The Princess and the Frog

I was really excited for this one. It looked really hopeful. I went and saw it with my niece and nephew. I liked how they set it in this time period, the jazz era; and that Tiana was working hard to fulfill her dreams, like every American does, or did. Her best friend was the richest girl in town. And for some reason a Prince came to visit. Apparently his parents cut him off because he was lazy, a play boy, etc. So he had to marry someone rich or whatever. I'm sure there were plenty of other places to look besides New Orleans, but oh well. So, this Witch Doctor overhears all this, decides to get rich by tricking the prince and Charlotte. Prince turns into a frog.
Tiana goes to Charlotte's big party to welcome the Prince, gets dressed up fancy. So the Prince thinks she's a princess or rich, but he approaches her. In the meantime the witch doctor had turned the Princes servant into the prince. He was pretty dumb, of course once Facilier got what he wanted he'd kill him, duh.
Anyway, Tiana gets turned into a frog, they go on an adventure in the Bayou to get to Mama Odie who can undue the spell. They end up falling in love, aaahhh. Course they don't know this till the very end. Tiana just wants money to open her restaurant, etc. Mama Odie tries to tell them that they will change when they figure out what they need instead of what they want.
Charlotte almost marries the wrong Prince, they defeat Facilier, they tell each other they love the other, but the kiss doesn't work. So, they decide to get married as frogs. When they kiss, they change back into humans and get married in the Church(where someone is actually ordained or whatever to marry them)

It was a really cute movie. I really liked it. But I was disappointed because I thought it was too short, and they could have added more to it. It just felt a little empty for me. The music was great, the characters were okay, I think they could have developed the characters better so that you actually cared about them. It felt like this movie was just a "filler" for Disney, an "here enjoy this short film while you wait for others." Type scenario. And I don't now if it was the theater or the movie but I could not understand a lot of the songs and such.

So, a lot of adults complained about taking their kids to this movie because of the witch craft, Facilier being dragged to Hell basically by shadows. And the firefly dude dying and them holding a funeral for him.
This is what I have to say about that:
YOU ARE STUPID! First of all, in stories and especially Disney movies throughout time the bad guy gets his just rewards. Second, I personally think that Lion King was way worse. I mean you have a Uncle killing his brother and basically just being evil. The witch craft and stuff was not bad at all.
And as for the funeral, if you have your kids trained so that their afraid of death then they won't know how to handle it when it happens, because dude, its gonna happen. Death is as natural as birth, at times it comes unexpected, but it is a part of life; so deal with it. And I thought the funeral was beautiful, and him showing up next to his love, Evangeline, the star-was cute. In the fight against Facilier, Ray sacrificed himself to help his friends out; I think that is very honorable, and I'm glad that Disney actually had someone die besides the bad guy because life isn't all roses and everyone goes home safe and happy.

This movie had good morals, good things to teach us and our children. I wish people would grow up and be mature about life.