Yeah...I know I should have kept the Frosty review up but really, you can check my previous entries if you want to see it.

For those that do not know, yes, I have seen the Princess and the Frog and I thought it was wonderful, mostly because its story beat the shit out of all the other movies I saw this year but seeing as the movies I saw were along the likes of G-Force, Funny People, GI Joe and a few others...yeah.

For the most part I loved the film. I love the fact that it was wonderfully done hand-drawn animation. I love the fact that colors were great and the designs were nice. The music was memorable, the vocal cast wisely chosen but most of all, this gave little black girls something to enjoy. The thing I loved most about this film besides the fairy-tale setting was the fact it took a real place, a real time, and turned it into something fanatical. True, Disney is not the first place to up with a concept of this, but this was well done. It was simple enough to please everyone but with it simplicity something fun was created and all in all, the goal was met for this movie. It basically proved that you can take any characters, any setting and make them shine with a good story and other things to back it up.

Nonetheless, a lot of people have to realize just how long it took something like this to happen. I am satisfied with the Princess, but of course, I want more. I hope people don't use this movie as an excuse of 'okay, it's done and we don't have to do anything' which seems to happen quite often. I think this is a sign that black people need to do more with animation or at least star encouraging our artist MORE. I mean really. Disney did a wonderful job but we shouldn't just rely on them to produce more things for us. There is so much untapped and unknown talent out there and if we're so much into 'supporting the community' we need to support our artist and not dicatate them.

What do I mean by dictating? Well, I will tell you.

We all know the shit that had happened prior to the Princess even coming out. People bitched about her name, her job, the way she looked and all that shit. Some of the claims made were...well, wall-bangingly stupid at times. There were a lot of arguments on how the town of New Orleans should have been handeled in the film considering the setting of the story. One of the most bullshit arguments I've seen recently was that the movie was too white-washed.

Why?

Because there were not enough race issues in the movie.

Are you fuckin' kidding me? The movie was white-washed because it didn't have enough race issues in it? What the fuck are you talking about? From the way these people are talking, it sounds like they basically wanted the Klan to show and hang a few people as the movie started. Maybe THAT would have made it more engaging for them.

Let me put it likes this; this movie was FICTIONAL. Sure it happened in a REAL city but in no way, shape or form was this supposed to be a COMMENTARY on issues. This was a FICITIONAL story featuring FICTIONAL characters, including one who is from a FICTIOANL country.

I'm guessing these are the same people who thought that Maddie was too much of a slavish name or who thought she didn't look black enough. See, these are the people that make me sick. They whine when something that does not need a social commentary doesn't have a social commentary but then they turn around and whine when something informative is brought up because its offensive. What the fuck?

Black issues? Why does anything that looks 'remotely' black have to have fuckin' issues? As said, this is why we can't have good shit. Its like...I don't know. These people want to turn every fuckin' thing into an issue so people know about 'the black lifestyle' The only thing they miss the fact that not every black person is cookie-cutter created and faces the same issues. Maybe this is why I'm more for individuality than any so called 'collective lifestyle' or whatever. Its all bullshit to me. There is such a thing as being proud of where you came from and who you are but that stops once people try to place the same story on everyone and expect them to think the same. This is why we have so many problems as it is. We're too concerned with trying to present this collective mind yet we alienate ourselves because we prevent ourselves from realizing that we aren't all the same or we don't have the same taste in that or we aren't all built the same. Why must we always put labels on OURSELVES of all things just to be proud?

I guess this is why I want to get my shit out. I like to create characters. Yes, there are some social commentaries in my work (not in RP) but for the most part, I wanted to dig up 'issues' that are rarely touched in the black community such as the concept of people following different religions other than Christianity, mental illnesses, homosexuality and MAH FavoRITE, how we can be self-damaging to ourselves by placing labels for false ideals on ourselves...

Yeah, you guys all know how I feel about THAT.

But yes...not enough issues. Mother fucker, if you want to watch something with issues, continuing sucking the dick of Tyler Perry. He'll give you plently of issues. The rest of us will be watching something that we can enjoy without bringing up emotions of suicide.

Yes. I went there...