There, they meet a trumpet-playing alligator named Louis, who dreams of playing Jazz. A chase ensues and they escape to a bayou. Tiana tackles Naveen, sending them flying into the masquerade ball. Tiana reluctantly accepts after Naveen promises to finance her restaurant.īut instead, Tiana transforms into a frog when she kisses Naveen because she is not a true princess. Believing her to be a princess, Naveen asks for a kiss to break Facilier's spell. Despondent from being outbid, Tiana wishes on the Evening Star for her dream to come true. Charlotte sees Tiana's dirty dress and provides her with a princess gown.
During this conversation, she falls into the beignets, dirtying her costume. Facilier intends for the disguised Lawrence to marry Charlotte, and then plans to kill her father with a voodoo doll so he can gain the La Bouffs' fortune.Īt the ball, the realtors, the Fenner Brothers, tell Tiana she has been outbid for the mill. Instead, Facilier's voodoo magic transforms Naveen into a frog and Lawrence gains Naveen's appearance through a voodoo talisman containing Naveen's blood. Facilier, a voodoo witch doctor who convinces them he can make their dreams come true. Meanwhile, Naveen and his valet, Lawrence, encounter Dr. After Tiana suggests the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach, Charlotte hires Tiana to make her "man-catching" beignets for the ball, paying Tiana enough to buy a dilapidated mill to convert into her dream restaurant. Charlotte's father, the wealthy Eli "Big Daddy" La Bouff hosts a masquerade ball in Naveen's honor. Naveen intends to marry a rich Southern belle like Charlotte. Despite being royalty, he has no money because he was financially cut-off. Prince Naveen of Maldonia arrives in New Orleans. She devotes her time to her dream, leaving no time to socialize with friends. Charlotte finds the story romantic Tiana declares she will never kiss a frog.įourteen years later, in 1926, Tiana works two waitress jobs, saving to open her own restaurant, a dream she shared with her late father. In 1912 New Orleans, Tiana and her friend Charlotte La Bouff listen to Tiana's mother read The Frog Prince. 5.5 Impact, aftermath, debates, and legacy.It lost to Up and Crazy Heart, respectively. It received three Oscar nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards: one for Best Animated Feature and two for Best Original Song. The film received largely positive reviews from critics and audiences, praising the animation (particularly the revival of the medium), characters, music, and themes, and was also successful at the box office, ranking first place on its opening weekend in North America, and grossing around $269 million worldwide becoming Disney’s most successful traditionally animated film since Lilo & Stitch in 2002, and the animation studio’s most successful film overall since Tarzan in 1999, ten years earlier. The Princess and the Frog opened in limited release in New York and Los Angeles on November 25, 2009, and in wide release on December 11, 2009. The studio returned to a Broadway musical-style format frequently used during the Disney Renaissance and features music written by composer Randy Newman, well known for his musical involvement in Pixar films such as the Toy Story franchise. Clements and Musker, directors of Disney's highly successful films The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), and Hercules (1997) returned to Disney to direct The Princess and the Frog. It marked Disney's brief return to traditional animation, as it was the mainstream animation studio's first traditionally animated film since Home on the Range (2004). The Princess and the Frog began production under the working title The Frog Princess. After kissing a prince who has been turned into a frog by an evil witch doctor, Tiana becomes a frog herself and must find a way to turn back into a human before it is too late. Set in the 1920s New Orleans, the film tells the story of a hardworking waitress named Tiana who dreams of opening her own restaurant. Written and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the film stars Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jim Cummings, Jennifer Cody, John Goodman, Keith David, Peter Bartlett, Jenifer Lewis, Oprah Winfrey, and Terrence Howard. Baker, which is in turn based on the German folk tale " The Frog Prince" as collected by the Brothers Grimm. The 49th Disney animated feature film, the film is loosely based on the novel The Frog Princess by E. The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 American animated musical fantasy romantic comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.