The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Directors:

Ron Clements
John Musker

Writers:

Ron Clements (screenplay) &
John Musker (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

11 December 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance

Plot:

A fairy tale set in Jazz Age-era New Orleans and centered on a young girl named Princess Tiana and her fateful kiss with a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again.

Plot Keywords:

New Orleans | Based On Story | Bayou | Cajun | Beautiful Woman

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 17 nominations

US Showtimes:

The Bridge: Cinema de lux

11:45am | 2:10pm | 4:35 | 7:00 | 9:25 | 11:45

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Anika Noni Rose	...	Tiana (voice)
Bruno Campos	...	Prince Naveen (voice)
Keith David	...	Dr. Facilier (voice)
Michael-Leon Wooley	...	Louis (voice)
Jennifer Cody	...	Charlotte (voice)
Jim Cummings	...	Ray (voice)
Peter Bartlett	...	Lawrence (voice)
Jenifer Lewis	...	Mama Odie (voice)
Oprah Winfrey	...	Eudora (voice)
Terrence Howard	...	James (voice)
John Goodman	...	'Big Daddy' La Bouff (voice)
Elizabeth M. Dampier	...	Young Tiana (voice)
Breanna Brooks	...	Young Charlotte (voice)
Ritchie Montgomery	...	Reggie (voice)
Don Hall	...	Darnell (voice)

Also Known As:

The Frog Princess (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:G (certificate #45696) | UK:U | South Korea:All | Singapore:PG | Ireland:G | New Zealand:G | Australia:G | Finland:K-7 | Japan:G | Canada:G (all jurisdictions) | Argentina:Atp | Peru:PT | Denmark:7

Company:

Walt Disney Animation Studios

Trivia:

New Orleans celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse - who is famous for his Cajun and Creole cuisine -- plays the voice of Marlon, one of the alligators who tries to eat Naveen and Tiana in the swamp. (Marlon is, of course, named after Marlon Brando, star of the New Orleans drama A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).)

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the movie, Tiana congratulates Big Daddy on being the King of Mardi Gras, and he says that it's the fifth year in a row. For New Orleans Carnival parades and balls, the identity of the King is almost always kept a secret, and one cannot be the king more than one time.

Quotes:

[from trailer]
Mama Odie: This gonna be good!
[laughs]

Movie Connections:

References Aladdin (1992)

Soundtrack:

Never Knew I Needed

A Disney comeback for sure!!

Wow. That's one word to sum up everything about this movie: Wow.

Since Emperor's New Groove, Disney slowly went downhill until it was nothing but low-quality crappy sequels and badly made CGI movies, not to mention nothing but teenybopper shows on the Disney Channel. As for Toon Disney, I think the people working there confused themselves with Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon; something that is not their style.

However, Michael Eisner got fired and Robert Iger took his place as CEO of the Disney company, promising to get Disney back to the way it was supposed to be. Since then, I noticed improvements with movies like Enchanted and Bolt, but not to the point where everything was good again all of a sudden. I guess Eisner had some projects already set in motion that couldn't be stopped. But that was all right, because movies were the most important, and they would eventually get everything right.

With The Princess in the Frog, what a movie to start another era out of the second Dark Age! This movie has EVERYTHING: great story, superb animation, great humor, excellent acting and singing, thought-provoking lessons to learn throughout the movie, the list goes on and on. I think it truly deserves its place as a true Disney classic. To top it all off, the newest Disney Princess, Tiana, has spunk, intelligence, and determinations. She is a great example for kids to look up to. She just needs to learn to relax once in a while, which Naveen teaches her. In return she teaches him that life isn't all parties and women.

Movies like this make me realize that I can't wait for Disney to come out with greater stuff in the future, like Rapunzel in 2010. I am really curious for the stuff they will do in the future. They have already done so much, but there's so much out there that they haven't done yet. It's also interesting to see them write original movies like they did with Lady and the Tramp, Enchanted, and Bolt. This movie definitely deserves a 10; it was that good. I totally recommend it for anyone.