The Princess and the Frog

[g0zen]

[Opaque]

I'm in.

[Dunlap]

Yes, it's a twist on the classic fairy tale. Something that is done very often, wrap yo head around it foo.

K, just checkin.

[Frogacuda]

I know Randy Newman will be a dealbreaker for some, but I can live with it.

wtf? Randy Newman is like one of the major reasons to be pumped for this. I've had more than enough of Alan Menkin's hokey broadway shit, and Randy Newman is like one of the best songwriters of the last 40 years. Some fucking respect, man.

The best part about Disney's greatest handrawn animated features was that they were often musicals. Background music by established musicians were a part of their decline in popularity (I'm looking at you, Phil Collins.)

Randy Newman has been doing sountracks as long as he's been doing albums. He comes from a family of film composers (8 first cousins and uncles with successful careers scoring films). His uncle Alfred Newman was a legendary composer nominated for over 40 Oscars, and Randy learned from the best. He's scored dozens of movies, nominated for 16 Oscars... Some of his albums have even taken the form of pseudo-sountracks to non-existent musicals (Good Old Boys and Faust, both of which I'd highly reccomend).

Don't compare this to the Phil Collins/Elton John shit. Newman knows what he's doing.

And, besides, the movie is set in 1920s Louisiana. Who could possibly be better to do a blues/ragtime influenced musical than Newman? It would almost be weird to have anyone else.

[Space Pirate Roberts]

One of the Dreamgirls (but not the good one) signed to voice the Frog Princess

[stormy]

Yes, it's a twist on the classic fairy tale. Something that is done very often, wrap yo head around it foo.

Disney should make an original movie for once. It annoys me that all their movies are just cribbed (with acknowledgement or not) from other sources.

[Cowutopia]

That's what pixar is for.

[Frogacuda]

Disney should make an original movie for once. It annoys me that all their movies are just cribbed (with acknowledgement or not) from other sources.

They had been doing nothing but for years. Lilo and Stitch, Brother Bear, Treasure Planet, Atlantis, Home on the Range... And they did them back in the day sometimes, too. Dumbo, Aristocats, etc.

[Kiken]

They had been doing nothing but for years. Lilo and Stitch, Brother Bear, Treasure Planet, Atlantis, Home on the Range... And they did them back in the day sometimes, too. Dumbo, Aristocats, etc.

Treasure Planet was a futuristic revision of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. But I agree on the rest (even if Atlantis basically is Disney's version of Stargate).

[bbobb]

Atlantis was just Nadia as well.