Dreams come true in New Orleans

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I don't usually review movies. Whenever I go to a movie I usually either love it or make fun of it, and don't really have a strong opinion about it. However, and a disney kid, I was anticipating The Princess and the Frog since it was announced that disney was going back to it's 2D roots.

I haven't seen a new 2D disney movie since high school, when I was completely obsessed with memorizing every single song from every single movie. The only thing I really got out of having all of those songs in my head is challenging my roommates to name a song and me sing it. HAHA

I think the high school Caitlyn would have goggled The Princess and the Frog up. It really stayed true to the classic disney films. The animation was perfect, the layouts were beautiful, the characters were strong. And I think this was where I was lost.

I know the target audience for this film was little girls, but I found myself being unimpressed by the perfection of the film. I have seen this before, I know what's going to happen. The art, while beautiful, didn't inspire me with it's creativity. The character designs were poor at some times, and seemed to follow a disney blueprint. I found myself loving tiana and hating all of the secondary characters (as always).

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed myself. But I found myself in a comfort zone, rather than watching a film that was truly inspiring such as The Incredibles, Nocturna, or Brendan and the Secret of Kells.
It was so clean, almost sterile, unlike some of my disney favorites like sleeping beauty and the Jungle Book.

I don't know if anyone else felt this way. I just found myself being lead around by disney as it said "HEY LOOK, WE DID THIS PERFECTLY. WE STILL ROCK THE 2D WORLD" And we no buying it as much as I would have when I was in high school.


ANyone else have opinions on the movie? Disney? And 2D animation?
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I haven't seen it yet for various reasons, but I plan on seeing it within the next week or so :>

The only thing I have to say about your review is:

Welcome to the wonderful world of formulaic animation!

Yes, there is a formula. Yes, Disney follows it to a T. Since you're an animation student you're finally beginning to see it. There is an old established formula for disney animation, just as their is a formula for action movies like Indiana Jones or star wars. Once you see it you cannot un-see it. :> It's been around since before we were born. The important thing is not that you see the formula, but that you as an artist are going to improve upon said formula/make something 100x more awesome for future generations.

Unfortunately big studios are very afraid to take a risk on anything besides the established formula. They're afraid of loosing money. It's up to independent studios/artists to make movies for art's sake and not for money's sake. :)