In the past several years, animated films have slowly gone downhill and their quality has diminished. With the exception of Pixar and some Dreamworks productions, animated films aren’t that good and feature unoriginal storylines and bad CGI. With Disney’s latest, The Princess and The Frog, they decide to take one from their old playbooks and throw out the computer imaging and go back to the days of hand drawn animated films, and the end result shows Disney made the right choice.

Disney’s latest film is another one to add to the princess series, telling the story of a girl who lives in New Orleans and her family is poor. While they don’t have money they are happy to have each other. Tianas dream is to open her own restaurant, after her father has been teaching her how to cook, but sadly he dies in the war and the adult Tiana is working as a waitress to raise the money to open the restaurant her and her father wanted to. At a party with her childhood friend, whose dad is a big shot in New Orleans, Tiana meets a talking frog who asks to kiss her to turn back into a human and that he is a prince. She does but she turns into a frog. With a voodoo master villain, and the treacherous bayou to get through, the two try to find a way to be turned back into their human selves and along the way meet some new friends.

The Princess and The Frog is a great movie for all ages. In the theater, there were mostly kids, but my friends and I were laughing, not at it, but because it was actually funny. The story was great and had some on the verge of tears, the jokes were hilarious and the characters charming and likeable, except for the villainous voodoo master of course. Overall, The Princess and The Frog is an excellent animated film, that has done well with audiences, getting number one at the box office in it’s opening week and had audiences leaving the theater happy.