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spoofmasterI was going to wait to see The Princess and the Frog until it had been out for a while and I could use one of my vouchers to get in for $6 instead of $8, but I gave in last night and went to Downtown Disney after work. I realized while on the guest bus that I could have just gotten on the CP bus like usual and gotten off at Pop Century to get the next bus from there (no direct service between the parks and DD), but I had a brain fart, so I didn't and I got there juuust in time to run in and grab a seat in time for the previews (that new Jackie Chan movie--and I'm sorry to say this, I do love Jackie Chan--looks completely and irredeemably awful; however, I'm actually starting to look forward to Toy Story 3). Today I was thinking about going to see Fantastic Mr. Fox, but I have a lot of work to do around the apartment, and it'd be kind of nice to just chill out today anyway. Maybe on Wednesday? I dunno. Sometime soon, anyway.
I was prepared not to like the movie, though I'd been getting more enthusiastic about it as time went on, but I really enjoyed it. It was funny, it was touching, and man, it was really, really pretty. And the music! The only song I didn't particularly like was the modern-style Oscar-bait they had over the credits--it was alright, but I would have rather had some more jazz. Ben has said that he will not go to a Disney princess movie by himself (oh the tribulations of being a manly man), but if it's still playing when I get back in January, he'll go to it with me. I'm already planning to see it again sometime before then, though I'm going to try to hold off for two weeks so I can use those aforementioned vouchers.
I definitely feel that this is a case of the classic fairytale sort of attitude being updated. I don't want to spoil it for you, but when I say that I don't mean because it's irreverent or even because it's been relocated to New Orleans in the roaring twenties. I mean it because Tiana doesn't sit around singing about how someday her prince will come; she goes out there and she works to make her dream (not actually a heterosexual coupling, though the movie does subscribe to the old Disney idea that heterosexual coupling solves all of life's problems) come true.
I was prepared not to like the movie, though I'd been getting more enthusiastic about it as time went on, but I really enjoyed it. It was funny, it was touching, and man, it was really, really pretty. And the music! The only song I didn't particularly like was the modern-style Oscar-bait they had over the credits--it was alright, but I would have rather had some more jazz. Ben has said that he will not go to a Disney princess movie by himself (oh the tribulations of being a manly man), but if it's still playing when I get back in January, he'll go to it with me. I'm already planning to see it again sometime before then, though I'm going to try to hold off for two weeks so I can use those aforementioned vouchers.
I definitely feel that this is a case of the classic fairytale sort of attitude being updated. I don't want to spoil it for you, but when I say that I don't mean because it's irreverent or even because it's been relocated to New Orleans in the roaring twenties. I mean it because Tiana doesn't sit around singing about how someday her prince will come; she goes out there and she works to make her dream (not actually a heterosexual coupling, though the movie does subscribe to the old Disney idea that heterosexual coupling solves all of life's problems) come true.
