Movie Review: The Princess and the Frog

It's about time Disney made a princess movie, and a real cartoon at that. Computer animation is fine, but seriously, I'm a bit sick of it. With the exception of Toy Story, those movies are nowhere near as good as the good old classics like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. And don't get me started on 3-D. Talk about overdone.

But I digress.

I like princess movies, so I was happy to hear that Disney was finally doing another one. And I liked it. It was cute. Tiana was pretty, Prince Naveen was woo-woo, the 1920s fashion was fun. I liked that Tiana had spunk. She was more like Belle than Ariel, which is a good thing. She knew what she wanted (and it was not a man), she was willing to work hard for it, and she loved her parents very much.

I did have a couple of complaints, though. The biggest is, why on earth did they not get Harry Connick, Jr. to do the music? New Orleans jazz? Hello! The songs were not at all catchy, and just plain underwhelming.

Also, too much frog, not enough princess. Especially when they were making such a big deal about finally having a black princess. She's a frog for 2/3s of the time, for pete's sake.

I also found the bad guy a little too scary. I can't blame them for going the voo-doo route, since it's New Orleans and all, but he still was a bit much (though Hobbitsister said the kids who were in the theater when she saw it the first time weren't scared, which I found strange - we only had 2 kids there when we went, so I don't know).

Overall, though, I really liked it. What can I say? I'm a sucker for real Disney cartoons.