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She’s The Man II
Posted by Brian
Anika Noni Rose is doing it really big right now. In addition to her project with Jill Scott, she has signed on to voice Maddy in Disney’s The Frog Princess. Rose will become Disney’s first black princess in the first hand-drawn film Disney has committed to since the Pixar purchase. The film promises to feature the types of songs that Disney films have become famous for over the years.
The Frog Written/directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the animated musical scored by Randy Newman, is set in New Orleans. The movie follows Maddy, a young African-American girl who lives in the infamous French Quarter. The new movie will feature a soulful singing crocodile and voodoo spells. (WTF)
I don’t know about ya’ll but I have sisters and growing up watching those Disney movies, they always wanted to be a princess so it good to see Anika continuing to do her thing and that little Black girls get to see themselves as princesses on the big screen, but what’s up with the “voodoo spells?” I’m thinking that a lot of Black mothers will not be sending their kids to watch anything like that, but then maybe again they will since our parents didn’t seem to have any problems letting us watch wicked witches and evil stepmothers. We’ll have to wait and see.
I’m happy about the whole black princess thing but I’m not feelin the way they drew that princess…doesn’t have the Disney quality that the other princesses have. It looks kind of sloppy to me, as an artist, I just know they could have done a better job portraying a Nubian princess…voodoo spells, well Disney always has a witch or sorcerer in their movies, I guess this being based in New Orleans was their reason for throwing in the whole voodoo cliché.