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is it a law?
by Bouncy X
Mar 15th, 2009
07:44:32 PM
that all disney princess post Ariel must look identical?
SECOND?
by sanzaru
Mar 15th, 2009
07:49:37 PM
seconded. must be a law.
Hope this is a return to form
by yippeekaiyaymofo
Mar 15th, 2009
07:53:30 PM
Disney's fare has gotten weaker lately but everything about this one seems to b eok so far
starring Evil Bob Fosse as...
by Stryder
Mar 15th, 2009
07:54:03 PM
I assume Facilier wants to use the Frog in some voodoo spell to cure his crippling scoliosis. Then he'll have some musical number about how bent he is.
BTW, Home On The Rage?
by Stryder
Mar 15th, 2009
07:55:25 PM
Wasn't that a Peckinpah film?
This looks like
by Series7
Mar 15th, 2009
07:56:03 PM
All dogs go to Heaven for some reason?
Finally some real fucking art. Fuck Computer Animation.
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Mar 15th, 2009
07:58:41 PM
Odie?
by BeeDub
Mar 15th, 2009
07:59:02 PM
Like the dog from Garfield? I'm glad they're getting back to hand-drawn animation - I've missed it.
I can't wait
by red_weed
Mar 15th, 2009
08:05:07 PM
2d animation! on the big screen again! finally. But i think we are all trying to avoid the REAL news here. That's right. The g-force trailer is up on apple...
Randy Newman? Nooo, really?
by YotzVonFrelnik
Mar 15th, 2009
08:13:58 PM
Hasn't he scored three out of every four animated features in the last fifteen years?
The Princess & the Analogs
by sanzaru
Mar 15th, 2009
08:52:15 PM
So "Tiana" is the new Ariel...and "Ray" is the new Sebastian the Crab? Does that make Mama Odie the new "Ursula"?? Just guessing here. Even though the 2-D approach is a welcome throwback, you think they'd try and be just a little more daring with their model sheets! Same thing with Mr. Newman on the music. (*soberly reflects to self*) ...Ah, well. Kids'll love it anyway.
Whitey McWhite
by Traveler 27
Mar 15th, 2009
08:58:16 PM
Traditional animation? check! looks good. New Setting, ethnic variety, New Orleans? check! looks good! Girl can be of any race (asian, black, American Indian, etc) as long as Male Romantic Lead is the whitest frat boy dickhead you can find? Check and check! When a non-white male kisses a white female in a Disney cartoon, I'll say we've turned a corner. But you know it's only business. Who's gonna buy that? Riiiiight... It's not a slight to white folks, at all. It's just something to think about. Not even the Fresh Prince or Denzel kiss white women on screen. I'm just sayin'. You know it's true. I could be wrong, though. Am I?
Will Be Considered Racist No Matter the Content
by ThusSpakeSpymunk
Mar 15th, 2009
09:01:42 PM
Disney has bent over backward trying to accomodate anti-defamation squadrons on this movie, and the result will be that for all their effort Disney wil still get slapped with rants that this is racist when it gets made. The only way to make sure it's NOT considered racist? Make sure the non-white characters are shown in ALL circumstances being SUPERIOR - note I'm not saying "equal" - to all white characters, denigrating them constantly - while at the same time following ugly reverse racism stereotyping. And before you say anything, I'm Native American by blood.
Obviously, Tiana didn't learn anything from the Michael Jackson
by Alfie Boy
Mar 15th, 2009
09:02:38 PM
Obviously, Tiana didn't learn anything from the Michael Jackson
by Alfie Boy
Mar 15th, 2009
09:03:40 PM
hanging the baby over the balcony screw-up, now did she?
Traveler
by ShiftyEyedDog2
Mar 15th, 2009
09:05:47 PM
Hancock, for one. Smith kisses Theron - hell, they were married even.
The Croc looks good
by phaedrus007
Mar 15th, 2009
09:12:08 PM
It has that old school Disney anthropomorphic-but-still-anim alistic look... like the Jungle Book characters. The rest look fairly generic... no matter what colors they filled in the lines with.
Good to see hand drawn back
by hallmitchell
Mar 15th, 2009
09:33:11 PM
I want more!
I stand corrected
by Traveler 27
Mar 15th, 2009
09:34:33 PM
Hancock. Yes. I loved it, even. Now, how about an animated feature? BTW, look at that guy's face. Smug, arrogant, lounge lizard? Come on, you know it's true.
I think it looks pretty awesome to me
by The Amazing G
Mar 15th, 2009
09:41:10 PM
Ugg...
by earthlingdave
Mar 15th, 2009
09:47:39 PM
Hand-drawn art, yes, but not good hand-drawn art. Terrible character designs.
Traveler
by ShiftyEyedDog2
Mar 15th, 2009
09:56:36 PM
does it have to be African American specifically? or just inter-racial? Atlantis and Road to El Dorado come to mind
Black people are the craze these days
by JasonGrey
Mar 15th, 2009
10:08:57 PM
Anybody notice it? Looks alright... I like the new orleans setting and I'm anxious to see disney's return to 2d animation but I must admit the art is pretty bland and generic.
Disney should really just hang up the towel
by mmaddox3
Mar 15th, 2009
10:19:23 PM
and let Pixar make the toons. I was excited about the prospect of Disney getting back to what really made them, 2d animation. But that excitement is GONE after watching that shit teaser and seeing those shit designs, that prince looks like a Saturday morning rehash.
nah, not african american specifically...
by Traveler 27
Mar 15th, 2009
10:24:20 PM
the challenge is non-white male, white female animated movie, romantically involved, human, non mutant/other. just so you all know, i love all this stuff, don't get me wrong. i'm just sayin'. so if i'm wrong, learn me somethin'! and, come on, that prince guy should be winking and pointing his finger at you, sayin' "heyyy...how YOU doin'?"
Pretty sure Naveen is East Indian...
by IHateYouAllSoSoMuch
Mar 15th, 2009
10:30:35 PM
his name is Naveen. Balls in your court, AICN chapter of the NAACP.
Home on the Range
by Saaxton
Mar 15th, 2009
10:33:00 PM
It's sad that they even mentioned this being the most recent 2-D animated film from Disney. That was the most boring, uninspired piece of crud I've ever seen. I own all the Disney animated movies and have watched them multiple times. HotR? I barely made it through the first viewing.
Every Disney princess since Ariel looks like her?
by Nasty In The Pasty
Mar 15th, 2009
10:41:49 PM
Maybe Belle, but Jasmine, Pocahontas, Esmeralda, Megara, Mulan...?
Princess and the Frog to be retitled BIRTH OF A NATION PART 2: D
by Willie_Watkins
Mar 15th, 2009
10:52:33 PM
gonna be great

by MikeTheSpike
Mar 15th, 2009
11:22:49 PM
Ugh, the quality here is awful. Maybe this will encourage Disney to release some decent promo shots for a film even hardened AICN talkbackers seem somewhat enthusiastic for.
Was just watching Pinocchio today...
by sapno_krei
Mar 15th, 2009
11:31:09 PM
...and I'm amazed by the painterly quality of the art on that 70-year-old film. I don't think any DIsney film since has approached that level of detail. I'm crossing my fingers that RAPUNZEL will break new ground in the area of painterly CG.
Princess of what?
by Ogre
Mar 15th, 2009
11:35:13 PM
If this takes place in New Orleans... what is she princess of, Mardi Gras?
I'm guessing she's wearing a costume for Mardi Gras
by TheGhostWhoLurks
Mar 16th, 2009
12:21:16 AM
Maybe the frog helps her out when the levees break again. And yeah... having a white prince and a black princess in a Disney cartoon set in "the real world" — and in the SOUTH, no less — is just asking for criticism.
It will be a flop in boxoffice
by ominus
Mar 16th, 2009
12:22:16 AM
regardless how good the film will be.the people nowadays think that the traditional animation is something of the old,of the past generation,something not as cool as the cgi.

and personally i hate seeing how traditional animational has been forgotten or ignored by the audience.damn evolution.

Looks terrible
by Buzz_Aldrin
Mar 16th, 2009
12:23:11 AM
Seriously, wasn't this cookie cutter design / same old fucking princess plotlines the reason nobody wants to see Disney animation anymore?
Brought to you by the folks...
by TheGhostWhoLurks
Mar 16th, 2009
12:23:22 AM
Who refuse to release Song of the South on DVD, because "The Powers That Be" now consider the film racist.
I really want to see this...
by viola123
Mar 16th, 2009
12:34:06 AM
It's been too long since Disney gave us a hand-drawn film. I remember when they had one every year, and yes, they needed to take a step away from it... for a while. But I think enough time has passed and just watching the teaser, there's something different about it. A charm that's really old school. I'm not sure how well it'll do at the box office. But, I hope that it'll be awesome, regardless of what the numbers say. ... I do think the music is going to be fabulous though. Right? I mean, so long as the horns don't take over!
2D, 3D, or 4D it won't matter...
by richy
Mar 16th, 2009
01:18:21 AM
...until they learn how to write a friggin script. All these formula cartoons are stale and getting staler. I can't believe they're still making this stuff. Like today's best music, the independent animation scene's where all the action is. While the big studios tread water, Don Hertzfeldt's latest films will quietly change your friggin life.
Stryder's Peckinpah joke...
by Proman1984
Mar 16th, 2009
01:47:21 AM
Was funny!
It exists solely to add another marketable
by Dingbatty
Mar 16th, 2009
04:03:29 AM
princess character to their list.
This looks like tired, boring shit
by Player 1
Mar 16th, 2009
04:14:07 AM
Seriously Disney, pull your head out of your ass. Setting a european fairy-tale in New Orleans or whatever...? Why not try some new ideas, like Pixar did. Oh, wait...
It's going to....
by Dead_Geek
Mar 16th, 2009
05:20:00 AM
...Crash and Burn! Hahahaha!
Naveen Andrews should play the prince
by estacado1
Mar 16th, 2009
06:43:01 AM
"How about a nice fur man shake?"
by idonotseekabanning
Mar 16th, 2009
09:22:35 AM
That may be my new favorite trailer line.
About Louie the alligator...
by Subtlety
Mar 16th, 2009
11:20:43 AM
Um, seen All Dogs Go to Heaven much? Geez. Otherwise, I like the design of the ringmaster (?) but everything else looks pretty bland. Hopefully they'll have more fun with the sets than with the character designs. New Orleans with an African-American "princess" (?) could be pretty cool but I'm sure they'll cracker it up good, just to make sure they get nothing genuinely interesting from either aspect. Oh well.
seems very VERY safe. too bad
by BMacSmith
Mar 16th, 2009
04:45:41 PM
i was hoping that maybe they would try to reinvent 2d animation, not just rehash post Mermaid Disney. looks generic, and probably politically correct.
Lilo and Stitch
by Outlaw
Mar 17th, 2009
12:20:37 AM
Was the last great traditional animated movie.
The Powerpuff Girls Movie
by Dingbatty
Mar 17th, 2009
04:25:51 PM
was better than Lilo and Stitch.
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