‘Hey, can I please have a large popcorn and an extra large cup of nostalgia. Kthanksbye.’

So for our fourth project brief, my group and I had a change of plans, and I think it’s a brilliant idea. One of our forms of research is to watch Disney films and make notes about the meaning the film portrays.

And the film I’ve chosen to watch was The Princess and the Frog, mainly because it features the first African American Disney princess. I have never seen this film before but I knew that it would follow that typical princess love story that Disney usually has. I mean, just reading the title, it’s pretty obvious what it’s about.

What I really liked most about this film was the continuous emphasis on ‘working hard for what you want because life isn’t a fairytale and you can’t just wish for things to happen then expect them to actually happen’. Which if you think about it, is quite contrary to the usual princess films of ‘don’t worry, you’re fairy godmother got you covered girl, it’s all good’.

In this day and age, it’s nice to see that young children have a film where they can see that women, regardless of race, can achieve anything as long as they work hard.