Shadow of the Thin Man
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
directed by Ron Clements and Jon Musker
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on DVD at Stealth's
Count me surprised that Disney hired professional voice actors instead of celebrities to give life to a New Orleans of fairy tale Southern pastels. Not only that, but a character dies - brutally - and the heroine's dreams come true not because the man she marries is a prince, but because he loves her and is willing to work hard on behalf of her ambitions. Of all the movies I watched and video games I played this weekend, The Princess and the Frog looked best on Steve's enormous television, because the swamps and graveyards of the animators' imaginations were the closest a conglomerate-controlled multitude of contributors and creators came to an immersive environment of their own.
Facilier's dreamworld was even scary, in a haunting-kids'-nightmares sort of way; shadows with a life of their own always are. Last summer, I expected Ponyo to be the great animated movie of 2009 but found it obtuse and "too Japanese." Whoever it is that can still paint at Disney deserves Randy Newman's salary and a string of contracts to match the dollar bills.
directed by Ron Clements and Jon Musker
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on DVD at Stealth's
Count me surprised that Disney hired professional voice actors instead of celebrities to give life to a New Orleans of fairy tale Southern pastels. Not only that, but a character dies - brutally - and the heroine's dreams come true not because the man she marries is a prince, but because he loves her and is willing to work hard on behalf of her ambitions. Of all the movies I watched and video games I played this weekend, The Princess and the Frog looked best on Steve's enormous television, because the swamps and graveyards of the animators' imaginations were the closest a conglomerate-controlled multitude of contributors and creators came to an immersive environment of their own.
Facilier's dreamworld was even scary, in a haunting-kids'-nightmares sort of way; shadows with a life of their own always are. Last summer, I expected Ponyo to be the great animated movie of 2009 but found it obtuse and "too Japanese." Whoever it is that can still paint at Disney deserves Randy Newman's salary and a string of contracts to match the dollar bills.
posted by NPK at 6:18 AM
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