Product Description
Disney celebrates a modern-day classic from the directors of The Little Mermaid and Aladdin. Discover what really happened after the princess kissed the frog in an inspired twist on the world's most famous kiss. This hilarious adventure leaps off the screen with stunning animation, irresistible music and an unforgettable cast of characters. Enter Princess Tiana's world of talking frogs, singing alligators and lovesick fireflies as she embarks on an incredible journey through the mystical bayous of Louisiana. Spurred on by a little bit of courage and a great big dream, these new friends come to realize what's truly important in life...love, family and friendship. Overflowing with humor and heart, The Princess and the Frog is an incredible motion picture experience your whole family will want to enjoy again and again!
Bonus Content Includes: Deleted Scenes, The Princess Portraits Game, Audio Commentary By Filmmakers, Music Video By Ne-Yo
Product Details
- #223 in DVD
- Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
- Released on: 2010-03-16
- Rating: G (General Audience)
- Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Formats: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Original language:
English, Spanish
- Subtitled in:
English, Spanish
- Dubbed in:
Spanish
- Dimensions: .25 pounds
- Running time: 98 minutes
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
After the visual bombast of many contemporary CG and motion-capture features, the drawn characters in The Princess and the Frog, the Walt Disney Studio's eagerly awaited return to traditional animation, feel doubly welcome. Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin), The Princess and the Frog moves the classic fairy tale to a snazzy version of 1920s New Orleans. Tiana (voice by Anika Noni Rose), the first African-American Disney heroine, is not a princess, but a young woman who hopes to fulfill her father's dream of opening a restaurant to serve food that will bring together people from all walks of life. Tiana may wish upon a star, but she believes that hard work is the way to fulfill your aspirations. Her dedication clashes with the cheerful idleness of the visiting prince Naveen (Bruno Campos). A voodoo spell cast by Dr. Facilier (Keith David) in a showstopping number by composer Randy Newman initiates the events that will bring the mismatched hero and heroine together. However, the animation of three supporting characters--Louis (Michael-Leon Wooley), a jazz-playing alligator; Ray (Jim Cummings), a Cajun firefly; and 197-year-old voodoo priestess Mama Odie (Jenifer Lewis)--is so outstanding, it nearly steals the film. Alternately funny, touching, and dramatic, The Princess and the Frog is an all-too-rare example of a holiday entertainment a family can enjoy together, with the most and least sophisticated members appreciating different elements. The film is also a welcome sign that the beleaguered Disney Feature Animation Studio has turned away from such disasters as Home on the Range, Chicken Little, and Meet the Robinsons and is once again moving in the right direction. Rated G: General Audiences, suitable for ages 6 and older: violence, some scary imagery, tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
Stills from Princess and the Frog (Click for larger image)
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Love this
Love this DVD! Disney did a great job on this one. The culture and music is classic
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Why the Princess and the Frog is great
In the World, its been 70 years in the making. In my world, its been 34.
I have heard all of the criticism: prince Naveen is too light skinned (what a light skinned man can love a Black woman?), that it shouldn't have been set in New Orleans (that person is an idiot) and should not have had voodoo (uh hello, have you ever been there?!)
As a Black (well, biracial) woman whose adored father died before he could see her transition to greatness, this film delivers.
Disney has the grace to go old school with gorgeous hand drawn sets that made me smile huge. When they get on the street car, I got excited. When they drove past mansions, I thought, "hey, I've been there!" and when they showed a loving family sharing dinner with their neighbors, it gave me a warm glow.
One of the messages of the movie is clear: sometimes what we want and what we need are different. Oh and sadly, sometimes hard work is not enough. The former is a lesson I know well. The latter, I'm still working on.
The vivid, vibrant colors, the voice of Anika Noni Rose and the characters Tiana encounters are fun and just what you would expect from a Disney feature. The Shadow Man, played with style by Keith David, is a tip of the hat to that Voodoo Trickster god Papa Legba (and if I was you, I'd stop talking smack.)
Personally, I loved it. The vibrancy and spirit of this film fits not only one of my favorite places on Earth, but works with 1920's vivid cultural panarama. One of the characters I truly loved is Lotte: say what you will, but I promise you, I know many a Southern girl just like her. Funny, vivicious and spoiled rotten! I thought Lotte was pure fun.
At the very end, Tiana sings the final line of the movie "Dreams come true in New Orleans" and my heart simply welled up and overflowed: because dreams do come true in New Orleans and that is why the movie was set there.
Focusing on it being the site of a terrible tragedy and overlooking its rich and magnificent history is a travesty.
Don't focus on how long it took to get a Black princess or any of the silly, trivial little things that people jumped on (really? the prince is too light skinned? *rolls eyes*)
Instead, celebrate a return to real classic animation, to a beautiful new young princess and her prince finding true love. To New Orleans being featured in all her glory, proving that Nola is alive and well. Celebrate the magical, musical, colorful, delight that is the Princess and the Frog.
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Cajun Fun
My boys ages 21 months, 4.5, & 6.5 really enjoyed this disney film. It is very colorful w/ beautiful animation set in New Orleans. Lots of songs throughout to keep the little ones interested. Good story and happy ending as well. About an hour and 40 minutes long. I'd recommend it, may purchase if price falls. Wide-screen image (1.78:1) fills the whole TV screen !
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A frog!
CG Animation is a beautiful thing - it's given animation permission to explore themes that it couldn't before, like non-musical stories. Disney Traditional still hasn't gotten that in their thick skulls, and this movie makes many of same mistakes they were making post-Lion King (a politically correct voodoo priestess?! C'mon!).
But the movie is no less enjoyable; a great tale about balancing ambitions with character. It contains characters with strong dreams to risk, in addition to a villian worthy of fear (Parents, it may be rated G, but there are some shocking moments in the graveyard). As an aside, there are fantastic animation moments, worthy of the name Disney contained in 3 of the songs. During these sequences, you "leave" the story for a moment, enjoy it, and when you're back you'll say to yourself, "Oh yeah, we left off here".
While watching this movie, remind yourself that those lines you're seeing (which define the characters) are actually the artists'own marks (albeit the clean-up artist, but the movement is straight from the animator) - and that, my friends, is a privilege.
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excelente
me encanta esta pelicula... me parece muy hermosa y su musica tambien.. el dvd muy bueno. aunque le falto mas material extra para ver... o simplemente sacar una edicion especial dos disco para esta pelicula no hubiese sido mala idea
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dvd
This movie was cute and fun. It was well done. It was surprising how it all unfolded.
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Too Stereotypic
Why did a movie about a black princess have to be emeshed in a social and polictical framework? This movie attempted to capture black culture and failed miserably. This movie is not represenative of the black experience for most. Only people with roots in the creole culture might relate to this movie but that is only a fraction of the African American experience. What happened to the fantasy framework of all the other Disney princess movies? Film makers persist in portraying African Americans steeped in the stereotypes of the antebellum south. The very over played setting of The black servant's child playing with the rich white plantation owners daughter needs to be put to rest. The south, the massa/servant relationship, the dixieland music, the gumbo, the dialect, the voodoo, the caricatures, the prince, of course, couldn't be a black male to save the black princess and other stereotypes galore made for an incredibly disappointing cinema experience and disappointed with Disney --again. Blacks have progressed eons beyond the black slave/servant image ..just look around in the real world and step outside of racist stereotypics perceptions of black people in the USA . Stop tying and portraying African Americans to slavery and as servants, gangsters and criminals.
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Daughter loves this movie
One of my daughter's favorite movies and it is pretty entertaining for adults. Highly recommend.
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Great Purchase
I ordered this as a gift for my best friend, price was good, shipping time was perfect! Thank You!
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Oh, there's some sweetness goin' round; catch it down in New Orleans.
Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" isn't one of the absolute best films in Disney's 70-plus year legacy of animated movie-making, it does stand up as one of the better ones. I wouldn't put it in the same league as Beauty and the Beast, for example... I would probably put it roughly on par with (or just slightly below) Aladdin. But regardless of how good the movie is (and it is good), it is an important film for both Disney and fans of animation alike.
When it was revealed that Home on the Range would be Disney's last hand-drawn flick due to the increasing popularity of CG movies (and thus, the decreasing popularity of 2D), many fans of the Disney classics, including myself, were more than a little disappointed, to say the least. Disney had built their legacy by making fairy tale masterpieces of traditional hand-drawn animation, and Home on the Range hardly qualified as "masterpiece" material. It was quite a downer to see that legacy end on such a decidedly average note - it just felt incomplete.
After five long years and three non-Pixar CG films that failed to set the world ablaze (Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, and Bolt), Disney has gone back to their roots and realized what made them great in the first place. And right from the get go, there is an air of distinction about the movie: For starters, it's set in New Orleans in the 1920s, hardly the sort of European setting one would expect from a fairy tale. Oh, and Disney finally has their first black princess. Yes, after decades of Caucasian princesses, then dabbling a bit with other cultures (Native Americans with Pocahontas, Asians in Mulan, and even the Hawaiian culture in Lilo & Stitch), Disney has crafted a hard-working all-American woman for their newest princess - and a woman of color at that. Sometimes culture integration like this can feel forced or pandering (the latter comes to mind in the case of Pocahontas), but the story in The Princess and the Frog is written for the characters rather than the other way around.
The previews for the movie set the stage pretty well - everyone knows how the fairy tale story of The Princess and the Frog ends - she kisses the frog and he becomes human. Disney sets up the premise in this movie so that when our heroine kisses the frog, she turns into a frog herself, and the bulk of the movie features the two of them learning to work together to find their way back to being human.
The villain in the film that sets the whole thing in motion is a voodoo doctor named Facilier, often referred to as "the shadow man" for his association with the dark arts. Of course, the voodoo magic performed in The Princess and the Frog has practically no relation to actual voodoo practices, but it's a novel attempt to try and make a villain with unearthly powers that also fits the New Orleans setting. And when he gets his comeuppance at the end of the film (as pretty much all Disney villains do), it's quite possibly the most satisfying dispatch Disney has come up with to date.
Naturally, there are some elements that have been "Disneyed up" to make the movie more palatable to the family audience - racism is only touched on ever so lightly and only in the briefest of moments, and it would have been VERY prevalent in the 1920's, particularly in the south. There isn't even the slightest bit of outrage by anyone in the movie at the concept of the rich white daughter of the cotton baron potentially marrying a dark-skinned prince. Of course, the movie is a somewhat modernized re-telling of a fairy tale, and thus is not meant to be a wholly accurate portrayal of America's history, so it really doesn't negatively impact the movie. It just takes a wee bit more suspension of disbelief from those of us who are familiar with America's past (and, unfortunately, the present) than it would for a child. At the other end of the spectrum, however, Disney has no problem making jabs at the stupid, bumbling "rednecks" in the film.
Really, if there's anything that disappoints about the movie, it's the pacing. It moves a little too quickly from one perilous situation to the next - our heroes get out of the proverbial frying pan and into the fire in such rapid sequence, there's sometimes too little down time between the action scenes.
In the times Disney does break up the action, it often does so by returning to another hallmark of the great Disney classics - high-energy musical numbers. The music this time around is a eclectic mix of Jazz, Gospel, Cajun and other southern styles. The music and lyrics are written by Randy Newman, and they have his trademark style, for better or worse. I'm not a big fan of his music, but I have to admit his style of composition is a perfect fit for the film, and so I was able to enjoy it (also because although he wrote the music, he doesn't sing it). Some of the songs are much weaker than others and seem more like filler ("When We're Human" comes to mind), but most of them are quite well-written and completely appropriate for the movie.
The Princess and the Frog is a strong addition to the Disney lineup, and whether you're a die-hard Disney collector, a fan of animation in general, or just want to have a good time watching a movie, I would pretty much be able to recommend this movie to just about anybody.
I purchased the Blu-ray + DVD combo pack of the movie. Disney has been releasing it's Blu-ray movies this way for a while now, and I personally think it's a fantastic idea. People with Blu-ray players may wonder why they would need or even want a DVD included, but there are some valid reasons: First and foremost, portable DVD players are fairly inexpensive nowadays, so having a Blu-ray disc for the home theater and a DVD for the kids to watch in the car might be a pretty solid deal for parents. Likewise, if you have a Blu-ray player, but maybe your friends don't, you'd still be able to loan them the DVD copy if they want to watch the movie. Secondly, if you don't yet HAVE a Blu-ray player, but you are considering getting one, you may want to pick up the combo pack because you'll be able to watch the DVD now, and then when you get the Blu-ray player, you'll already have the disc to watch it in high definition - you won't have to "re-buy" or "double-dip" or whatever the kids are calling it these days. And of course, it is also available as a single-disc Blu-ray as well, if you don't want to spend the extra few dollars to get the Blu-ray + DVD bundle.
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