Comments | quaggy_mire: If you can't find it on the internet, does it really exist?

quaggy_mire

If you can't find it on the internet, does it really exist?

Jun 27, 2011 20:12

For some reason, I've had this one movie stuck in my head. It was a live-action adaptation of the Frog Prince, circa the late 1980s. I'm pretty sure it was on the Disney Channel. (Seems too sweet and girly for Nick.) There were two princess. One was blond, spoiled and selfish and the other, the heroine, was sweet, if a little childish and plain. ( Read more... )

television, movies, quaggy is a geek

Leave a comment

Back to all threads

flippet June 28 2011, 11:51:36 UTC

YES ITS REAL I WATCHED THIS, LIKE, LAST MONTH.

I think my kids got it from the library? I can't imagine where else we would have picked it up, I'm pretty sure it wasn't netflix. (Unless maybe it was an instant watch? Hm...I'll have to see.)

But yes, as soon as you started describing it, I was like - oh yeah, that freakishly weird frog prince thing.

If I think really hard, maybe I can remember who was in it for you - it seemed to have someone who was semi-known?

flippet June 28 2011, 12:14:47 UTC

I FOUND IT!!! Yay, Netflix!

It's this: The Frog Prince. (If that link doesn't work for you because it's on my login or something, maybe you can just search for it there.)

It starred Aileen Quinn as the True Princess, and her sister was - wait for it - Helen Hunt. :-)

Really weird little flick, but it passed the time.

quaggy_mire June 28 2011, 15:13:12 UTC

Oh my god, Flip! You're amazing! (So it was the mis-remembered Punky Brewster connection that was tripping me up!) Thank you! You will not believe how that was driving me crazy! And HELEN HUNT?!! I would have never made that connection!

quaggy_mire June 28 2011, 15:23:10 UTC

The Frog Prince was also the guy who played Jambi the Genie on Pee-wee's Playhouse. He's at least 20 years older than Aileen Quinn. I remember that the prince was an "adult" while Zola was still a little girl... but it's still a little creepy.

flippet June 28 2011, 16:05:30 UTC

I remember that the prince was an "adult" while Zola was still a little girl... but it's still a little creepy.

That absolutely jumped out at me when we watched - I found it highly creepy too, and was hoping against hope that they wouldn't cross that line. (I don't remember that they did, but they walked it carefully in a few places. It's almost like they were aware of it, and tried to pull back a bit, but the basic storyline kind of held them to it.)

Glad I could help, though! I think our taste is pretty similar in many ways - I suppose it's not too surprising that it's something I would have picked out/okayed for my kids to watch, and that you'd seen it too. It is kind of obscure, though.

quaggy_mire June 28 2011, 20:57:57 UTC

Yeah, I remember as a kid thinking "Wait, he's old... and not cute!" They technically could have gotten someone younger to be the Prince after the spell is broken. Nobody would have cared if he was shorter and had a different voice.

I think our taste is pretty similar in many ways

Yeah, if I had to take a guess, I would have said you were the one out of all my friends who would've seen it. How funny that it was only recently though! Like you said it's obscure and if I had started pondering a year or two earlier, you wouldn't have seen it!

Back to all threads