The Princess and the Frog

The trailer for The Princess and the Frog starts off by bragging about how this movie will be in the tradition of Disney classics, but as far as I can see the only similarity is in the animation. For starters, the Disney classics were never released in 3-D. Also, those movies were horribly racist, so one can only hope that Disney has finally undergone some kind of sensitivity training before making a black princess. It seems like the race thing isn't done perfectly (the group of dancing sambos), but hopefully this doesn't affect kids prejudices. As far as the interracial relationship goes...why would anyone ever bring that up and complain about it? That's a whole different story though.

The actual movie looks really good. They adapt a fairy tale classic and make it fun and enjoyable for a broad audience. In that way, they are sticking to tradition and I expect this movie will be thoroughly enjoyed by a large number of people.