Posts Tagged ‘ animation ’

Thank you for returning to Moniqueblog! If you like my content, please follow me @moniqueblognet, on facebook, and email me at mljcollegeblog@gmail.com. College is finally over for this semester, and I finally have some time to watch movies again! Hooray! To reinvigorate my DVD review section, here’s the review of Fantastic Mr. Fox. If...
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Clash of the Titans is about to come to theaters April 2 (and the 1981 version is out for download on iTunes), probably signaling a revived interest in classical Greek characters and stories. Will new-school Titans go down as a classic among the other Greek stories that have graced Hollywood? Here’s a list of...
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Here‘s the full review I wrote when the movie was in theaters, but for for a quick recap of the story, Tiana (Anika Noni Rose) wants to open a restaurant in honor of her father (Terrence Howard), but she’s lost how to have fun in the process. After kissing a frog who says he’s...
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Who’s going to indulge their inner magic nerd and go to Universal Studios’ Magical World of Harry Potter? Well, if you’re like me, you probably wish there were more theme parks based on awesome places from movies, Disney Parks not included (but even Disney missed a few movie places that would make killer parks)....
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If you’ve kept up with my site, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of animation (see interviews with Hey Arnold! creator Craig Bartlett and composer Jim Lang). I’m also a big fan of history, so the history-making animated movie The Princess and the Frog was right up myalley. I was able to catch...
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Ever since it was announced that Disney was creating a movie centered around a black princess, there’s been both happiness and consternation. The anger and fear that Disney would pull some racist stunts allowed for outrageous tantrums; at first, Tiana’s name was “Maddy”, and was changed due to some folks calling racism. Then, her...
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The Princess and the Frog –a story about how a hardworking girl is transformed into a frog-is what you get when you mesh Disney animators’ stellar drawing and character acting with Pixar’s philosophy about telling a non-pandering-to-kids, fun, and realistic story. Of course, I’m not trying to take away from the fact that Disney...
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This is probably old news to some of you guys, but I didn’t know Tiana and Naveen were already in the Disney on Ice program! For those of you who didn’t know this, watch their numbers below:
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Now, I know Disney couldn’t see into the future and be able to plan The Princess and the Frog to premiere in the same year that Barack Obama was elected as the first president of African descent, but fate and providence would have it so. Since this is the case, are there any similarities...
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