The Princess and the Frog

Specialty Other Disney
#21

This is a pretty groundbreaking year for animation:

We’ve got:

An old man and an Asian kid as the main characters in a Western animation; something that hasn’t been done before to my knowledge. (Up)

A subversive twist on the cliched plot of humans being the heroes of an alien invasion. (Battle for Terra)

A similar tale of human invasion on foreign planets, except the humans are friendly and the aliens act like us. (Planet 51)

A pantomime love story between two prehistoric squirrels. (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)

A sci-fi post apocalyptic tale featuring sack people and mechanical monsters. (9)

An animated film from Singapore that actually looks for once like a big-budget Hollywood production. (Kung Fu Gecko)

And Disney’s first traditionally-animated film in years with an epic story set in New Orleans and featuring a black princess. (The Princess and the Frog)

The rest are pretty much sequels (Happily N’Ever After 2: Snow White Anothe Bite @ the Apple), genre spoofs (Monsters Vs. Aliens) and book-to-film adaptations like Coraline, Where the Wild Things Are, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Fantastic Mr. Fox, but they’re all good in their right, I guess.

#22

It’s good to know that Hollywood is opening up…

#23

I’m seeing this JUST for 2D. :smiley:

#24

Are you guys excited for the FULL trailer premiere before Up? Or did you want to see a Toy Story 3 one instead?

#25

Both are fine with me, although I am a little more excited about the long overdue return of 2D animation at this point. :smiley:

#26

I did. :frowning:

#27

I was gonna post this, but you beat me to it, woody! :slight_smile:
Yes! Yes! Yes! I’m so excited to see TPATF! I think they’re doing like what they did last year with WALL-E/Bolt. Disney getting some airtime on Pixar’s side… hur.
But, yes, I am so pumped! Are you ready? Cos’ I am. It’s about time!

#28

Isn’t The Bear and the Bow in 2D, also?

#29

YES! :smiley: I don’t know what I’m more excited for, The Princess and the Frog trailer or Up. Only 32 more days. :smiley:

#30

For me, Up.

#31

Oh, yes, of course! We must not forget the main event itself! I guess I’m excited for both equally! :smiley:

#32

I friggin’ can’t wait for this movie.

Hopefully they make more movies like this. Kingdom Hearts can’t redeem the mouse alone.

#33

I heard they were supposed to make a Kingdom Hearts movie in 2007.

#34

After seeing the trailer, I could only say… meh

I’m not convinced it’ll be great.

#35

I hope it is.

#36

I respect your opinions, but I gotta say, this does have the formula for awsomeness. :laughing: It’s pretty much the same stuff as Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and The Little Mermaid, plus it’s got the same directors of Mermaid. What more could you ask for?

#37

I may not know much about the movie, but I seriously can’t wait for this movie.

One thing I just want to point out, though it may lean off-topic, is that people are making a big deal that this is Disney’s first black princess, yet they seem to forget that in Hercules, there were black goddesses. Just saying…

#38

That’s true, bright dot-dasher, though they weren’t really the main characters (though they did have a pretty sizeable part) and they weren’t really goddesses, just nymphs.

I am looking forward to this movie, because hopefully it will be a good turning point for Disney, but I’m still undecided as to whether or not I’ll actually go and see it in the cinema.

#39

If you guys head over to the official website now, you’ll see the logo has changed! :smiley:

Old logo:

New logo:

If you ask me, I prefer the original logo, but the new one looks ‘cuter’. :wink:

#40

I don’t really know, they look pretty much the same to me, except for the new logo looks a lot more polished and “professional”. Any news of this is getting me so excited! :smiley: I can’t believe the trailer is going to be two and a half minutes long! It’s a dream come true! :smiley: