Directed by: Ron Clements, John Musker
This review contains a Cartoonish Kitty Carnage Warning!
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: A waitress named Tiana (voiced by Anika Noni Rose) dreams of owning her own restaurant, but a curse from a voodoo priest sidelines her plans.
Cartoon Cat: At the beginning of the film Tiana is a little girl (voiced by Elizabeth Dampier) sitting with her friend and her mother’s client Charlotte (voiced by Breanna Brooks). Tiana’s mother Eudora (voiced by Oprah Winfrey) is a seamstress and as she works on a fancy dress for Charlotte she reads the story of The Frog Prince to the girls. Charlotte is clutching her white kitten as she listens.
Cartoonish Kitty Carnage Warning! Charlotte is absently-mindedly rough with her kitten, whose name Marcel is not mentioned in the movie itself.
Poor Marcel suffers through more roughhousing and humiliation when Charlotte throws a frog mask over his head and tries to make Tiana kiss him.
Charlotte then hugs and kisses Marcel herself, leaving the poor frazzled kitten to leap to the ceiling and cling there (very similar to the way Claude cat did in the classic Warner Bros. cartoons).
Eudora tells the girls to stop tormenting the poor little kitty and pulls Marcel down from the ceiling, setting him on the floor. She pulls the frog mask off and a shaken Marcel slinks away.
Shortly after this Charlotte’s father enters and gives his daughter a puppy. The dog returns later in the film but Marcel is not seen again.
Final Mewsings: Never was a cat so happy to be replaced by a dog!
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