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THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG Poster is Cinematically Inclined!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... Right now, you're probably thinking that I'm shilling extra hard for THE PRINCESS & THE FROG - but that this year brings us the first Disney 2D animated feature in theaters since the horrific HOME ON THE RANGE - and the first possibly great one since LILO & STITCH - well this is as hopeful for me as it is that James Cameron has a new film this year. That one is using classic techniques and Cameron is innovating something new altogether... Well that's exciting. That doesn't mean I'm giving this film a pass... Disney's classic animation hasn't had a great one in a while. And admittedly this may not be great, but by Lassiter, I have to believe they've nailed it. I love the look of the poster, which CINEMATICAL has HERE!!! Meanwhile over at APPLE at This Location you can see the new trailer in GLORIOUS HD QUICKTIME AWESOMENESS! And I just noticed... it's opening on my Birthday this year! Woo Hoo!
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I saw this over at Blue Sky Disney earlier today. Great to see Disney back in the game. Now, on to Rapunzel.
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This movie actually looks decent. Racist and ignorant. But decent.
I love how all old black women in these cartoons absolutely HAVE to talk in ebonic like uneducated lingo. Its just not acceptable to the suit and ties to have it any other way. -
I've missed Disney's 2D animation.
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I love hand-drawn animation. But then, I grew up on it. None of this CG stuff back then, no siree.
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i don't get the excitement. what has looked good in this thing so far? the character design is terrible, ugly. the same shit that made disney movies fail so badly a few years ago. this will likely be a success (with proper marketing they even made wolverine into kind of a success) but seriously, this doesnt live up to disney's standards from 30 years ago...
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May 11, 2009 8:06:21 PM CDT
If there's one thing I love more than AICN posting old news....
by jackie boy
...It's opening the article, only to have to follow another link to see the fucking content.
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will SONG OF THE SOUTH finally be released on DVD the same day?
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Looking forward to it.
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You've obviously never been to New Orleans. People do talk like that and perhaps you should look up Floyd Norman, he's a Disney Legend (one of their great animators) that's seen the film and loves it and doesn't think it's in anyway racist. He's also black if that matters, which it shouldn't.
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I hope this does well
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Now if only T4 had that blue tint....
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http://tinyurl.com/q8bu5g
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The chief purpose of the development of this movie is about as disguised as a family-oriented Nintendo DS game which features three distinct ethnicities on the cover. Disney's financially successful "Disney Princess" series of toys and games has a couple of big ol' conspicuous blanks in its character lineup, and this movie is intended to fill one of those blanks, in order to make said character lineup more culturally relatable and, thereby, more profitable.
Wake me up in a year or two when they present the compelling premise for a 2d animated movie featuring a princess who hails from south of Texas or west of France. -
it's fun to predict which vaguely ethnically stereotyped anthropomorphized character will have which ethnically stereotyped voice.maybe they got George Lucas as a consultant!!
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that was mean, but way funnier than the rest of the idiots who just spew anger to Harry for his...um...creative writing.I give you a B-
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just sayin'
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The early teaser stuff left me cold. The trailer looks better, but still I'm on the fence. But the poster art is just perfect for a Disney Feature. Looks great. Makes me want to see it, which I will, anyway.
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It's going to be better than it would have been. Maybe not perfect, but certainly worthy of Disney. Just sayin'.
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Keep shilling though..I'm sure the banner ads will be next
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...all about oral sex right? right? Come on baby...kiss that frog!...
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you got to farther back then that, to the Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast days for truly great cinema. If this is only Lilo and Stich quality it would be a nice final movie for the end of 2d animation at Disney, this needs to be clasic, like kick the shit out of Pixar magnitude.
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the 'disney style' of character and animal design is a disease. they no longer resemble the things they were supposed to be. each generation of cartoonists just bases the animal designs off of the last one, and now we are at a point where the alligator in this movie doesn't even look like an alligator- but a caricature of other disney alligators, like 5 generations removed.
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If we are indeed back to good years there has to be a penis hidden in the poster.
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Look at the weed below the evil character's hand -- it's spewing starlight.
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Wow! This movie really speaks to us!
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It was by the ugliest Disney movie ever, and the characters were poorly fleshed.
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Sorry, it just wasn't. It was funny, and had some old fashioned Disney animated designs. It had a lame ending (everyone dancing like clockwork), and of course everyone hates anything with Roseanne in it, but the absurdity of the Randy Quaid villain yodeling sent it into the sublime. It felt more fully cooked than Brother Bear and besides, Hercules was far worse. All that said, Lilo and Stitch was great but it's not the last great Disney animated movie. That was Treasure Planet, hands down.
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For the same reason I would from car lot that screams CARS! CARS! CARS! at you.
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This looks like their regular goofy 2d shit.
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Which is a good thing...if there is one thing I hate about 2D dying, is that it put that genius out of work. I pray he comes back, and the first thing he gives us is a Dragon's Lair movie similar to the comics he's drawn and written about them.
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...just because Tiana in heavily shadowed in the background of the poster so you can't tell she's black.
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...I'm loving what Lasseter and company are bringing to the party.
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because he said he was leaving there after they dared to censor and edit his affinty for posting pictures of penises.
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too bad no one cares about him. Not even his mommy.
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So will 3d CGI films us 2d hand drawn versions of the character to sell it to the younger crowd. I wonder if some kid will see the poster- never see the trailer walk into the movie see the 2d animation and get pissed...
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the little mermaid when they road the boat in the bayou. That was little mermaid right???? Been so long since I seen that film.
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Makes sense.
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The trailer looked really good to me. It made me laugh out loud which doesn't actually happen for me much while watching trailers. It could be a turd, but all signs point to it being rather great.
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Birthday, just means that Harry can eat cake in the theater!
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The princess is not black enough! RACIST!
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racist because it's the first black disney princess. It's racist because it's the first black disney princess so of course the villain has to look like a pimp...
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Hmmm...
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Finally someone else with some love for Lilo & Stitch
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Fuck yes!!!!
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Which holiday? What dates your birthday Harry?
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that if this movie weren't targeting a black demographic with apparently 100% black characters (who voices the animal characters, by the way?), do you think Disney would have gone for the cheap, 2-d style of animation? A good racism cry would be something like, "2-D animation is Disney's ghetto!"
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It's about time you got an update from Iron Jim on Avatar.
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Was a "GREAT" Disney film? What am I missing? It was good, yeah. But is it CINDERELLA, SNOW WHITE or LION KING great. Ahhhhh....I don't think so. --G
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But, if they had released this one year after Home on the Range, it would have bombed terribly. So the lesson is: if you have a franchise or a style of film that is not going well, just wait.
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I mean he wants to fuck black chicks.
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couldnt find it at the link above, but here's another link to the trailer and poster: http://tinyurl.com/qnbaaw
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What is with all the comments here? There was a time (30's and 40's) when Disney was about raising the bar in animation for everyone. Does the trailer, character design, background and layout style suggest "a triumphant return" to 2D animation glory? The story looks worn-out and derivative from the first frame. It looks like they chose the safest route to box-office and home video sales (hit the sentimental "princess" button. Not enough princess stories for girls these days!)
Iron Giant (Brad Bird) and Cat's Don't Dance (Mark Dindal) took creative risks and failed at the box-office (mainly due to Warner's mishandling), but Disney recognizes talent and hoped to reap the creative rewards by hiring the directors Dindal, who did Emperor's New Groove, and Brad Bird (who went to Pixar, thank god).
This new film comes from a Disney stalwart Ron Clements (Little Mermaid, Alladin, Treasure Planet...). It will look like a "timeless classic", and I don't doubt that it will be technically above par. However, where is the spirit of innovation, of creative risk, of being bold that Disney had from the 30's to the 60's? Fantasia was a huge risk, and we still go back and watch it. Does this trailer give anyone the sense that there is some creative breakthroughs going on that will make the return to 2D worth it?
If John Lasseter has anything to do with this, please, stop thinking of Disney as a money/merch factory and go for the brilliance that Pixar has shown!
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Eisner is gone, after all....and the animation is stunning, yeah, effin' STUNNING. If Lasseter matched a good story to this 2D production then he's got a whompin' stompin' hit on his hands, and we'll all celebrate. If it isn't avant-garde enough for you, then go watch your bleak ironic crucifix-in-a-jar kind of "art" and enjoy your clove cigarettes. Producing quality fare isn't selling out, it's Disney doing what Disney used to do best.
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enough already! you are a grown man. why the hell are you so excited about a disney animation film? im sorry that the first post has to be so negative, but goodness, its just another shitty disney movie. please. enough.
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Pixar raised the bar. They went beyond the fairy-tale re-hashing. They wrote original stories. They did talking animals, toys and humans that didn't need to break into smarmy song. The animation was Disney quality and beyond. It was and is quality fare. Disney took a cold shower in the 2D department and took on Lasseter for a reason. So why do they have to go back to worn-out, derivative princess fairy-tale nonsense? Awesome animation aside, does this look fresh in any way?
Oh and Sleeping Beauty was called "avant-garde" in it's time. Does that qualify as "bleak ironic crucifix-in-a-jar kind of "art"?
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And most fans that come to this site are going have a great deal of fondness for Disney's animation legacy and high interest in its present and future. If you don't I'd suspect it's because you are of an age that was abandonded by a very short sighted executive regime whose mistakes are slowly being corrected. Anxious to see how this turns out.
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Thanks. I didn't intend for my comment to be mean spirited. Sometimes it is really tough to get through an article on this site. If someone makes a living from writing, it simply stands to reason he should have a grasp of language, punctuation and grammar If for no other reason than to make it easier for the reader. I admire Harry for what he has accomplished but It might be time for him to step up his game a little.
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"...Awesome animation aside, does this look fresh in any way?" Dude, we can't judge the story from the trailer. Just the animation. Which we agree looks effin' STUNNING. There's a good production team in place here, and every possibility that this could be a renaissance film. Pixar sure as hell DID raise the bar, and there's no reason Princess & Frog can't clear it.
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... and I haven't enjoyed a Disney (not counting Pixar) animated movie since BEFORE The Little Mermaid. Judging from the trailer, it's got a real The Rescuers vibe to it.
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...is that the same alligator from Peter Pan?
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May 12, 2009 11:11:44 AM CDT
"Holiday 2009" seems rather awkwardly worded...
by fa_tass_dinomolester
But I'm looking forward to this. Actually, I'm not excited about the content so much as the return of traditional animation to the big screen.
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Disney isn't stupid. They know how to make more money, and right now, that's to give black people (not just African-Americans but in a more global sense) a princess. Disney knows there money is in the princess line. Don't believe me, go to the Bippity Boppity Boutique in Orlando. Huge Cash Cow.
So instead of making an animated "black" Cinderella, or "black" sleeping beauty, they are choosing to give an original princess story, they way the did for Jasmine and Mulan. They know this will make them A LOT of cash, so how is that stupid. Is it ironic that the 2D movie to be considered the biggest financial success was an African themed Lion King? -
Because they turn the first black Disney Princess into a frog for most of the movie? Or because at least one of the characters, if not most, will spend the entirety of their screen-time shucking and jiving like Uncle Remus and the Brer animals?
Some of it looks absolutely stunning - for instance, the glimpses you get here of the scenery and backgrounds. Some of it looks kind of generic - I always expected the frog in an animated version of this fairytale to look really gross, not cuddly. It's a mix, so far, of "classic" Disney (not "Bambi" classic - "Aladdin" classic) and "trying way too hard."
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What's next a black President? Oh wait... I'm sorry but Pixar has owned all other animated flicks and I really don't expect this to be anything special.
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Hahaha. Just kidding.
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Old story, talking animals, how...UNLIKE?!?!?! them??!?!? This looks better than anything they have done in a while. Every movie they do doesn't have to be a "creative tour de force", sometimes you can just tell a good story with compelling characters and end up with a good movie eh?? How many times can you break the bar like Fantasia did anyway?? That's probably why the film was so special, because there hasn't been much like it in 70 years. Every Pixar film hasn't been "ALL THAT" either, (finding nemo, cough) so I'm not really sure why the need to compare everything to that studio. It isn't PIXAR, and not everything has to be different like Pixar, otherwise EVERYTHING would be Pixar and it wouldn't be so special. Weird huh?!?!
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Just because I want 2-D animation to live on, and it would seem wrong if Disney permanently left that game. That said...for some reason, I have a bad feeling about this. I loved Lilo & Stitch, but it didn't hold a candle to the Little Mermaid/Beauty & The Beast/Aladdin/Lion King run. And the less said about the ones that came after it, the better. This teaser looks ok so far, so while I just can't get excited about it yet, I'm still hoping for the best on this one.
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...this looks horrific.
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In light of its target audience, shouldn't it read, "Quanza 2009," instead of, "Holiday 2009?"
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I have to disagree. I am a huge huge PIXAR fan, probably more than helthily so. And I think that WALL-E and FINDING NEMO are the undisputed high watermarks for a nearflawless filmography. Andrew Stanton is a GOD (of storytelling and visuals) to me.
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they already removed ALOT. it was waaaaay worse than what it is now. but whats annoying so far are two things. the crackhead firefly. really? he has to look exactly like a crackhead? and the skin tone of the prince. really? he couldnt actually be BLACK? he has to be spanish or moroccan or some shit? why is he so got damn light skinned? Its like in any big bugdget movie with black characters are the focus they cant be happy black people looking for love, its gotta always be interracial.
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are exactly whats wrong with you fat ugly racist womanless gay ass motherfuckas. kwanza? really? i dont even know anyone black who celebrates it, let alone u having to remark on it that way. you whiny fucks. God forbid ONE movie isnt about white men and you faggots get your panties ina bunch. i fucking hate all of you.
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And what exactly were these supposed racist subplots that were removed? Y'know, I have a hard time believing that people like Oprah Winfrey, Keith David and Terrence Howard would sign on to a project that they deemed to be detrimental to the image of African Americans. And no, it's not the paycheck as voice over work for Disney is typically at scale- not a lot of money in Hollywood terms. And I find it amusing that you are going on and on about the plight of blacks in a damn cartoon, while spewing "faggots" and "gay ass motherfuckas" all over the place. Get over yourself, and then get bent.
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