The Princess and the Frog

I'm kind of excited to go see the new Disney movie coming out in December. It's called The Princess and the Frog and it's just like the fairytale...except different. In this movie, the Princess and the Frog Prince are not the cookie-cutter prince and princess. Disney is actually encouraging interracial relationships for the first time ever. Tiana, a beautiful, young girl from New Orleans is going to be the first black Disney Princess.

In the movie, Princess Tiana agrees to kiss the Frog after he convices her that it will turn him back into a prince. Instead, the Princess also turns into a frog and they embark on an adventure to become human again in the city of New Orleans.

I think it's different, it's fresh and I can't wait to check it out. It also resembles a traditional cartoon. It looks just like The Beauty and the Beast or The Little Mermaid. It might be refreshing to take a trip down memory lane with a few modern twists.



Check out the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8N-kIiELUA

When Does it Stop being Funny?

Comedies like Harold and Kumar that are targeted at college-age students really push the envelope when it comes to racial comedy. Comedy genre in general tends to get away with mocking racial stereotypes, but how far is too far?

I'd never watched a Harold and Kumar movie before but my boyfriend convinced me to watch Harold and Kumar 2: Escape from Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFhzFRoiM3Q&NR=1

Here's a clip from a particular scene that I found hard to watch. This is from a scene on an airplane where a little old lady looks over at Kumar and imagines him as a terrorist because of his ethnicity. In her image, Kumar taunts her and gestures the plane crashing and exploding, clearly mocking what happened during 9/11.

I understand that this is comedy but I think there's some things that just aren't funny. There's some things that should just be left alone. It's one thing for the old lady to picture him as a terrorist and it's another thing to picture him crashing the plane.

This is just the beginning for Harold and Kumar. If anyone of you has seen the movie then you know how much it is filled with mocking racial stereotypes. I did end up watching the whole movie even though I'm not a big fan of racial comedy. For me, it was kind of like watching a car crash. It was horrible but yet I couldn't look away.