Yep! Dark skinned with ethnic features while the protagonist is a coffee-colored Ken doll. A real return to form for Disney.

Just to get this ball rolling.

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=64591

Um, the protagonist is a female.

But her boyfriend being "coffee colored" and not sufficiently "ethnic looking" probably has something to do with the fact that black people are not interchangeable and actually have a variety of skin tones and features. Fancy that.

A variety of skin tones and features coded to their trustworthiness for our convenience

It's a wonderful film. And it has John Goodman in a comedic father role. All of the New Orleans bits are amazingly well animated. The parts where they are frogs are just simply cute.

It was a good film. Definitely better than the last few princess movies.

As a grown-ass man who willingly derives entertainment from cartoons for children, Princess and the Frog is a good time.

I gave it a fair chance, but I was bored as hell. It started off well, and the villain (as is usual) more interesting than the heroes. But most of the film literally treaded water in a swamp killing time and trying to force the leads together without establishing chemistry.

I dunno, I guess since all the animated films I watch nowadays are either Pixar or Miyazaki, I'm spoilt into expecting it to work as movie for adults as well.

"Transformation central"??

What formula? You can't say there is one wirhout a hilarious math equation.

shit + shit = shit

Pardon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wHNdmGqaA4&feature=related

Better, because it cuts to the chase much faster.