Oct 6 2009First Five Minutes of 'Princess and the Frog': It's No 'Circle of Life'
Remember how, in The Lion King, Disney kicked open your skull doors and gave your brain a charliehorse right from the start with "Circle of Life"? Such powerful music! So much reverent African wildlife!
Well, the opening to Disney's The Princess and the Frog is nothing like that:
After the girl successfully makes the gumbo, she should clearly be hoisted into the sky by a mandrill.
(via ComingSoon)
Reader Comments
1. Poppa Smurf - October 6, 2009 12:49 PM
Ill bone that frog!!! PUK PUK PUK
2. glace neuf - October 6, 2009 1:28 PM
black and white/storyboard shots were freaking me out!
3. jojo - October 6, 2009 1:49 PM
That guy looks just like john Goodman, or whoever that guy from Rosanne was.
Please don't let this show bomb! This could be the great comeback disney was expecting for the drawn era. Remember how good they were back then with lion king, the little mermaid, alladin? This film need to be a success!
4. flavaflav - October 6, 2009 2:00 PM
That doesn't look very appealing at all compared with the 2D movies from the 90's… the sad thing is… when this movie fails they'll blame it on traditional animation instead of a crap story.
5. Patty - October 6, 2009 3:11 PM
It is John Goodman! I'm happy to see Disney give traditional animation another shot.
6. mattk - October 6, 2009 4:18 PM
#3's tenuous grasp of the English language is phunny.
7. Bobeyo - October 6, 2009 4:31 PM
#4: Dead on, my friend. Dead on. And it's terribly sad.
There was nothing to this clip. No kick. No pizzaz. No drama. No comedy. No action. No villains. Nothing interesting in the slightest. It's not only not as good as Lion King, but it pales in comparison to other Disney openings like the "Arabian Nights" song in Aladdin, the storybook prologue in Beauty and the Beast, the... well, you get the idea.
8. Mr.Misanthrope - October 7, 2009 11:08 AM
It only makes sense they'd have a "black princess" movie to fill in the rainbow coalition of princesses, and appease those preoccupied by it, but why couldn't they have used an actual story about a black princess instead of "re-imagining" The Frog Prince? I'm sure there are some African stories that involve tribal princesses, or some story by an African-American with a prominent princess involved, why re-make something completely unrelated? That nearly always comes out awful.Disney (at least used to) excel at bringing stories to life.
I'm withholding judgment on the film until I've actually seen it. The plot seems extremely weak, but the animation looks outstanding. The only other gripe I have is that the character was originally supposed to be a chambermaid, but this was changed because people felt a black maid was racist. Last I checked, wasn't Cinderella a maid? Wasn't that kind of a defining, and positive trait?
9. Laura - October 8, 2009 1:42 AM
Oh I'm sorry - when did we go back into the 1960s? This is incredibly offensive and I'm hoping that we'll have another banned Disney films on our hands. It's just a shame that it has to be the first 2-D animation in years...
10. shai - October 16, 2009 1:09 AM
i'm scared of being dissapointedby this but so far it looks okay! Alot better than my worst fears. Im only concerned it might be dull. but so long as it isnt i shallbe pleased