Movie Reviews for Families

The filmmakers have brewed up a delicious roots story in every sense of the word. Guests got the royal treatment at “The Princess and the Frog” is over you’ll want to smooch the charming couple, air kiss a romantic firefly and hug a voodoo queen in this foot-stomping, smile-inducing, heart-warming animated twist on the old Brothers Grimm frog-prince fairy tale.

As someone who writes for a living, I was completely floored at the structure of this film. And the writing is amazing. These are good and wholesome lessons that are going to really strengthen the next generation of both boys and girls, and I’m happy that it’s going to be an influence on the younger generation. Where does this sound familiar. They were so busy looking at the BAD GUY use voodoo that they didn’t realize that Terrence Howard’s character was pretty much a walking sermon. I also saw a comment about how someone didn’t like it because of the non-Christian message thanks to the use of voodoo.

I can honestly say that this movie is completely respectful and absolutely nothing in it is racist, to the point where it is obvious that Disney is trying their hardest NOT to be racist and cuts corners on the storytelling and historical racism that WOULD have been in New Orleans in 1920. So as soon as I heard that Disney was coming out with their triumphant return to 2-D, I felt like the world was FINALLY getting its act together. And when Disney failed so terribly in the early millennium and closed down shop, my heart was broken. As a young female twenty-something, my 90’s childhood was shaped by the Golden Age of Disney. When and where does this film take place. Prince Naveen: What a coincidence, because I have been avoiding you everywhere. Those streets run parallel to one another. Errors in geography: During the Mardi Gras parade, Tiana is seen observing the parade from atop street signs depicting the intersection or Rue Bourbon and Rue Royale in the French Quarter.

Alan Menken and his new lyricist Glenn Slater were originally going to do the music for the film, but John Lasseter didn’t want the public to feel that Disney was becoming repetitive, because Menken had been scoring another fairy tale film, Enchanted.