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Originally Posted by St. Margaret  I AM excited because I love classic Disney animation. But I sooooo wish that they could do a female protagonist that wasn't a princess (or called a princess, or aspiring to princesshood, whatever the plot really is). I'm torn because YAY for a black female lead in a Disney film. And yet... I'll have to see it to decide it if really celebrates her as much as the other modern female leads (she spends most of the movie as a frog, it seems?). It seems more like a Disney marketing thing.
But you can't judge it till you see it, I guess, and I will see it, even if it's just through netflix. Because Disney animation and the singing... I will always love that!
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Yeah, I feel you on that. I LOVED Disney as a kid, and still do, honestly, though I have a weird guilt about it. I liked Mulan, but at the end her "Happy Ending" was getting the guy. That's what's irritating: all the women protagonists find happiness with a man at the end. I'd love a story like Up to have been with a little girl.
There's Alice in Wonderland (although pretty much not anything like what the original was to mean
) and Lilo and Stitch that are non love story style lead women versus:
Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty & the Beast, the Little Mermaid, Mulan, Sleeping Beauty-heck, they even did it to Pocahontas! And I loved every one of those movies....but it still would be nice to see a kick a** female lead.
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