The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 American animated musical comedy adventure fantasy film based on E.D. Baker's novel The Frog Princess, which was in turn inspired by the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale The Frog Prince. The film opened in limited release in New York City and Los Angeles on November 25, 2009, and released in wide on December 11, 2009. It is the 49th animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon and the first to be traditionally-animated since 2004's Home on the Range. The film was directed by John Musker and Ron Clements (best known for The Little Mermaid and Aladdin), with songs and score composed by Randy Newman. Tiana, the main character, is also notable as Disney's first African-American princess.
The film, which began production under the working title The Frog Princess, is a well-known fairy tale, Broadway-style musical set in and around New Orleans at the height of the Roaring Twenties. It centers on a hardworking waitress named Tiana, who dreams of opening a restaurant. After sharing a kiss with a prince that had been transformed into a frog by an evil witch doctor, Tiana must embark on a journey with the prince to find a voodoo priestess to break the spell as she too falls victim to it.
Rating[]
The Princess and the Frog received a G rating by the MPAA. This is the forty-second Disney animated film to be rated as such in the US after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, Robin Hood, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Rescuers, The Fox and the Hound, The Great Mouse Detective, Oliver & Company, The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan, Tarzan, Fantasia 2000, The Emperor's New Groove, Brother Bear, Chicken Little and Meet the Robinsons.
Voice cast[]
- Anika Noni Rose as Tiana
- Elizabeth Dampier voices Tiana as a child
- Bruno Campos as Prince Naveen
- Jennifer Cody as Charlotte La Bouff
- Breanna Brooks voices Charlotte as a child
- Keith David as Dr. Facilier
- Jenifer Lewis as Mama Odie
- Jim Cummings as Ray
- Michael-Leon Wooley as Louis
- Louis' trumpeting was done by Terence Blanchard
- Emeril Lagasse as Marlon
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Ian
- Peter Bartlett as Lawrence
- John Goodman as Eli La Bouff
- Oprah Winfrey as Eudora
- Terrence Howard as James
- Ritchie Montgomery as Reggie
- Don Hall as Darnell
- Paul Briggs as Two Fingers
- Jerry Kernion as Mr. Henry Fenner
- Corey Burton as Mr. Harvey Fenner
- Randy Newman as Cousin Randy
- Michael Colyar as Buford
- Danielle Moné Truitt as Georgia
- Kwesi Boakye as Newspaper Boy
- Mick Wingert as Travis
- Jennifer Kilger as Swooning Girl
- Phil Proctor as Cajun Firefly
- Seth R. Williamson as Prince Ralphie
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