The Princess and the Frog
 

Disney's upcoming 2D animated movie:

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/07/30/...easer-trailer/

Yes! Finally back to Traditional. I love her facial expressions, she reminds me a bit, facially, of nani from Lilo and Stitch.
Haha not sure about that toothless firefly though? Kinda poking at that southern stereotype thing again. I am surprised he didn't have a banjo
It's looks cute though, "How about a handshake" :lol:

Was that Jim Cummings as the firefly?

Anyhow, the animation looked great. The frog's expressions alone screamed good old fashioned classic Disney.

Looking forward to this as much now as I was before.

Think it looks cute.

Love that it's 2D animated (really miss that), like the new princess, and am thrilled to see that Jim Cummings is in it (he's my favorite voice actor, followed by Rob Paulsen and Billy West).

I've been watching this movie develop for the last couple years.. Should be interesting. The first American princess for Disney...and the first African princess too. It's set in 1920's New Orleans.

I kinda liked it better when her name was Maddy tho instead of Tiana. Ah well.

The cast is:
Anika Noni Rose - Princess Tiana (The 19-year-old heroine.)
Jennifer Cody - Charlotte La Bouff (An 18-year-old spoiled, southern debutante and diva)
Keith David - Dr. Facilier (A Voodoo magician/fortune teller. The villain of the movie)
Jenifer Lewis - Mama Odie (A 200-year-old Voodoo priestess/fairy Godmother)
Jim Cummings - Ray (Love sick firefly)
Michael-Leon Wooley - Louis (Jazz singer alligator. Comic, manic, high-strung. Has a trumpet.)
Bruno Campos - Prince Naveen (A gregarious, fun-loving Prince who comes to the French Quarter for the Jazz scene, in his early twenties. A young Cary Grant type.)
Peter Bartlett - Lawrence (Prince Naveen's pompous valet.)
John Goodman - Eli "Big Daddy" La Bouff (Charlotte's dad. Rich and owns a Sugar mill)
Angela Bassett - Eudora (Tiana's mother)

Randy Newman's of course doing the music.

Oh man I can't WAIT to see this movie. :D It's so awsome to see a good traditional Disney animated movie again. Extra points for Jim Cummings being in it. (he's one of my fav voice actors ;))

Then u should be happy that Jim Cummings will soon be heard as the voice of King Triton in the Little Mermaid III (out Aug 26th) :P

I wouldn't doubt it. The guy spent a lot of his life in Lousiana... he was in a lot of Mardis Gras parades... so of course he would have a wonderful cajiun accent... like he did when he played Leatherhead.

Anyway, the film looks okay. Not too much to go on. But this is such a highly anticipated film. Look at how they wound up screwing up 2-D for the longest time. They even planned it so Brother Bear and Home on the Range were their last 2-D films. And the only reason they had their own CGI studio at the time was because they didn't think they'd wind up buying Pixar. I mean, Chicken Little was a sweet little film, but their others have been misses. I REALLY hated Dinosaur.

It's nice to see a traditionally animated movie again, but I'm not really feeling this so far. I mean I like Disney movies, but I'm a little disappointed by this being yet another formulaic looking princessy flick. I thought the old princess design was also more fitting for the theme and time-period, so why did they change it? She went from a cool mature looking African-American jazz-era woman to a racially ambiguous Hispanic-Caucasian-Asian-African teenage girl.

But who am I kidding? I'll go see it anyway cause it's 2D animated and I feel the need to support it. I just hope the next trailer can win my heart over for real.

Win. It's about damn time he voiced a Disney villain.

Hey, it was a nice formula, until they added Pocahauntus to the list and started making it predictable. Critics were all over Disney for making princess movies, but as soon as they made something different, they were criticized for not doing princess films. And it really was a double edged sword.

Another thing I'd like to add... of course it took them so long to do an African American princess film. All the fairy tales that people have known and love are from Europe and the middle ages to the 1800's. The hub of whiteness.

I'm surprised they didn't do another African tale, similar to the Lion King, but with a more human cast.

thankyou we are finnally getting back on tract with the decent animation in Disney instead of all this ugly computer animated crap. This looked really good, I hope since this is hand drawn that they can reclaim the glory and nostalgia of Disney's past master pieces of hand drawn movies.

And I think that sistah looks really pretty. About time they had a black herion in the disney line-up.

Man, I wish Masked Ninja was around to comment on this. I know they Love the good 2-D animation as much as I do... :D

Maybe this movie'll be a good sign for Disney to realize that people want the traditional art. Anyone can mess around with a computer. It takes REAL skill to animate by hand..

This story kinda hints of Cinderella. She's not the 'traditional' princess like Jasmine or Snow White, but more like how Belle became a 'princess' by marriage. I kinda thought they would do an African location as well, but I'm sure New Orleans will like the bit of attentions...

*that frog SO reminds me of my dad...*

Oh my gosh, it's Jean Bob from the Swan Princess! :D

hehe

This looks great. In a computer era I'm so glad they're going back to their roots of hand drawn!

Especially with random third parties oversaturizing the market with generic fodder like Fly me to the Moon and Space Chimps.

Still disappointed we didn;t get any way shape and form of Asterix and the Vikings... not even on DVD... considering they used an American voice cast, and aired it at an American film festilval. I saw various trailers... the animation was beautiful. Ditto the Lucky Luck movie from France.

I'm looking forward to this.

I am realy excited about this. It's been eons since I've seen a traditionally drawn movie up on the big screen. The trailer was pretty cute as well ('til the firefly turned up. Damn that thing annoyed me). Hopefully Disney will keep the traditional 2D animation medium alive after the release of this one. :)

wasn't there a diffrent design for the african princess than the one they have here? I've been seeing alot of debate about how the orgins of the princess has changed to that of a society girl from a supposed chamber maid named Maddie.

:roll:

Leave it to my people to making a racist thing out of all this.

Yeah. She was originally a chamber maid named Maddie.

This is her original look (I took the picture from when the original article aired in 07 and kept it)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/Dierna/Maddie.jpg

And now this is Princess Tiana:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...gprincess2.jpg

From wikipedia:
WTF??? A chambermaid is an occupation some felt not in keeping with the image of a Disney Princess?! Um... Cinderella anyone?!

As for the name Maddie....how is that a stereotypical black name??? WTF?! I have never heard of any black person with that name!! Maddie is short for Madeline. You know.. Madeline Albright, Madeline Pryor, Madeline the little French orphan... :ohwell: