i was worried this was going to be another princess and the frog shenanigan where the black protagonist is a involuntarily turned into a nonhuman figure for the duration of the film to mask disney's anti-blackness. 

i was halfway right. you get to see joe again but then he is voiced by a white woman as a plot device while jamie foxx's soul is stuck in the body of a cat (a white one). it gets confusing, but i'm not…