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FILMS & DVDs

Family fun By David DicksteinPublished: December, 2009

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• ‘The Princess and the Frog’ Opens Dec. 11 (limited in L.A. area on Nov. 25), rated G disney.go.com/disneypictures/princessandthefrog When a prince is turned into a frog and kissed by a girl, the curse is removed. Well, despite what the laws of Fairy Tale Land dictate, that’s not how things go in this rare 2-D, hand-drawn animated Disney feature. Here, the smooching girl is transformed into a frog as well. Set in New Orleans’ French Quarter during the Jazz Age of the Roaring Twenties, the film breaks ground by introducing Disney’s first black princess. • ‘Avatar’ Dec. 18, rated PG-13 avatarmovie.com Director-writer James “Titanic” Cameron’s $190 million hybrid of live action and animation follows a paraplegic war veteran who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people. • ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel’ Opens Dec. 25, rated PG munkyourself.com Bad reviews, including one from me, didn’t stop the feature debut of classic TV’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks” from storing $217 million for the nutty winter of 2007, and that’s just the U.S. total. Part II has Alvin, Simon and Theodore flirting with a trio of “chickmunks” while their human buddy, David (Orange-born Jason Lee), is laid up and aggravated by the antics of the rodent rascals. NEXT PAGE >>>

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