Talk:The Princess and the Frog/@comment-26316475-20150626153149

I was such a big fan of this movie back when it first came out! I saw it with my mom and my sister on opening day and we all had a great time! Even the audience applauded when it was over! I thought it was truly a triumphant return to the type of quality Disney animated classics that they were meant to make! I still love it to this day, yet at the same time I'm still completely heartbroken that the film didn't meet the box office expectations. I really believe that the 2 main reasons behind this tragic financial misfire were that judging by it's title and it's marketing, most audiences, particularly boys, had completely misjudged the film as a girl's movie, rather than a film for everybody like the filmmakers intended. I also think that the film's release date was incorrectly timed. It was released nationwide in December, instead of November. I think the movie could have done a little bit better if it opened nationwide around Thanksgiving, that way it would have given people more time to see it before some of the big tentpole releases like Avatar and Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 came out. I think Disney should have considered swapping release dates with the live action comedy Old Dogs and have Princess and the Frog open the Wednesday before Thanksgiving 2009 and have Old Dogs come out in December, because Old Dogs really didn't stand a chance against the other big holiday releases. I am sure that the movie is slowly but surely starting to become a cult classic, especially since Tiana has become an official Disney Princess and that she is becoming a very recognizable and popular character in the Disney Family and the fact that the movie did very well in it's DVD and Blu-ray release, which could mean that the audiences who didn't see it in theaters appeared to have caught up with the film once they found out it was actually a great movie. I'll bet you $1 million that some people who had never seen this movie before will suddenly see one of the characters in the theme parks and would say, "What movie was this character from?" And then, one person would say, "Oh, this character was from Princess and the Frog." The other person would say, "Really? I probably need to give this movie another chance! It must be special!" I am holding out hope that Disney will give hand-drawn animated features another fresh restart whenever they feel the time is right, because I can imagine there will be a time when people are going to start wondering, "Why is Disney not making anymore hand-drawn features?" Like some of you here, I do hope Disney makes more high-quality 2D movies at some point, but for now, they have been making a lot of great 3D movies that are kind of close to the level of most of the Pixar films. And I am still looking forward to seeing what they do next.