Mandy Moore, Mandy Moore, Let Down Your Hair

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10Sep2009

Mandy Moore, Mandy Moore, Let Down Your Hair

Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 1:41AM

I encourage you to watch the recent trailer for Disney's The Princess and the Frog. Even a cynical bastard like me can't help but get nostalgic for those old days of hand-drawn Disneymation when he sees how good that movie looks.

I bring it up not just because you really ought to watch the trailer, but also because I want to shake somebody at Disney for going the digital 3-D route with Rapunzel. We all know Disney has a lot at stake in the 3-D arena, but if there's a movie that really ought to be hand-drawn, it's one of the fairy tales. I have hopes that The Princess and the Frog will prove that audiences are still drawn in by more than the latest thing, and believe just as strongly that 3-D is a bad fit for a movie like this.

On the plus side: It'll be a Mandy Moore movie that isn't a bomb, so she'll be happy. Moore has been cast as the title character in the animated musical update of the Brothers Grimm, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, Zachary Levi from Chuck will provide "the voice of the dashing bandit who finds himself on the road with the rebellious, teenage hair apparent."

So the story will look slightly different from the one we know so well, and that's fine. Maybe it even justifies the 3-D, but on first blush, I think they've thought this thing into a corner.

Colin Boyd |

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