Answer:
It marked Disney's brief return to traditional animation, as it was the studio's first traditionally animated film since Home on the Range (2004). Co-directors Ron Clements and John Musker, directors of Disney's highly successful films The Little Mermaid (1989) and Aladdin (1992), returned to Disney to direct The Princess and the Frog.
Explanation:
I believe "the messages the piece communicates"
It is verbal irony where one says the opposite of what they mean hence sounding sarcastic.