The White Witch from “The Chronicles of Narnia” stands seven feet tall.

Following my previous post about Princess and The Frog, now I want to give you the list of the characters and its dubbers… The information I got is from IMDB and Wikipedia, as well as its pictures

The first one is Anika Noni Rose. She is the voice of the newest princess from Disney Family, which is the first African American princess in Disney Princesses, Tiana. Rose defeated Jennifer Hudson and Tyra Banks to have this role. Well in the movie, Tiana is actually a 19-year-old waitress and aspiring chef who dreams of owning her own restaurant one day. Her fate changes when she meets a frog who’s asking to be kissed so he can change bank into a prince. Instead of finding a handsome prince, Tiana finds herself become a frog too.

Who is the ‘prince’ that has made Tiana into a frog? He is Prince Naveen. His voice is dubbed by Bruno Campos (we know him from Nip/Tuck the series). He is actually a prince who comes to the French Quarter for the jazz scene. Tiana and her best friend, Charlotte fall in love with him. But then he was cursed by Dr. Facilier into a frog.

Tiana’s best friend, Charlotte “Lottie” La Bouff, was voiced by Jennifer Cody. Like Tiana, Charlotte also wants to marry a prince and become a princess.

The evil from this movie which has cursed Prince Naveen is Doctor Facilier, which was voiced by Keith David (voice of Decepticon Barricade on Transformers the Video Game). He was originally named "Doctor Duvalier" and was a voodoo magician and fortune teller. He misled Naveen to make a deal that has transformed him into a frog (‘Green” for Dr. Facilier is frog, while for Naveen is money). As quoted from Wikipedia, Keith David described Facilier as “A schemer, a conjurer and a sorcerer of sorts.”

Like every other princess has, Tiana also has a ‘fairy Godmother’. She is Mama Odie, which was voiced by Jennifer Lewis. Mama Odie is a 197-year-old blind woman who knows voodoo. She also has a snake as her pet, called JuJu.

The other character who also helps the frogs is Ray, a firefly who is in love with Evening Star (Venus) because he thinks it’s another firefly. Ray helps Tiana and Naveen to meet Mama Odie. Ray was voiced by Jim Cummings, who is known as the voice of Winnie The Pooh and Tiger.

We also cannot forget Michael-Leon Wooley as Louis, an alligator who can sing jazz and play trumpet. You won’t be afraid if you meet Louis, because his only dream is to become a human and join a jazz band. Haha…

As a prince, Naveen also has a valet. He is Lawrence, who was voiced by Peter Bartlett.

Tiana’s mother, Eudora, was voiced by Oprah Winfrey (who doesn’t know her…).  Angela Bassett was originally rumored to be slated for the role.

Tiana’s father, James, was voiced by Terrence Howard (known from his role in Iron Man). He shares dream with his daughter, to have a restaurant of their own.

The young Tiana and Charlotte were voiced by Elizabeth Dampier and Breanna Brooks. They loved hearing the story of “The Frog Prince” from Eudora.

Besides all these actors and actresses, there are still some characters which are not mentioned here, such as Don Hall as the frog hunter, Darnell; Emeril Lagasse as Marlon, an alligator, John Goodman as Big Daddy La Bouff, the richest man; etc.

Don’t forget to buy "Princess and the Frog" the soundtrack . It was composed by Randy Newman, who have won a lot of awards for his works, such as in Toy Story, Monsters Inc., etc. Or feel free to cook like Tiana, follow her recipes in the cook book . You can also play the game. See other products below!

Do you still remember my previous post about The Newest Princess from Walt Disney?

Walt Disney Animation Studios presents the musical THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, an animated comedy set in the great city of New Orleans. From the creators of “The Little Mermaid” and “Aladdin” comes a modern twist on a classic tale, featuring a beautiful girl named Tiana (ANIKA NONI ROSE), a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again, and a fateful kiss that leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana. THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG marks the return to hand-drawn animation from the revered team of John Musker and Ron Clements, with music by Oscar®-winning composer Randy Newman.

It’s supposed to be played on theatres on your country now or soon… Tell us if you’ve watched it!

This is Corbin Bleu

 Corbin Blue is one of the characters from High School Musical. He was born in February 21st 1989 (happy belated birthday!!!). His father is David Reivers (an Jamaican American actor) and Martha (Italian American). Before he became famous by playing as Chad on High School Musical, Corbin started his career when he was two years old by playing at a TV commercial.

From all movies he has starred, Corbin like “Jump In! ” the most as Izzy Daniels. He likes Jump In! the most because in this movie, he’s playing with his own father, David Reivers. Jump In is a movie which is played in Disney Channel (premiered January 12, 2007), about a boy who has a father who wants him to be a boxer, but the boy wants to do another thing. He wants to help his friends to join Double Dutch.  So Izzy has to choose between his father’s wish to make him a great boxer, or his own wish to be a rope jumper champion.

Corbin has also had a solo album called “Another Side ”. In 2009, he will launch his 2nd album. His songs are listed below:

• Deal With It – 3:04
• Stop – 3:24
• Roll With You – 2:59
• She Could Be – 3:26
• I Get Lonely – 3:35
• We Come To Party – 3:04
• Mixed Up – 2:54
• Still There For Me (feat. Vanessa Hudgens) – 3:39
• Marchin’ – 3:02
• Never Met a Girl Like You – 3:40
• Homework (feat. JKing) – 2:58
• Push It to the Limit (Soundtrack of Jump In!) – 3:14

Bonus Tracks

• If She Says Yeah – 3:57
• Shake it Off – 4:06

You will not believe it, but trust me. His house is full of many kind of animals and animal posters. Corbin is a true animal lover.

In his spare time, Corbin loves practicing his boxing, listening to some music, or hanging out with his friends.

If you are curious about Corbin’s hair secret, don’t worry, I will tell you. He whacks his hair everyday, without using his fingers or even a comb! (Do you want to try it?)

Corbin never spends his time without music. He always brings his iPod. If he doesn’t bring his iPod, he will whistle every single day.

Here below I give you the list of Corbin’s films.

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Soldier Beach Movies	Johnny Kid	appearance
1999	Family Tree Mystery Men Galaxy Quest	Ricky Butch Young Tommy	main role appearance
2004	Catch That Kid	Austin	main role
2006	High School Musical	Chad Danforth	Disney Channel
2007	Flight 29 Down: The Hotel Tango Jump In! High School Musical 2	Nathan McHugh Isadore “Izzy” Daniels Chad Danforth	Showcase Disney Channel Disney Channel
2008	High School Musical 3: Senior Year	Chad Danforth	1st HSM in theatres
2009	Free Style	Cale Bryant	Main Role

Below I share Corbin’s wallpaper I got from the web. Enjoy!

  Although it had six nominations for Oscar, an Pixar-Walt Disney animation Wall-E had won an Oscar for “Best Animated Film”. It was also nominated for Original Score, Original Song, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Original Screenplay.

Wall-E , like I’ve discussed before here, is an animation created by Pixar Studio and Walt Disney Production in 2008. It doesn’t have many dialogues, but still, it’s interesting to watch. The story is fresh and it’s showing us how our Earth will be if we keep making it dirty. Wall-E is a robot which has to clean our Earth so human will be able to live in it again.

One thing I remember from Wall-E is M-O, the robot whose duty is to make sure everything is clean in Axiom (the space ship where people from Earth live). M-O is Microbe Obliterator, which obsess to clean the ship and inspects incoming shipments. Every time M-O sees Wall-E, he always makes Wall-E clean. Wall-E dirty trail (because he is from our dirty Earth) always makes M-O upset, but he still cleans it. I love him! One thing interesting about Wall-E and M-O, they have same person to be their voice. Benn Burtt voiced Wall-E and M-O.

I feel pity that Wall-E didn’t get all the Oscars, but at least it won one. Besides Wall-E, Walt Disney was also nominated for Bolt. It is not 3D animation, but 2D animation with John Travolta and Miley Cyrus as Bolt and Penny.

Some interesting things related to Wall-E and friends

When we are watching Cinderella, we can see that Cinderella is dancing with the Prince at the ball. When they are dancing, the world seems to be like theirs. The situation is very romantic of course. This is the moment where they realize that they are meant to be together. They are dancing accompanied by the song, So This is Love.

It’s very romantic, of course, accompanied by the beautiful voices from Cinderella (Illene Woods) and the Prince. I’m sure you’ll love it…

Enjoy…

So This is Love
ost. Cinderella

So this is love, Mmmmmm
So this is love
So this is what makes life divine
I’m all aglow, Mmmmmm
And now I know
The key to all heaven is mine
My heart has wings, Mmmmmm
And I can fly
I’ll touch ev’ry star in the sky
So this is the miracle that I’ve been dreaming of
Mmmmmm
Mmmmmm
So this is love

On my childhood, I remember that I always love to watch movie about Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, etc. I remember, although at that time I only watch the pictures and didn’t understand about the whole story, I love to watch the characters. But most of all, I love to hear the song. The one which makees Wlat Disney’s movies different is because the songs, how they mix it to the story and becomes a wonderful musical animation. Unfortunately, nowadays, it is very rare to find the musical animation again. That’s why I love Enchanted, the movie which has a lot of beautiful songs.

Picture above is the first official image of Princess Tiana from Disney’s upcoming The Princess and the Frog. Click on the picture to get the larger size.

Walt Disney will add new member to the list of Disney Princess (along with Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Ariel "Little MCermaid", etc). On this movie, Walt Disney decided to return to traditional animated musicals and fairy tales (What I really love). It will arrive in theatres on Christmas 2009.

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Directors: Ron Clements and John Musker
Writers: Ron Clement and Rob Edwards
Release Date: 25 December 2009 (USA)

Plot:

A fairy tale centered on a young girl named Princess Tiana who lives in New Orleans’ French Quarter during the Jazz Age.

Dubbers:

• John Goodman -> Louis
• Keith David -> Dr. Facillier
• Angela Bassett -> Eudora
• Jim Cummings -> Ray
• Jenifer Lewis -> Mama Odie
• Anika Noni Rose -> Princess Tiana
• Bruno Campos -> Prince Naveen
• Michael-Leon Wooley -> Louis
• Peter Bartlett -> Lawrence
• Ritchie Montgomery -> Reggie
• Jennifer Cody -? Charlotte LaBouff

I can’t wait to watch it

Dumbo

Directed by: Ben Sharpsteen
Produced by: Walt Disney
First released: October 23, 1941
Duration: 63.5 minutes
Characters: Dumbo, Mrs. Jumbo, Timothy Mouse, elephants in the circus, Jim Crow
Written by:
Helen Aberson & Harold Perl (book), Otto Englander (story direction)
Dubbers: Edward Brophy, Herman Bing, Margaret Wright, Sterling Holloway, Cliff Edwards
Music by: Frank Churcill and Lance Husher

When talking about Mother, I have mentioned about this movie. I’ve told you before, that this movie shows the love between mother and her children. Now it i time for me to tell you more about it.

About the Movie (SPOILER WARNING!!!)

In a circus, every mother from all kind of animals is waiting for a baby which is delivered by a stork. A mother elephant is waiting impatiently. Every mother in the zoo has got her baby, but not Mrs. Jumbo. Lately, it is found that the stork who is assigned to deliver Mrs. Jumbo’s baby was late. Mrs. Jumbo loves her baby and this little baby is accepted by other elephants in the circus at first. But then, by the time he grows, the little elephant also has oversize growing in his ears. So other elephants call him Dumbo, because of his long ears.

That big long ears always makes Dumbo fall, because he often step on his own ears. One day, in the circus promotion parade, it happens and Dumbo lands in a puddle and everybody is laughing at him (poor Dumbo…). Mrs. Jumbo is mad because everyone is mocking Dumbo. Then it makes her be considered as mad elephant, and caged.

Fortunately, in his mourn because having to live alone without his mother, Dumbo gets a new friend, a mouse name Timothy. Timothy often cheers up Dumbo during his work as clown in the circus, defending him against the other elephants, etc. Although the circus audiences love him, deep inside his heart Dumbo hates his job and really misses his mother. Timothy then brings Dumbo to visit Mrs. Jumbo in the prison. Mrs. Jumbo can only swing Dumbo in her trunk, without looking her baby boy. It was stated by Pixar’s John Lasseter that this scene is one of the most emotional scenes that Disney ever made. (I agree with him!!! I always cry when watching this scene!!) Dumbo cries in his mother’s ‘arms’ (aka trunk) while Mrs. Jumbo is singing Baby Mine (was taken from Dumbo original soundtrack) for him.

  Dumbo’s cries then make him hiccup. Timothy tries to cure him, by telling him to drink water from a bucket, without knowing that the clown has accidentally put a bottle of beer in it. Dumbo and Timothy are drunk. The next morning, they wake up because of the sounds from a group of crows, led by Jim Crow. They find out that they are in a tree!!! Timothy feels strange how they can be in a tree, and the crows are laughing at them and saying that perhaps Dumbo’s ears is the cause by singing "When I See an Elephant Fly". Timothy tells them about Dumbo and how he is being separated with his mom. Jim Crow feels pity for them and finally he cheers Dumbo, telling him that he is a special elephant, because his ears can make him fly. He gives a feather to Dumbo, telling him that is a magic feather. It will make Dumbo fly by holding the feather with his trunk. And yes, Dumbo is able to fly with the magic feather! Soon, Dumbo becomes a star of the circus.

One day, during the show, Dumbo drops the feather. Dumbo is panic, and thinking that he will fall. But Timothy says to him that the feather is not magical, and Dumbo is really able to fly by himself. In the end,Dumbo realizes that his confidence (and God’s blessings, off course) which makes him fly. The closing is ended with the scene about Dumbo who can fly without the feather and he can meet his mother again…

FUN FACTS

• This movie was taken from a children book entitled Dumbo by Helen Aberson and was drawn by Harold Perl.
• The movie was made in low budget, it was only a half of Snow White. However, Dumbo becomes one of Walt Disney movies which produced big money.
• At first, Time Magazine, one of famous magazines in US, wanted to have Dumbo as its cover. But then they considered the event when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor was more interesting than this cute elephant.
• This movie won Best Animation Movie in Cannes Film Festival in 1947.

Hooray, Dumbo!!!

Believe in yourself, I think that is the moral lesson from Dumbo. Never gives up when something troubled you. You will always have a friend who will accompany you through all problems, like Timothy does. And for me, I know I have my best friends to be with me… And remember to tell your children to be Dumbo on Halloween… It’s very cute!!!

First published: November 13, 1940
Duration: 120 minutes
Parts in the movies:
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, The Nutcracker Suite, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Rite of Spring, "Pastoral" symphony, Dance of the Hour, Night on Bald Mountain

ABOUT THE MOVIE

This movie is an unusual movie which was produced by Walt Disney. Why? It was said so because it showed something beyond anything that time. In 1940s, the new movie industry had just appeared, which caused the movie produced were the movies with simple plot.

Having a animation movie in the cinemas (like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) were a superb thing, that’s what made Fantasia different, because it combines animation and music. At first, there were many people who considered it strange and extraordinary. But time after time, following technology improvement, people could see the greatness of Walt Disney who had thought forward at that time.

Fantasia consists of some stories. Most of it are the combination between music and the description of it in an animation. The music genre which is used in Fantasia is classical music.

One of what becomes popular in Fantasia is the story entitled "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice". In this story, we can see Mickey Mouse who is learning to become a sorcerer. One day, the sorcerer leaves his house and at the same time, Mickey screws up with the magical tools at that house.

FUN FACTS

• In "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice", Mickey Mouse’s teacher is a sorcerer named Yen Sid. If we spell that name backward, it becomes Disney.
• The classic music which are used in Fantasia are the works from some great world composers, such as Johann Sebastian Bach (in Toccata and Fugue in D Minor), Tchaikowsky (in The Nutcracker Suite), and Beethoven (in Pastoral Symphony).
• At the time when Fantasia was released, New York Times, a famous newspaper, called it as an "earthquake" to describe how great the effect of Fantasia to movie industry.

It has passed, I know… But while writing this blog, I am watching Hannah Montana at Disney Channel. So I recall the 3D concert which I watched about couple weeks ago in Disney Channel.

I was looking forward to watch this since I watched the commercial for the first time. I had lost my 3D glasses, so that time I had to search for the new 3D glasses. Fortunately, my boyfriend was given a pair of 3D glasses by his friends :D, so I could watch it with my boyfriend.

But then, when the show was started, I was disappointed.. I don’t know… The show became blur… I couldn’t see the 3D sensation… The show became in two colors, only blue and red. Was my glasses bad? Or everyone experienced the same thing with me? Please tell me…

For those who wants to watch Hannah Montana Best of the Both Worlds 3D Concert, you can see it in Blu-Ray or DVD. (don’t forget the 3D Glasses!

I love Hannah Montana, but I hate her 3D concert which I watched in Disney Channel…