Happy New Year! And my review of The Princess and the Frog
I hope everyone had an awesome Christmas and a happy New Year. I can't believe it's already 2010... I'm not going to be a teenager anymore in November, and that's something that still hasn't sunk in. D=
I don't really have many resolutions. I just want to get along with my brother better, attend more church events, update my deviantart more often and grow in my artistic abilities. Everything else is either not all that important, or I just don't feel like worrying about it. There are some things I'd like to happen, but I'm not going to feel like I've wasted the year if they don't. Worrying about things all the time is overrated.
Later I'm going to come up with my list of movies I've seen this year and which were the best/which I enjoyed most, but first I'll post my review of The Princess and the Frog, which I got to see yesterday afternoon with my mom. I'm not going to warn about spoilers because as long as you've seen the theatrical trailer you won't be spoiled by anything in my review anyway. Anything not mentioned in the trailers here is very mild, and shouldn't count as a spoiler.
I've been looking forward to this movie ever since I saw the trailer. Not only was Disney finally coming out with another traditionally hand-drawn animated film, they were putting a really neat twist on a classic fairytale. And I also felt it was about time we got an African American Princess. The more I learned about the project, the more I loved it, just like I did with Coraline, and John Lasseter, Ron Clements, John Musker, and their team of animators did an awesome job. It wasn't perfect, but it was still well worth the price of the tickets, and I believe it even deserves a second...third...maybe fourth viewing. And that's just in theaters. The main characters are great (independent heroin, hilarious male lead), the villain is fun and has got a really catchy song complete with Disney Acid Sequence (probably the coolest I've seen since 'Be Prepared'. Not better than it, but in the same range of coolness), and it's got amazing 2D animation that makes you go "How'd they do that???"
Not to mention, Naveen and Tiana are adorable as frogs. True, there could have been just a tiny bit more buildup to them falling for eachother, but the way the film handles their relationship is still better than some of Disney's older couples. There's character development, bonding through a musical sequence (it's Disney, it counts), etc.
Oh and in case you haven't already heard of this monstrocity, don't fall for the cheap (and believe me, I mean CHEAP) rip off they're actually selling in the DVD section at some stores (I'm looking at you, walmart). Video Brinquedo, a company in Brazil that likes making cheap knock-offs of popular films in the most terrible quality in order to make money, have already made a rip-off of TPATF. You can see Microsoft Sam freaking out about it here if you like. www.youtube.com/watch