Beautiful poster for Princess and the Frog

[tazber]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 3:08pm

hot on the heels of the trailer (which although gorgeous to watch, left me uninspired) comes the stunning theatrical poster.
Enjoy!

[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 3:12pm

It's striking, but it may give off the wrong impression that it's another Disney/Pixar collaboration. It looks 3D-ish.


ETA: Oh, and I still hate the title!

Updated On: 5/11/09 at 03:12 PM

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 4:19pm

And then there's still the whole Randy Newman thing... sigh...

[romantico]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 4:21pm

Disney is getting back to all the soft images they use to do for their posters in the 90's and I love it.

Updated On: 5/11/09 at 04:21 PM

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 4:32pm

I'm looking forward to this one and the next one:

Updated On: 5/11/09 at 04:32 PM

[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 4:33pm

I wouldn't call the PatF poster a "soft image."

Hear, hear, Actr! I was disappointed when Menken dropped out and Newman stepped in. I think everything he does sounds the same, and I'm not a fan of his "jumpy" style.

Randy Newman a la FAMILY GUY

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 5:11pm

I LOVE the Family Guy parody. And heck YES to Menken's "Rapunzel" starring La Chenoweth!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 6:21pm

Very pretty and I love the idea of the New Orleans setting. I just wonder what sort of racist backlash we're going to endure this time around.

[pli1018]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 8:01pm

Wow, this looks better and better with every new image released.

Add me to the list of those looking forward to Rapunzel with Chenoweth, though I do wish it were 2D animated.

[tazber]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 8:07pm

The racist backlash already started MM. They had to change a character's speech pattern b/c it was causing issues.

[mariusmyhomeboy]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 8:20pm

Didn't they also change Princess Tiana's name? It was originally something else.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 8:30pm

She was originally named Maddy, but people protested that it sounded too much like a slave name. Also, she was to be a chambermaid, but there was an outcry over that, too. Meanwhile, according to the review link taz posted in the other thread, Tiana's rich white friend and her family are presented as "spoiled and stupid and Tiana's family is wise, loving and hard working."

[Plum]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 8:57pm

The art style looks distinctly Disney to me - I really doubt anyone's going to mistake that movie for a Pixar production just because the poster has some depth of field.

[jessica0414]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 9:35pm

I guess I sort of get why they changed her name, but seriously almost all the Disney Princesses seem to be chambermaids or otherwise socially or economically downtrodden...lol

[Plum]

Posted: 5/12/09 at 12:31am

Except for Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Sleeping Beauty, Ariel...

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/12/09 at 12:46am

People are also complaining that the prince isn't "black" enough.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/12/09 at 1:05am

Here's a link to back up my previous comment. To me it's much ado about nothing.

The prince is voiced by a white actor but I don't see a problem with that. Scott Weinger, who voiced Aladdin, isn't of Arabian descent and no one complained about him that I can recall.
Black Princess Kisses White Frog

Updated On: 5/12/09 at 01:05 AM

[Holliwoodblonde]

Posted: 5/12/09 at 1:26am

There will always be someone looking to complain about something, it's inevitable and besides, no matter what they do it'll never be offensive as Song of the South, right? :)

[Kasie]

Posted: 5/12/09 at 1:29am

I like the poster, but it kind of reminds me of Peter Pan... the alligator is almost identical and the guy resembles Captain Hook. I don't think the animation will be too much like Pixar, at least I hope not.

Either way, I'm excited to see it.

[wizard2joe]

Posted: 5/12/09 at 1:37am

Finally Disney makes a colr princess!!

Gosh, how long does it take for them to make a colored princess
it not like its a new invention there always been african americans in the world and now they thought of one.
LOL

I wonder Walt Disney was racist?

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/12/09 at 8:48am

"There will always be someone looking to complain about something."

There's never been a Disney princess with blue eyes and brown hair! Where's MY representation?

I think I've posted before that people used to get really angry at me when I worked for Disney because there was no black princess. As if I planned everything. I'm really happy that she's finally here.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/12/09 at 8:55am

Gosh, how long does it take for them to make a colored princess

"colored"? The Caucasian, Asian, Middle Eastern and Native American women lacked color?

I wonder Walt Disney was racist?

Or, you could think about it.

[Plum]

Posted: 5/13/09 at 5:14am

Disney has definitely had problems with its racial depictions both in the distant (Der Feurher's Face) and not-so-distant (Aladdin) past. At least with this movie they made time to assess their initial ideas and listened to people's objections.

That said, I don't really care when voice actors aren't the same race as the characters they're depicting. What counts in characterization is what you see and hear onscreen. I'm all for diversity in hiring, and I am troubled when white actors are asked to imitate the accents of non-white people, but a racial matching approach in voiceover work is just ludicrous.

So Mufasa can be James Earl Jones and Simba can be Jonathan Taylor Thomas and it's all good as far as I'm concerned. What's not good is protagonists Aladdin and Jasmine having paler skin and more American accents than villain Jafar and his cronies, who have Arab(ish) accents and features instead. I hope Disney's people watched themselves more closely this time around.

[BroadwayBenny]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 5:41pm

Well, technically Prince Naveen is Brazilian, as is the actor voicing the role, Bruno Campos, so he at least falls into the ethnic category of not being strictly "white"