Elsa is insufferable in Frozen 2 (warning: long rant)

In Frozen 2, Elsa is absolutely insufferable.

Let’s start from the beginning. Three years have passed since the events of the first film. Elsa is unhappy with her life in Arendale—you know living in luxury and surrounded by people who have shown her nothing but unwavering love and devotion for the past three years despite her nearly freezing them to death. Totally understandable.

Anyway, she starts hearing a voice which she refers to as a siren (ironically portrayed as a force of good) who constantly sings “OohhhAhhahahaaa!” into her head every five seconds. Elsa sounds freakn' insane as she has a one-sided conversation with it, saying “are you someone out there who's a little bit like me? Who knows deep down I'm not where I'm meant to be?” I’m sorry what? Its literally screeching incoherently into your head like a reindeer in heat. Why are you relating to it?

Anyhow, Elsa belts “Into the Unknown” over and over again and it is so painfully ear grating, she ends up awakening spirits thousands of miles away and putting Arendale in danger (again).

Anna is rightfully annoyed that Elsa shut her out (again) and never told her about the siren and now they’ve got to go fix her mess and travel to the enchanted forest. Elsa, in her great wisdom, elects the trolls to serve as regents of her human kingdom and they depart.

In the forest, Elsa treats Anna and everyone else like a nuisance in the way of her grand destiny. She behaves like a awestruck toddler trying to stick her finger into an electrical outlet as her overprotective mother Anna runs helplessly after her.

There is a scene in which Elsa sees the rock giants for the first time, immediately she is transfixed and gets up to follow them, fully prepared to ABANDON her sister and everyone without warning. Anna has to PULL HER BACK and remind her of the mission. If you look at Elsa’s expression while Anna talks, you can tell she isn’t really listening to her, she is thinking about those stupid giants. Then she looks longingly in their direction and says “I wonder if I can tame them.” MY GAWD. Your kingdom is in literal danger and you want to play Pokemon.

Later, Elsa decides she must go to Ahtohallen without Anna because its “too dangerous.” She shoves her onto a boat made of ice without paddles, sending her down a river teeming with sleeping rock giants. Yes, clearly Anna’s safety is the utmost priority to Elsa.

In Athohallen, Elsa sings “Show Yourself.” Looking at the lyrics, you would forget that Elsa is supposed to be there to save Arendale because she makes it all about HERSELF. She says, “Are you the one I've been looking for all of my life?” and “I have always been so different. Normal rules did not apply.” DUMBASS PICK ME.

And guess who the siren is? It is a projection of her mother validating her, “You are the one you’ve been searching for.” Imagine nearly drowning fighting a primordial water spirit and then you're told advice you could have found in a self help book. Of course, Elsa being the narcissist that she is eats it all up.

After Elsa “dies" Anna enters her villain arc and decides to destroy a dam and flood her kingdom as reparations for her colonizer grandpa’s mistakes. It turned out Anna was the hidden antagonist of the film—excellent twist!

In her only show of queenly competence in the entire film, Elsa the Blue becomes Elsa the White, saving Arendale from the deranged despot, Anna the Mad. Unfortunately Anna’s insanity directly transfers to Elsa who decides to abdicate the throne and elect Anna as queen of Arendale even though she nearly destroyed it. During Anna’s coronation, Elsa is nowhere in sight, that is because Elsa is shown to be dashing toward her new home, Ahtohallen, a glacier in the middle of a perilous sea where no one can reach her. Truly the icon and the moment.

TL;DR: Elsa in Frozen 2 is insufferable because she is selfish, prioritizing herself over everyone and shutting Anna out. Instead of showing this as problematic, the narrative justifies Elsa's behavior, portraying it as empowering. A total disservice to who she was at the end of the first film.

btw: I know this is long! Thank you for anyone who read it.

EDIT: I also think Anna is just as insufferable as Elsa but for sake of not making this post too long, I focused more on Elsa.