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Why, I often wondered, wasn’t life more like a Disney movie? In recent years, Disney and all it 
stands for has changed, mainly because other companies have traipsed into its territory. Pixar offers us much of the same traditional Disney view, but it adds just a bit of irony and slightly edgy humor. DreamWorks thrives on irony and lets its humor pass by so quickly most viewers never understand just how edgy it really is. Twentieth Century Fox is a gag-happy combination of both. Which is why “The Princess and the Frog” is such a surprise. At its heart, this is Disney tradition at its most basic. The story itself, though a variation on the traditional Grimm Brothers tale “The Frog Prince,” mixes a little “Wizard of Oz” with “Beauty and the Beast” and more than a bit of “Song of the South”/Dan Webster, Movies & More. More here.
Question: Which Disney movie is your favorite?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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moscow_minidoka on December 16 at 9:34 a.m.
The animated “Robin Hood” from the early 1970s, with Roger Miller as the narrator.
nic on December 16 at 9:50 a.m.
Nightmare Before Christmas. And The Sword in the Stone.
hmoffsuite on December 16 at 10:02 a.m.
Bambi or Lady and the Tramp.