Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

TheLittleSongbird Ranking the Cannon Movie Tale films, The Frog Prince is around top middle, with Hansel and Gretel being the best and The Emperor's New Clothes being the worst.The Frog Prince does suffer from budget limitations. The photography is nice, but some scenes are a little too dimly lit, the castle interiors and garden are rather ordinary and almost grim, the costumes are cheap-looking with the sole exception of Zora's blue dress at the end and Ribbit's make-up is somewhat unintentionally creepy. The film also suffers from stretching a particularly slight story that generally too thin to adapt for a feature length 90 minutes, actually it does do a surprisingly decent job expanding it but the story does feel too thin and stretched at times, pacing sometimes drags and a few scenes go on longer than they need to. Some of the dialogue is also stiff, like a lot of the dialogue at the start until Ribbit is introduced and with Henrietta.However, as said it is nicely photographed, The Cannon Movie Tale films were low-budget in production values (particularly in the costumes) but it never showed in the photography. The Frog Prince has a charming, whimsical and magically orchestrated score, that also has a little tension in some of the latter half, and the songs are surprisingly very pleasant (Friendship and the Music Box Waltz being particularly good). Not all the dialogue works, but Ribbit does have some adorably funny lines and the emotional moments are moving without being too corny or cloying. The execution of the story is similarly flawed, but it makes a clear effort to make much of little and it shows in a charming and sometimes poignant Beauty and the Beast-like take on the story, and there is a very sweet and tender between Zora and Ribbit.Aileen Quinn is immensely appealing as Zora, a more subtle and sympathetic performance than in her still great star-making turn in the title role of Annie (which is still one of my personal favourites), her singing has also come on a long way, here it's softer and more controlled and that she's older might have a lot to do with it. Clive Revill is a funny, occasionally stern and towards the end kindly king, and Helen Hunt makes the most of her visually pretty but actually very mean older sister role. John Paragon steals the show though, bringing to Ribbit a masculine charm, a warm and witty sense of humour, affecting melancholy and remarkable athleticism (especially when we are first introduced to him).In conclusion, has flaws but a solid attempt at adapting the story. 7/10 Bethany Cox

TxMike I recently saw Helen Hunt's newest movie "The Sessions", and on the eve of her turning 50 I was recalling when I first saw her. It was in the 1980s movie "Quarterback Princess." That one is not available on Netflix streaming movies but this one is. So even though it is not my usual target movie, it was fun.This is a children's musical, and as it began and young princess Zora began to sing I thought "She sounds as good as those young girls who played 'Annie' over the years." Imagine my surprise, a pleasant one, when I realized that former "Annie" star Aileen Quinn in fact plays Princess Zora. She is the younger sister, living in her uncle's castle, not sure she is pretty enough to be a princess. But one evening outside near the pond, when she drops her special metal ball into the water a Frog, big as a man, comes jumping out. He promises to retrieve her ball if she will promise to be his friend.Helen Hunt, in her early 20s, plays her mean, jealous older sister Henrietta. One evening she spots Zora and the Frog dancing, as he was instructing her on how to become a princess. So she manages to capture the Frog and imprison him in a pit, far away from the castle. As the ball was beginning, and the night one of the two sisters would be chosen Princess of the land, Zora manages to locate the Frog and free him. In the process she kissed him on the cheek, gave him a hug, and looked up to see he was no longer a Frog but a handsome Prince. They make it back to the ball together, just in time, and Zora is crowned Princess. John Paragon plays the Frog, Ribbit, in a great-looking costume, and as the movie ends has turned into the Prince Of Freedly.

hakyhiqz I really enjoyed this film, but i haven't seen it all. I was actually on holiday In Yemen when i saw this film. I was so bored and i thort thank god a good film is on. It was half way thru, but i watched it anyway. And it is my favourite film ever, it's so unique the way the girl is upset and how a frog comes to her rescue, buy being her friend and teaching her how to be a princess, and she is at war with her sister who is also competing to be a princess and she almost kills Ribbit i didn't like her i thought it was a very evil character. Mean while the help of a good princess friend finds him despite the fact she really wanted to be the princess, but her scheming sister didn't get in the way, in the end her and Ribbit the frog, made it just in time to water and shock her sisters eyes down and the Frog gets a welcoming true kiss from a real princess who turns him back to a prince, her sister wouldn't have known that because she wasn't a real princess.

ljs00b This movie is one of quite a few that were made into what are referred to as the Canon Movie Tales. They are all low budget and filmed primarily in Isreal, so I understand. If you want an idea of what to expect, it appears that someone took some of the little children's musicals that community theaters do and got some actors that people would want to see and then, with a very small budget, produced the best film they could. They are cute, sweet, and great for kids to watch. They are the precious little things that have a moral in the end. If you are an Aileen Quinn fan, this is the only movie other than Annie that she did, and it is adorable. She sings much better in this movie and her coloring (ie hair and makeup) are much more natural. This movie is very hard to find, but it is worth the effort of searching for if this is the kind of movie that you like. Also stars a very young (not to mention completely evil) Helen Hunt.