Last week i saw this movie. It may seem a childish thing to do, watching a princess disney movie, but i couldn't help myself, i grew up loving all the disney princess and i wasn't going to let this one pass me by no matter how late it is. It was in fact the first black princess in all Disney history. no, Pocahontas didn't count. this princess is bonafied Black.
The movie was cute and had its hilarious moments as suspected from a Disney movie. it also included musical renditions from the characters that i recall seeing in past princess movies. the music and singing brought a small of remembrance from my childhood back to light. The princely character was a bit perplexing for me though. i was wondering the whole time what this prince could be prince of, cuz well.....he's BLACK and i know he wasn't African. Although charming, the prince was a lazy good for nothing that mooched off his parents and had his money taken away from the thrown. His frog princess though was the most hard working young lady in the bayou who was aspiring to make a wonderful palace like eatery through her cooking talents learned from her father as a child. The rich princess like character who looks for fairytale love all her life is one of young Tiana's (princess/main character) childhood friends who gets just about everything she wants from her fat daddy who becomes the king of mardi gras.
i felt there were some quirks about this movie though. The Shadow man as he was referred to was a voodoo master who turned the prince into a frog and his servant into the prince in order to marry Tiana's rich friend to gain all her money. the story line seems good enough but the elements of voodoo were troublesome for me and a bit spooky. i found it odd that disney would put such vulgar forms of demonism and over all foolishness into a childs movie. also, this movie was the first disney movie where a character died. that was odd in itself, but at the end, while i was SO sure somehow he was going to live because this was a DISNEY MOVIE, it showed the character ending up as a star in the night sky while everyone rejoiced. personally, i think that these ending were minutley biased towards what the others believe happens to the dead.
in it all, the movie was worth seeing and should be deemed equal to the rest of Disney's classic movies and hope maybe one day will end up in my own Disney classic vault.
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