Disney Returns to Traditional Animation with The Princess and the Frog

May 22, 2009

Disney’s The Princess and the Frog is set to open in theaters this December. This will be the first traditionally animated movie that Disney has released in theaters in quite a while. (Lately, Disney has been concentrating on CGI animation with its extremely successful Pixar studios.)

In the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, Disney released some of the weakest movies of its long animation history (Pocahontas, Hercules, Atlantis, Lilo & Stitch, etc.). Now the studios seem to be trying to regain the Disney magic of its earlier masterpieces. It isn’t a coincidence that the Princess trailer includes clips from Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King.

With The Princess and the Frog, Disney is going back to the traditional princess movie that’s always worked well in the past, albeit with a few new twists. This movie will feature the first black Disney princess. It also takes place in New Orleans rather than the more Disney-typical Old World city or exotic foreign land. Looks like a winner. Check out the official trailer here.

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