A cartoon is always obligated to raise the issue of viewing suitability with a responsible parent. This rule does not bypass any animated creation, whether it is widely known thanks to advertising, or recognizable only by its bright poster and the previous part. The latter include the new adventure of the frog princess and her friends.
Plot description
In a beautiful and peaceful nook of nature, where the streams are filled with clear transparent water, and the trees have grown to the sky, the frog kingdom is spread. Life went on in its calm course until the mystery of the crystal frog, an ancient artifact that supported the life of the kingdom for many centuries, surfaced. A group of dangerous bandits - "The Terrible Four" - led by the frog Odnoglazim went hunting for an artifact.
In defense of the relics, a detachment of frogs was sent, led by Rhine - Princess Jackie, who had fled before the wedding, who joins the squad without the consent of her king's father. It is clear that the king cannot leave his daughter in danger, and therefore sends his close frogs after her, who soon merge with the detachment of the main characters in one company of artifact rescuers. During the trip, the frogs will not only have to overcome the tricks of the One-eyed and his gang, but also pass through the endless desert, ice halls, fight the guard of the artifact, and, of course, thoroughly find out the relationship between themselves.
Genre component
The cartoon “The Frog Princess: The Secret of the Magic Room”, the description and reviews of which directly hint at the predominance of the children's family genre, was really created exclusively for the children's audience. Impurities of other stylistic features are also available here. In addition to children's orientation, “The Frog Princess: The Secret of the Magic Room”, according to spectators, has the following genres:
- comedy - easy Chinese humor in the dialogues, events and habits of frogs, sometimes understandable only to people accustomed to the eastern type of thinking;
- adventure - change events and turns in the cartoon more than enough;
- the action movie is too loud a genre for the cartoon, but you won’t throw anywhere from it unexpected shootings and the eternal pursuit of characters one after another.
However, if you take the animated film “The Princess Frog: The Secret of the Magic Room”, reviews used to the creations of Disney or DreamWorks, you can find that he is considered completely childish in terms of phrases and actions. Many citizens expressed their dissatisfaction with the presence in the cartoon of acts of covert violence or jokes with subtext for the population of category 18+.
The publication
If the cartoon premiered in the world on February 19, 2016, the Russian audience was able to evaluate it almost a year and a half later - on July 13, 2017. According to the cartoon “The Frog Princess: The Secret of the Magic Room”, reviews and ratings in the world received a rating value of 5.4 from 10 according to the version of the worldwide Internet meeting IMDb (the previous part of the cartoon 3.4 out of 10). And the Russian audience has to constantly change the outweighing of the scales, then in the positive, then for the worse.
The most common cartoon name in the world is Arctic Adventure: On Frozen Pond, which literally translates as "Arctic Journey: On a Frozen Pond." This name is not entirely justified, because after watching “The Frog Princess: The Secret of the Magic Room”, the cartoon reviews contain descriptions of Arctic and ice scenes only at the end of the cartoon, the rest of the time watching hints of the cold in the cartoon are completely absent.
Work on cartoon creation
The cartoon was produced in China under the patronage of two directors: Chan Guangxi and Peng Fei. The history of the first director’s works contains a 1987 short film “Variations of the Academy Head” and in 2000 a full-length drawn “Lotus Lantern”. There was no work in the direction of Peng Fei before, and he also worked as a screenwriter on the cartoon about frogs. The original voice acting in Mandarin, but outside of China, the cartoon was released with the voices of the actors:
- Anthony Padilla - Rain, in other translations - Freddy, who previously voiced Hal's green bird in Angry Birds in the Cinema.
- Ian Hackox - One-eyed, voiced the Orange Bubbles bird in "Angry Birds in the Cinema."
- Embier Childers, who has starred in roles in 27 films, is Princess Jackie.
- John Lovitz - Ababwa, voiced Quasimodo and the Phantom of the Opera in the cartoon series "Monsters on Vacation."
Sound Of Light soundtrack by Jesse Pruett.
Opinion of our viewer
Despite the fact that the work “The Frog Princess: The Secret of the Magic Room” is a cartoon, the reviews of the Russian population are full of negativity, as viewers expected something more from the animated film than a naive audience of six years and a bit older. Many were dissatisfied with the behavior of the characters on the screen, because the children, according to the parents, could be adversely affected by the constant efforts of the frogs to offend each other, take away valuable things, and many actions in this spirit, which promoted incorrect behavior for children in the future.
Nevertheless, on many network resources, the audience’s assessment kept a strict middle, which meant a pretty good result in the Russian-speaking space for a not-too-experienced group of cartoon creators. Be that as it may, the majority of viewers decided to dispense with silence regarding the animated work “The Frog Princess: The Secret of the Magic Room”. The reviews did not play a negative role in the attendance of the cartoon in cinemas, given the quality of its script and the minimum of accompanying advertising.
The pros and cons of the cartoon
It's no secret that in any creation of the cinema, you can find both negative and positive sides, and after reading reviews filled with negatives on sites about the “Princess Frog: The Secret of the Magic Room”, it is difficult to adequately assess the profitability of viewing the cartoon. For this, we can distinguish groups of minuses and pluses.
Negative points:
- for people who grew out of naive cartoons and love for bright running pictures - a frog story is not suitable;
- a few points are really similar to the 18+ category, which only an adult will notice;
- subtle oriental Chinese humor is not suitable for already held thinking people;
- a lot of rough turns in the script, insufficiently developed and boring dialogs for adults;
- strange behavior of characters in many scenes, exaggeration of emotions, inadequate reaction to each other;
- too many turns - it’s difficult to retell the cartoon as a story, this makes it unforgettable.
Positive points:
- bright, pretty beautiful animation;
- any acts of violence, such as shooting, fights or suffering from thirst, are well-veiled and do not crush inconsistency for the children's cartoon;
- the script is always ready to help the main characters - good wins;
- children's humor;
- the villains are not so angry that the child can be frightened of them;
- pleasant music.