Okay so I finally saw it. It was amusing. I'm still singing "Almost there, I'm almost theeeeerrrree". I did notice one particular scene that I didn't like, but as far as the racism talk it was a nice movie and no more racist than say....Pocahontas, Mulan, Cinderella, etc. I was skeptical in letting my daughter see it because when it first came out she was frightened by the shadow man at the movies with her class. Now as someone who has lived on the gulf coast for quite a few years in Mobile, Al, which I hardly ever tell ppl, voodoo is nothing that I am not familiar with. I do not believe in such evil, but you hear about it quite a bit in the South. I would've been okay if the movie wasn't so dark at times and showed the voodoo scenes so explicitly. I think the movie could've implied voodoo, but shouldn't have thrown it all up in the kids face, for example the blood in the necklace or the little demon shadows. Was this a Halloween movie?
Now I will say I loved the underlying message with the voodoo in the songs and the sayings, throughout the story of the it did show the down side of scheming and greed. It keeps saying and showing in different scenarios and songs about the greed and vanity "You get what you want and lose what you have". I enjoyed that, it is true, we must be grateful for what we have. Nothing worth having comes easy. If it's too good to be true it normally is. And always, always read between the lines. There is no truth in evil. Greed and vanity are blinding. I got that out of this movie, but would children?
Now with that being said the story line within the movie was entertaining. This movie was not stereotypical to me because if you've lived in the South and you read and know about the history, this movie was very accurate for the period of time it was recreating. There is no nice way to recreate the history of the South,especially Louisiana, but I think they did a pretty good job, people it wasn't pretty then. Truth be told going there even now is just as much as a culture shock for me as it was 10yrs ago.
Anyway, I like Princess & the Frog, but I'm not sure that I want to purchase it. I need to speak with my big girl about it and see if she wants me to buy it, it's up to her. I wanna know what she truly thinks about it. Is this an epic tale like The Lion King, I think not. I believe that alot of ppl were disappointed b/c maybe we made more of a big deal about this movie than we should have. Of course it is the first black princess, but as a princess period, whether it was a black, white, indian, asian, latina or other race of princess the movie would still be entertaining for me, yet mediocre.