The Frog Prince

Still have my reservations about kissing frogs to find a prince. Imagine the flickering tongue. God only knows where it's been.


Wait till you hear his peculiar accent!
But if it's the remarkably sexy, laid-back Prince Naveen from the Princess & the Frog, I just might take a shot. What the heck. Even in slimy green, the dark-eyed smoothie's charming enough to make me reconsider. After all, what's a little gooey mucus between guys! Not like I'm going to shriek in horror when he spills other bodily fluids on me.

I might even welcome it.

Glad to see Disney back with an animated, hand-drawn fairy tale though. A charming twist on the tale, the Princess & the Frog has the girl turning into a frog after sharing a kiss. To the amazement of the frog prince obviously. Thus begins their search for a cure as they befriend a trumpet-playing alligator and a hopelessly romantic firefly along the way.

Not since the delicious Eric from the Little Mermaid have I gotten such a hard-on for an animated Disney prince. But Naveen's certainly yummy enough. And for the first time, I don't mean frog legs lightly stir-fried with ginger on a platter.

Certainly far livelier than the yawn-a-minute politically-correct heroine, Tiana - who works double shifts as a waitress to save enough for her dream restaurant selling beignets and gumbo. Our gritty Tiana's the most driven girl in the Big Easy, no damsel in distress, waiting for a prince to come to her rescue. Alas sterling qualities do not an interesting character make.

Hell, I preferred her best friend, the dizzy blond bombshell heiress Charlotte. Determined in her own way to land her dream of a prince charming, Charlotte pulls out all the stops. But far from being the prerequisite ugly, back-stabbing stepsister, she certainly proves her loyalty by sticking to the phrase bros before hos ( or chicks before dicks as it may be ).

She deserves a happy ending of her own. The creators at Disney should have dropped stick-in-the-mud Tiana in favour of feisty Charlotte instead.


Still wonder why the Disney folks seem to adore Randy Newman! Seriously. Apart from the Toy Story theme songs, has he written anything wildly memorable for the other movies? Though the songs in the Frog ranged from twangy zydeco to full-on jazz, I don't think anyone's going to find them irresistibly catchy in the least.

Nothing with pizzazz! Nothing as crazily entertaining as the dancing candelabra inviting the audience to Be his Guest nor as lushly romantic as Kiss the Girl in the Little Mermaid.