Sunday, January 10, 2010
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
This was the first movie that my wife and I took our daughter to see in the theaters, and in retrospect, I think it was a pretty good choice. She did well, for the most part, and the movie was very good. The Princess and the Frog is Disney's re-imagining of the classic tale of a princess kissing a frog. This movie takes place in New Orleans, where a carefree prince is turned into a frog by the Shadowman, and an ambitious young girl who is not herself a princess, gets turned into a frog by kissing someone she should not have. This film was produced in the classic Disney manner, without any computer animation or 3D imaging, but with the old-school hand drawn pictures that made Disney famous. It was cool to see a movie that took me back to the days of The Fox and the Hound and Robin Hood, and while The Princess and the Frog was no Lion King, I think it belongs on the higher end of classic Disney animated features list. The film fell victim to the same problem that a lot of cartoons do, the middle portion is very slow. The beginning and the end of The Princess and the Frog are great, with a lot of riveting action that keeps the audience, adults included, engrossed; during the second third of the film, I was checking my watch and wondering how much longer we would be in the theater. The ending was great though, and while at certain times the action was a little scary to my two year old, I have no real complaints. Something I liked about the film was that the producers did not overwhelm the story by getting a lot of big name actors to voice the characters. Instead, they let the movie speak for itself, and I think it worked really well. All told, my wife and I really enjoyed the movie and think that it was the perfect film for my daughter's first theater experience. I would recommend it to any child and to most adults. I give The Princess and the Frog 3 stars.
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