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Disney's The Princess and The Frog Soundtrack - Hear it in full online

Seeing as this is being released on Friday, I figured it'd be an appropriate time to post this. Check out the soundtrack, featuring Ne-Yo. Yep. Credit goes to ThinkTank Marketing for the following info.

Walt Disney Pictures' highly anticipated animated masterpiece, 'The Princess and the Frog' will have its official wide release this Friday, December 11th! In the meantime, everyone has been bumping the film's official soundtrack, which includes a lively collection of original songs and an orchestral score by Randy Newman, and Ne-Yo's romantic pop ballad, "Never Knew I Needed". Elton John, the man behind the award-winning soundtrack for 'The Lion King' has nothing but praise for Disney's decision to bring Newman on board for the film's music: "Randy Newman is, for me, an American treasure.... One of my favorite writers of all time, before he started writing for God knows how many animation movies with Pixar and Disney. This could be one of the best Disney scores ever, because I think he's fantastic." Chief Creative Officer for Pixar/Walt Disney Animation Studios, John Lasseter, also weighed about the significance of this particular soundtrack: "The songs in 'The Princess and the Frog' are so key to advancing the story, and also to really introducing the characters and learning about the characters; what they're about, what they want, what's inside them." Listen to a full online stream for 'The Princess and the Frog' Soundtrack right here: http://wdig.vo.llnwd.net/d1/walt_disney_records/PATF/Princess%20And%20The%20Frog%20Soundtrack.wma

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Kazed Blogs #4 - Why Disney/Pixar movies are so damn badass

So check it, last week I reviewed 'Up', and talked about Pixar's spawn who have evolved into these huge financial and critical successes, and it'd hard to understand why. Well, it isn't. It isn't hard to understand. Each of these films follow a formula; There's the protagonist, who has some sort of 'ultimate goal', if you will, get's into some sort of trouble, usually involves a side plot, which is usually resolved before the ultimate ending. Give or take a few things, but thats usually the general gist of a Pixar film. Now, granted, this formula is pretty straightforward, sort of, but it works. They have this unique ability to enthrall an audience of all ages, and make them all smile and laugh with joy. It's truly a magnificent sight, to watch a Disney Pixar film, it just amazes me to how many movies they can fork out of their chest of wonders, and still not manage to bomb any. Maybe after writing this they'll manage to make a substandard film, but, somehow, I highly doubt it. Let's look at some of the films - Wall-E: A great film, amazing though, considering it barely contains any lines in the entire movie, it still managed to communicate stunning emotion through just visuals, and the 2 words: "Waaaaaaaall-Eeeeeeeeee" and "Eeeeevvvvvvvvaaaaaaaa". Only negative I'll give this, is the cliché message about looking after the earth it uncovered at the end. Just..ugh. It was nice seeing the ending the way it ended, but it just seemed really cheap, imo. Up: I covered this with the review I did last week, just such a great piece of work, brilliant story, lovely characters, beautiful backstory, check out my review. Cars: No way as near as good as the other Pixar selection, but it was still enjoyable film nonetheless. Followed the formula, inspired concept, great idea with world of cars, just had a certain something lacking that the others so greatly embodied. Nice to have Owen Wilson in the mix though, made the film. The Incredibles: I remember watching this when it first came out, and I just thought it was a colossal achievement of immense proportions. Ok, so maybe it wasn't THAT good, but still worthy of being named as one of the better Pixar films. This film was quite possibly on the same level as Cars, maybe better, but they lacked the emotion that Up, Wall-E, Toy Story, and Monsters Inc to name a few, contained. Toy Story: There's not alot I can say about this that hasn't already been said, but the first Pixar film that started the extensive line-up of success stories, it will always remain in my heart, and I'm sure in millions of others' hearts, as the very film that encapsulated the spirit of Pixar, if you will. Just a complete masterpiece, a great story, wonderfully quirky characters which make us love Toy Story so much. As you all know, of course there are others, but I just thought highlighting these specific ones were necessary, because these were the ones which were significantly interesting to me. Cars, because of the talking Cars(Awesome), Up, because of it's emotional and sentimental value, The Indredibles, because it was a family of Superheroes, including a baby with powers, Toy Story, because it is THE Pixar film, and Wall-E, the film which contained like 20 lines, yet still managed to pull off an enormous 47 awards, and 80-something nominations. All brilliant films in their own right, Pixar continue to amaze me with their capability to encapsulate almost anyone with the awesomeness that is a Disney Pixar film. Kazed

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Disney Pixar's "Up" review

Went to watch this a couple of days ago, and it was everything I'd thought it'd be and more. Pixar just have this incomprehensible ability to produce films that are just incredibly captivating and emotional, it's unlike anything one can experience. Sure there'll be the odd minute or two of contemptible mediocrity(woah, big words), but I suppose that's what make these films what they are. My god, it boggles the mind as to how successful they've become. As far as I know, every single Pixar film have been both financially and critically successful. The only film that comes to mind that wasn't quite UP there(eh? eh?), but still equally entertaining, would have been Cars. I enjoyed that film alot, but it contained the least amount of emotional and sentimental content (I think I just found the topic of my next blog). Now, Up. Up was just a great film throughout. I enjoyed this film from start to finish, I found myself laughing quite a few times during, as did alot of the children that were in the screen room, but the point is, there were moments in it that, quite frankly, were effing hilarious. I have to say though, the start of the primary plot was maybe the darkest part of a Pixar film I have seen, the most 'adult', if you will(It'll be apparent when you watch). I thought it was such a nice touch, to add another level of maturity to the film, it just made it that much better. I mean, sure, some kids may not understand why there were tears, but this is exactly why the (Pixar)films, this one in particular, are for all walks of life. Is there anything bad about the movie? In all honesty, I honestly couldn't see one aspect of Up that was bad, I guess that means this is a perfect film. Yes? No. The Character design wasn't AS memorable as alot of the other Pixar spawn, and neither was the personality of alot of the characters. It took a while for the humour to come around, but all of that was a minor blemish on what was probably the best animated flick of this year. 9.5/10 Kazed & Dan.

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Four more Toy Story 3 posters

MySpace, Moviefone, Yahoo! Movies , Slashfilm, and ComingSoon.net have debuted four new posters, click the links for the rest of the posters. Thanks to FirstShowing.net for the news.

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Toy Story 1 3D review

Shouldn't have hyped this up so much, because the problem with that is, I shouldn't have hyped it up so much. Being my first actual 3D movie, I was pretty excited, and there were a number of differences between the 3D version and the original, there were little details that were pretty cool to see, like the phone on the  desk in the entrance of the house, there were little subtle changes, but none so big that it was worth the extra £2, but I suppose simply because it was Toy Story, and it was in 3D is what got me to buy the ticket. Now I've seen this, in "Digital 3D", it isn't a big deal. After about 30 minutes, I actually forgot I was watching a 3D film. No offence to the guys at Pixar, but they could've done a better job at this- There was nothing that really stood out (pun intended). Sure, it was cool seeing Buzz, and Woody, and the rest of the gang standing out from the background, and there were scenes that looked pretty impressive in 3D, such as seeing Pizza Planet, and when the dead toys rise from the sand, but to me, it gave the same effect 3D or not. I'm not being a Negative Nancy, I just think that it could have been way better, and they could have utilised the 3D much more effectively. So Toy Story, still the same charm it had 14 years ago , but 3D? Blegh, it's ok, just meh. 10/10 for the movie, 5.5/10 for the 3D Kazed.