The girls and I saw Disney's The Princess and the Frog this weekend. I have long awaited a Disney movie with a black Princess so I was very excited to see this one. I really enjoyed it. The story was good, the message was good and the overall experience was one I really liked. I also really loved that Disney went back to hand drawn animation. Computer animation is great, but there is something wonderfully familiar about the old way.
The music was fantastic! I loved that it introduced my kids to a range of different musical styles. And there was a beautiful lullaby about a character named Evangeline. Obviously, our Evangeline was very into that song. She never hears her name, while Ella often does.
There was one serious drawback. The bad guy. Now, I am the first to admit that my girls are very sissy when it comes to bad guys, but this bad guy was truly overly scary. He is a voo-doo doctor and sends very eerie, dark spirits to go after the main characters. The spirits make creepy hissing sounds as they hunt. He also sings a song early on that is accompanied by these creepy spirits and masks and skulls. It is very very dark and very very scary for my kids (age 5 and 3). They closed their eyes and plugged their ears for pretty much every scene he appeared in.
I think older children will really like this movie, but younger kids and children sensitive to scary villains will definitely find the bad guy to be nightmare material, so use caution. I would say he is a notch or two scarier than Shan Yu from Mulan. Check out this small clip below to guage scariness before taking little kids to this movie.
My overall opinion: Great for viewers aged 6+ , but WAY too scary for younger kids.
The music was fantastic! I loved that it introduced my kids to a range of different musical styles. And there was a beautiful lullaby about a character named Evangeline. Obviously, our Evangeline was very into that song. She never hears her name, while Ella often does.
There was one serious drawback. The bad guy. Now, I am the first to admit that my girls are very sissy when it comes to bad guys, but this bad guy was truly overly scary. He is a voo-doo doctor and sends very eerie, dark spirits to go after the main characters. The spirits make creepy hissing sounds as they hunt. He also sings a song early on that is accompanied by these creepy spirits and masks and skulls. It is very very dark and very very scary for my kids (age 5 and 3). They closed their eyes and plugged their ears for pretty much every scene he appeared in.
I think older children will really like this movie, but younger kids and children sensitive to scary villains will definitely find the bad guy to be nightmare material, so use caution. I would say he is a notch or two scarier than Shan Yu from Mulan. Check out this small clip below to guage scariness before taking little kids to this movie.
My overall opinion: Great for viewers aged 6+ , but WAY too scary for younger kids.
5 comments:
Thanks for the review. The bad-guy looks up to par with most of the evil characters in disney movies...creeptasticly cover-your-eyes as a litte kid, but then okay when you get older. Looks good, can't wait to see it!
Woah! Todd would be freaked out.
Thanks so much for this review! I was thinking of taking my 4 year old son (I know it's a princess movie but this is a boy that I had to convince he needed to be something other than tinkerbell!) He tends to get freaked out pretty easily and has nightmares over the smallest things. I think we will skip on this one until I can preview it at the $ movies and maybe take him there. That way if he wants to leave I won't feel like I wasted a small fortune. :)
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