Lisa Schwarzbaum of "Entertainment Weekly" gave the film an "A" grade and applauded the film's creative team for "uphold the great tradition of classic Disney animation". Kirk Honeycutt of "The Hollywood Reporter" praised Walt Disney Animation for "rediscovering its traditional hand-drawn animation" and for "a thing called story". David Germain of the "Associated Press" wrote that ""The Princess and the Frog" is not the second coming of "Beauty and the Beast" or "The Lion King". It's just plain pleasant, an old-fashioned little charmer that's not straining to be the next glib animated compendium of pop-culture flotsam."