fear and rage.

Finally, there’s the climax of the movie. Her grief over Anna’s alleged death and all the other emotions in the movie climax into a huge snowstorm, which rages throughout the entirety of the climax until Anna freezes herself, when the snow breaks, because Elsa’s emotions either changed, or she just stopped feeling altogether

Gloves

During one of the non-singing parts of "Do You Want to Build a Snowman," Elsa’s father gives her gloves, and she uses them throughout the movie to hide her powers. She takes them off during "Let it Go," because she’s living with her power.

She stops hiding herself.

You know who else wears gloves for the entire movie? Hans. The only time he actually is himself is when he tells Anna that he wants to kill her.

And on that note--

"Love is an Open Door"

Hey! It’s Hans’ villain song!

I’ve been searching my whole life to find my own place. He gestures towards Arendelle as he says this.

When they say “You and I,” Hans says “You” and Anna says “And I,” so they’re both referring to Anna.

“We finish each other’s-“ Hans looks rather shocked when Anna says “sandwiches.”

Of course, this is an animated film. If Disney wanted to, they could get their choreography perfect. But it isn’t in this song. For instance, when Hans and Anna hop up onto the clock tower, Hans reaches for Anna, but she runs around the other side of the tower instead. Throughout the entirety of the song, Hans is simply following Anna around and following her movements and actions, feeding her the lines he thinks she wants to hear.

The song reinforces the metaphor of doors in the movie. Elsa, of course, closes Anna out of her room and leaves the palace doors closed. It can also refer to the closed-off nature of Hans and Elsa’s hearts, but ultimately Elsa opens up her palace doors to let Anna in and leaves the gates open at the end of the movie. Hans, on the other hand, closes the door on her and leaves her to die.

Bonus fact: The idea of doors extends from "Tangled." Mother Gothel’s room had no door, whereas her own room had one--additionally, she had a secret way out of the tower that Rapunzel didn’t know about.

Speaking of, Hans acts as a mirror. Around Anna, he’s all goofy. When he’s around the freezing citizens, he’s kind because the subjects of Arendelle know they have to stick together. He then turns vicious when around the Duke of Weaseltown and his goons. He’s fearful whenever he’s around Elsa

Allusions to the author

"Frozen" is based (very loosely) on Hans Christian Anderson’s "The Snow Queen." Anderson also wrote "The Little Mermaid," as well as "The Ugly Duckling," hence the appearance of ducklings during "For the First Time in Forever." And then, of course, he inspired the names. Say “Hans Kristoff Anna Sven” fast enough and it sounds like Hans Christen Andersen. Several other minor details, such as the ice skates at the end of the movie, originate from the fairy tale.

A big thanks to Disney Wiki for a lot of this information.