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he last member of the Disney dynasty may have passed, but Walt Disney’s legacy remains. This latest release is a return to form for the studios which have not released a full-length, hand-drawn, animated, musical motion picture for some time.
Walt made the history books with his version of ‘Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs’ in the late 1930s. He may have been down to his last cent at many a time during his long and lustrous career, but the strides he made translating this classic tale into celluloid is to be marvelled.
‘The Princess and the Frog’ has built on this legacy and retains all the magic of the past while at the same time current enough to attract the children of today.
Says John Lasseter, Executive Producer and Chief Creative Officer, Walt Disney Animation Studios, ‘‘The Princess and the Frog’ is a return to the timeless world of hand-drawn animation at Disney. It’s an ageless fairy tale, but with a fresh twist that combines everything we look for in great stories: comedy, adventure, music—and most of all, the kind of heart that always sets Disney animation apart.
‘If there was a single lesson we could take from Walt himself to take Walt Disney Animation Studios into the future,’ he says, ‘it is to leverage the richness of its past: its beloved storytelling forms, its successful characters, its musical opulence—all of these are an essential part of our newest hand-drawn project.’
In this tale the ‘fateful’ kiss not only takes the prince and princess into the murky waters of the Bayou, but changes the latter into a frog as well. Adding to the ambience is the accompanying musical score provided by Randy Newman.
All-in-all ‘The Princess and the Frog’ encompasses the tradition which ‘allows audiences to once again share an opportunity to see whether true love can really triumph, to strive for an ending where everyone lives happily ever after, and to leave the theatre humming that song that they can’t seem to get out of their heads’.
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