Tiana (voiced beautifully by Noni Rose) is a hard-working girl in Depression-Era New Orleans. She’s working two jobs in an attempt to fulfil her father’s dream of opening up a restaurant to bring people together with food and music. But she was never expecting to meet a talking frog in the form of Prince Naveen (Campos) the layabout prince of Maldonia (I tried to look it up on a map, but I must have an old one).

Unfortunately she also has an encounter with some voodoo and the shadowy Shadow Man (David). Now Tiana and the Prince have to work together so they can both get what they truly desire before it’s too late and they croak their last croak.

It’s a new setting, with a new princess and Disney has once again come up trumps. This is a beautifully hand-drawn film filled with colour, humour and wonderful music. It doesn’t tread new ground but it does deliver the Disney magic that we have grown to know and love. Tiana is a strong character drawn from a modern generation, and all of her woodland friends are funny and charming.

A new classic from Disney.

Sin City is one of the many comic/graphic novel film adaptations of the last ten years that gives the genre a good name, and is acceptable to audiences outside of the fan boy mob. Along with the X-Men and Batman movies, Watchmen and Iron Man, they show that you don’t need to produce something substandard like V For Vendetta or Catwoman to bring these publications to the big screen. And whilst I’d argue that The Dark Knight is the best of the bunch, I’d say Sin City has the best production style.

Shot almost entirely on a digital back lot, Sin City tells three noir-ish tales involving inhabitants of Basin City; a town with a feverishly active, violent sub-culture. Clergy murder, cannibalism, heads sliced open, strippers with a heart of gold and a bod of lusty intentions, castration (twice!). It all happens right here.

The look of the movie is brilliant – the mostly black-and-white with splashes of appropriate colour make it seem like you’re watching a live-action version of the graphic novel. Jessica Alba has never been better in a film, Benicio del Toro and Clive Owen bring their best to their roles and, whilst The Wrestler is certainly his best role, this is the film that started the Mickey Rourke comeback. Then of course, there’s Carla Gugino. Mmmmmm, Carla… Sorry, got distracted there.

Sin City recently got voted by “Total Film” magazine as the Coolest Film of the Noughties, and rightly so. It’s a modern masterpiece, and shouldn’t be missed.