‘Frog’ hopping

Disney’s latest animated musical, out now on DVD and Blu-ray, is one of firsts. The Princess and the Frog is the first traditional, hand-drawn film the studio has produced since 2004, when computer-generated animation took over in popularity and the company closed its 2-D department. The release also marks the first Disney feature to star an African-American protagonist, and the first to be set in a real-life city—that city being New Orleans. Set in the French Quarter during the Jazz Age, the film follows Tiana, a young woman who is convinced by a talking frog that he is indeed a prince trapped in an amphibian’s body. But instead of her kiss turning him back into his royal state, the peck has unintended consequences for Tiana herself. John Goodman, Terence Howard and Oprah Winfrey lend their voices, and Randy Newman provides the original score to this family-friendly Louisiana adventure. Rated G.