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Fantasmic17
08-08-2007, 03:26 PM
WHO ELSE IS EXCITED FOR THE 2009 RELEASE OF "THE FROG PRINCESS"!!!?????

They've hired Alan Menken (FINALLY SOME SENSE) and promise to return to the Broadway style of animated films reminscent of the wonderful Disney Rennaisance. Finally Walt Disney Pictures will return to story telling and music, the way that it used to be. I mean, who's going to remember "Cars" or any of the other recent Disney films. I know that the Disney films that will always be with me wherever I go are "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", "The Lion King", and so on.

HALLELUJJA!!!!!!!

(I don't know if I spelt that right but I'm just happy...)
CoryTheRaven
08-08-2007, 05:58 PM
I don't know if I'm quite as happy as you about The Princess and the Frog, but I am looking forward to it, both as a return to classic 2-D animated fairytales and for the 1920's New Orleans setting of it... Mmm, Jazz and Voodoo!

P.S.: It's "Hallelujah" ^_^
Fantasmic17
08-10-2007, 01:37 AM
No kidding. The 3-D stuff is becoming a great bore!

Anyone else?
norcal1219
08-10-2007, 07:50 AM
From what I heard, didn't they replace Menken with Randy Newman?
I personally can't see Randy Newman writing music for this type of a Disney movie. I hope we don't get any "You've Got a Friend in Me" type songs in this one.
Fantasmic17
08-10-2007, 10:16 AM
From what I heard, didn't they replace Menken with Randy Newman?
I personally can't see Randy Newman writing music for this type of a Disney movie. I hope we don't get any "You've Got a Friend in Me" type songs in this one.

Ooh, dang. I just checked the page for it on Wikipedia and they changed the composer from Alan Menken to Randy Newmen. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! It's going to be Home on the Range all over again! If they'd truly like to return to the ways of the Disney Rennaissance, don't you think they'd hire the old master for another go-round.
norcal1219
08-13-2007, 09:16 AM
^I totally agree.
Fantasmic17
08-13-2007, 03:37 PM
^I totally agree.

It's just thinking simple.
lpetiti
08-15-2007, 01:19 PM
Ooh, dang. I just checked the page for it on Wikipedia and they changed the composer from Alan Menken to Randy Newmen. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! It's going to be Home on the Range all over again! If they'd truly like to return to the ways of the Disney Rennaissance, don't you think they'd hire the old master for another go-round.

I can't believe the people who did this. I mean, look at the films with music by Menken/Ashman, or Menkan/Schwartz, or even Menken/Zippel (granted, the 'Hercules' soundtrack could be a bit of a strech) and then look at the movies with the music by Newman. Alan Menken has won eight academy awards and has been nominated for fifteen. Although Randy Newman has been nominated for more Oscars than Alan Menken, he hasn't won anything. Am I the only one who sees a problem with this?

Sorry if I seem a bit harsh, I just feel very passionate about this.
Fantasmic17
08-15-2007, 05:08 PM
I can't believe the people who did this. I mean, look at the films with music by Menken/Ashman, or Menkan/Schwartz, or even Menken/Zippel (granted, the 'Hercules' soundtrack could be a bit of a strech) and then look at the movies with the music by Newman. Alan Menken has won eight academy awards and has been nominated for fifteen. Although Randy Newman has been nominated for more Oscars than Alan Menken, he hasn't won anything. Am I the only one who sees a problem with this?

Sorry if I seem a bit harsh, I just feel very passionate about this.

Believe me, you aren't being harsh at all, you're just being realistic. Also, look at the films Menken (and the late Ashman) have been involved in: The Little Mermaid, the great Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas. These are the movies that brought about the Rennaisance of the great Disney film, taking Disney to greater heights than it has ever seen before. Before Pixar, Disney was about telling stories, inspiring children as well as adults, through music. Yes, I'm THOUROUGHLY excited for the return of 2-D and fairy-tale storytelling through broadway musical style, but if Newman doesn't hit the spot with this one as Menken and Ashman did with The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast, I'm very afraid that we'll return into the slum of films we've been seeing for the past couple of years. If you're going to return to something great, you must either hire new, young, and aspiring song writers who will recreate the old style for contemporory audiences, or you stick with your guns, and recreate something old with someone great!
lpetiti
08-16-2007, 01:01 PM
Here, here Fantasmic17!
norcal1219
08-16-2007, 08:15 PM
I agree Fantasmic but I never relized that Ashman worked on Pochahontas.
Fantasmic17
08-19-2007, 05:19 PM
I agree Fantasmic but I never relized that Ashman worked on Pochahontas.

Oh no, Ashman died before Pocahontas. I was just saying Menken worked on the production (must have included Pocahontas under the Menken/Ashman team list thingy... oops).
norcal1219
08-19-2007, 06:54 PM
oh yeah I knew that. Didnt he die after Beauty and the Beast? Or before it was completed?
lpetiti
08-20-2007, 12:53 PM
He did the music for Beauty and the Beast but died before Aladdin was completed.
Disneyland Princess
08-21-2007, 12:22 PM
What were they thinking?
mickeymania1
08-22-2007, 04:37 AM
Yeah. It's too bad tehy didn't get Tim Rice, he'd be worthy of this type of movie. Don't get me wrong, Newman's music is okay but not Academy Award winning. Yeah they should get someone like Tim Rice.
Fantasmic17
08-28-2007, 10:07 PM
Yeah. It's too bad tehy didn't get Tim Rice, he'd be worthy of this type of movie. Don't get me wrong, Newman's music is okay but not Academy Award winning. Yeah they should get someone like Tim Rice.

Maybe a Tim Rice/Alan Menken combo. I don't think they've everd one that before.

Or they could do Stephan Shcwartz/Alan Menken. We'd have a Pocahontas revival!