Quite possibly the best Disney princess movie EVER. And right up there with classics like Lion King and Beauty and the Beast.

BEAUTIFUL movie. Can't begin to describe all the emotions I experienced watching this movie. BRILLIANT. FANTASTIC. MAGNIFICENT.

A true masterpiece.

Disney animation is ALIVE!!!

Triumphant! Disney returns to traditional animation and it's an instant classic. Star-cross'd lovers, a nefarious villain, adorable animals, an inclusive, wise message, Randy Newman songs--these comforting, warm elements come together to form a rousing whole. I left the theatre with an enormous smile on my face.

A

This was wonderful. Tiana, as voiced by the delightful Anika Noni Rose, is a headstrong and independent female Disney character ranking right up there with Belle, Jasmine and Mulan. The visuals are stunning and the New Orleans setting is wonderfully spirited. Several of the musical numbers work very well, particularly "Dig a Little Deeper." This is a sumptuous and spirited work that I hope is a step in Disney's direction of making more traditionally animated films. A-

I don't know HOW many times I listened to "Dig a Little Deeper" on a loop today. LOL I just can't get enough of that song. It makes me just want to hop up and start dancing around, clapping along.

I can't decide if my favorite sequence is "Dig a Little Deeper" or "Goin' Down to the Bayou"... The visuals plus the rhythms on the latter were just...

But then, there was also "Ma Belle Evangeline"... and "Down in New Orleans"... and...

Well, gosh, I really cannot pick a favorite. I loved it ALL. This is one movie that is going on my DVD shelf the MINUTE it's released in stores.

Joy

Roo says this was better than Up...

I'll probably have to see this now.

i wonder if joe likes this movie?

I thought it was cute and enjoyable. Nothing as great as the Disney classics of the 90's but it was fun.

7/10 (B-)

Good fun movie but the lion king and Beauty and the Beast still jave to be considered the best. IMO.

I really really loved it. One of my favorite movies of the year, period. Walks the perfect line between following convention plot-wise and still making you attached to the story. In particular I liked how the swamp always seemed to have an element of danger, it kept the film hopping.

I'm more impressed by Disney adopting a feminist/ambition possessed girl in the lead, than the black thing. It's a really nice spin when placed against the fairytale tradition of the waiting for a man princess.

The villain is good, and I loved how he didn't dominate the film. GREAT move by Disney to put the focus on Tiana/Naveen and the swamp characters, it's their movie. A lesser film (like The Emperor's New Groove) would've brought Facilier to the swamp and made him the center of attention and song numbers. Here he only appeared for important plot points, which in turn made it feel more special when he did show up

Bruno Campos' voice work is terrific. His first 30 minutes as the frog is classic. Cummings as Ray is even better though. When he dies I went totally



One of the first things I thought when leaving the theatre was "That was better than anything Pixar's done in years" (I guess since The Incredibles). In fact The Princess and the Frog made me realize how much I'm not all that into Pixar. I buy into the hype when they're released like everyone but at the end of the day I felt a lot more attached to the story and characters here. Or I just love musicals...

I think the more Pixar makes movies involving real people, the less interesting their films become, because then they're using animation to make a regular live-action movies. While something like TPATF or earlier Pixar movies like A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo, have stuff that can only fit here.

Absolutely excellent, and I give credit to John Lasseter for bringing his Pixar story sense to Disney. The films they have made since he arrived (including "Bolt") are a great improvement over more recent Disney crap like "The Wild" and "Treasure Planet". Good to see Disney being the studio to beat again!

uhh i dunno about studio to beat when its currently 40 million behind its budget right now

Going to assume he meant creatively. Which is true.

Absolutely. As we all know, ticket sales are not often an indication of quality.

Besides, Disney will make plenty off this movie no matter what, through DVD sales and merchandising and re-releases and so on. Even if it doesn't do that well at the box office, girls will still be buying Tiana dolls 30 years from now, just like they do with Cinderella toys.

all true except on the Cinderella purchase comparision..think Cinderella is too high a comparision....wonder if Tiana will even equal Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

I was using Cinderella because it came out in the 50s and is still selling, but otherwise I agree with you. A Disney "princess" movie pays for itself many times over. (I'm sure if they could find a way to pretend that Mulan was a princess, they'd be doing the same with her).

Guess I was right. If you go to the Disney Princess page, they not only consider Mulan a Princess, but also Pocohontas. Good grief.

http://disney.go.com/princess/#/home/

Classic Disney style, and love the songs and how they're integrated with the story. Almost has the feel of a musical. One of the best films of the year, period.

I liked it a lot, but there was just something missing that i can't put my finger on.

I actually thought it was pretty average if not borderline boring at times.

memorable song, memorable character, memorable scene

Considering that the movie is, in all respects, a full-blown musical, I can't help but feel that your comment is indicative of some essential failure on the film's part.

Heh. Yeah, doesn't really need the almost part; it's an animated musical.

I completely disagree here though each his own I guess.

Although I felt Wall-E was overrated, and of course there's Cars, Ratatouille and Up are far superior to Princess and the Frog character-wise.

Princess was a fun time but it's nothing spectacularly great and it has one of the worst romances in Disney's history. The duo get married after hours. I don't care if it's a princess movie or a kids movie, though the animators say it's not a kids movie, that turn was horrific. The overpraised Walt-era princesses were the worst offenders when it came to romance/fantasy/character development but this seriously challenges them.

Tiana was one of the best female characters in awhile out of Hollywood and animation, Pixar certainly hold no ground in that terms since they have virtually no female main characters, but she falls to the formulaic I-need-a-man/love plot point that is so commonplace these days it might as well be law. Mama Odie's 'What you need' bullshit was pathetic. I know it's a movie and they don't have a lot of time but the way it was done was bad. I have watched a few other Disney movies recently and although it does seem this particular subplot was never Disney's strength, this marriage was really bad. If they aren't going to do it properly, they might as well not do it at all. If I am to compare with Lion King, Atlantis, Tarzan and Hunchback of Notre Dame, I will say it is unbelievable and artificial. In terms of strength I'd say Lion King and Atlantis because the relationship is started off whilst young in the former, and no matter the criticism of the latter, the relationship between Kida and Milo is given enough time and content to bloom appropriately. It is also within both character arcs to want a relationship as such. In Hunchback, it's more forced between Esmerelda and Phoebus but since they both become secondary characters it's not as noticeable and because the romance is not the main part of the story, it works within it. Tarzan, however, had been my second favourite Disney movie from memory, ascending to first after the disappointing Lion King reviewing, but, upon rewatching, it too fails at this romance subplot. The decision to stay in the jungle with no food, clothes, hygiene etc with an ape man is beyond the character. Suspension of disbelief yes, and ironic as well that it is more believable to have a man raised by apes than having a woman stay behind after falling in love with the chap.

So really, PATF holds nothing to Pixar. In fact, I'd say Wall-E suffers from the same problem since the romance between the robots is also unbelievable. There is hardly any worthwhile communication between EVE and Wall-E and though words are not necessary to show love, there must be basis for love in the first place. To put it in crude terms, Wall-E has a hard-on for Apple EVE and she shows him pity after he stalks her from Earth to the mothership. Dedication is admirable but the relationship moves too fast and therefore becomes unrelatable and as before, unbelievable.

8/10 -> B

It a really good movie and I'm a bit sad Disney doesn't have more 2D projects in the pipeline. While it's not a top tier Disney musical, it does have it's moments. It's biggest fault is that the main characters feel bland and are pretty uninteresting. But the supporting characters are really wonderful and make up for that.