Rotten Tomatoes score: 85%
Synopsis: New Orleans local Tiana dreams of opening her own restaurant, but is sidetracked when a prince-turned-frog mistakes her for a princess and accidentally turns her into a frog, too.
"'The Princess and the Frog happens' to introduce an African-American heroine, a Disney animation first," wrote Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum. "The story also happens to be set in an idealized New Orleans of an earlier time, a city whose historic beauty and cultural importance will forever be filtered by contemporary adults through grimmer awareness of the natural and man-made disasters of Hurricane Katrina. It's all the more effective, though, that this Big Easy of a movie needs no overt mention of Katrina to move our hearts, and inserts no overt lesson in the history of civil rights to distract from the groundbreaking matter-of-factness of Tiana's equality."
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