When referring to Walt Disney Animation Studio’s long filmography, most point to 2009’s The Princess and the Frog as the company’s final movie produced in its signature 2D animated style.
The New Orleans-set princess musical certainly follows in the aesthetic and narrative footsteps of Snow White, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, and other classic Disney movies, and it arrived right on the cusp of when the company made a definitive switch to the more contemporary 3D animation of Tangled, Frozen, and Moana.
Despite its reputation, though, The Princess and the Frog was actually just Disney’s second-to-last 2D animated feature.
The true final Disney film to endorse the 2D style hit theaters two years later, and although it never became an immense phenomenon, it served as a fitting bookend to the studio’s iconic tradition.
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