I am SO glad that Disney has reverted back to its classic animation style. No more silly CG movies. It's not that I don't love Meet the Robinsons and all the movies Pixar has put out, but I love the classic Disney movies.
It's no wonder why they stopped producing animated films. Thier film to see if it was still viable was Home on the Range. Who even saw that movie? Seriously.
But finally someone had a brilliant idea and said "Hey! Kids loved movies like Aladdin and The Lion King. Let's try it out on this generation. Home on the Range was a terrible movie to do the demographic study anyway because no one bothered to see a show about singing cows, especially with Nickalodean's Barnyard coming out around the same time."
And thus, The Princess and the Frog was born. Plus, Disney added it's own twist on the classic story, instead of copying it straight out of a book and removing the violence like Beatury and the Beast and Cinderella. Hurray for trying to be original!
The movie itself is wonderful. The songs were great and it wasn't the typical Disney Princess movie. Sure, Tiana had her own struggles to overcome, but she also had to deal with being a frog. And in the end, she decided being a frog was okay. I don't think any of the other Princesses would have said that -- all they wanted was true love and the crown.
Also, Prince "Charming" was an egotistical jerk, not at all charming. Sure, girls fawned over him, but his personality was severely lacking in princely-ness. It was nice to see a prince with a personality; not only that, but a flawed personality.
If you haven't seen it, see it. If you don't, Disney will revert to only CG movies and an artform will be forever lost (aka for twelve years until they decide to test again) . Given one of the teaser trailors, however, I think their test was a success and we'll soon have Repunzel retold by Disney. I'm excited.
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