Your post seemed to suggest Randy Newman was problematic.
She definitely does check many of the problematic Voodoo boxes. Maybe they can get away with because she’s less in your face “demon” than Facilier.
I'll admit to being perplexed when I saw the computer animation used at points in the attraction. I'm not a computer animation hater by any stretch (Pixar rocks!), but a big part of the Princess and the Frog's identity was its hand-drawn art. It's an odd choice. It might lend credence to the idea that they're trying to create a Princess and the Frog "universe." Is this preparing us for future projects with CG Tiana?
Oh, hahaha! You're right, it could be read that way. (I also think Newman is problematic (and obnoxious), so maybe that came across in the post).
And not just CG, but cheap looking CG, reminiscent of those old point and click games from the early 2000's. It's at a direct contract to the aesthetic of the animatronics (the nice ones, at least).
It's because the screens are meant to match the other 3D representations of the characters in the ride. You're meant to feel like you're in their world, and in their world they're not flat animations.
I would have never even considered that take away from those, honestly. That's interesting, but I would have never gotten that from those. Interesting.
It's not a very convincing attempt, but having Tiana's giant face on a screen in the Shrunken scene is meant to feel to the audience like she's "there", the way she's "there" when you go by her Animatronic, not like you're seeing her on a screen. In Tiana's world there are no screens. But it's a lot to ask of audiences these days - I'd say too much, even - to pretend they can't tell a screen is actually a screen. In basically every case it's at least somewhat obvious.
I mean, there are good points that have been made about the way he's represented in the movie having some issues.
Then they shouldn't have had you shrink down to frog size since there's no way to have Tiana in those scenes without screens. Personally I'd have founded another excuse to have us go into the Laughing Place then us being shrunk but that's what they chose. However the 3d animation does look off, in that scene.
They did not nail it at all, lol.
I semi-joking, semi-seriously think I'm going to start taking credit for Dr. Facilier not being in the ride because when they first announced the project, I pointed out (on this very message board) that Disney had just declared Trader Sam to be offensive because of his shrunken heads (which meant he had to go), so that meant Dr. Facilier had to be verboten, too. I was kidding at the time, of course, because everyone knows Disney makes this BS up as it goes along, but I'm starting to believe that's why the character was shunned.
