The music and the authentic scenes, food and characters were outstanding. The characters' accents were on target. I thought, like many others, that some of the scenes would scare my 5 yr. old; but, they didn't. I'm from New Orleans & have grown up knowing voodoo was practiced, but it didn't seem real to me, nor did it to my child. Except for the concentration on voodoo, the ambiance of New Orleans was capture. Good moral to the movie.