The symbolism of having her wedding dress eventually evolve into battle attire is nicely done, but it feels a bit empty because the main character isn’t well-developed. There’s also no sense of tension, since it’s clear that she wears plot armour and will make it till the end of the movie.
There are some decent set pieces, like the princess and Linh’s fight scene in the kitchen, or when the princess takes down this super buff guy, but the effectiveness of these scenes get lost in the sheer barrage of fight scenes in the movie. His right hand woman Moira (Olga Kurylenko) is similarly evil and exists merely to be sadistic and loyal to Julius.
All the other characters are also saddled with barely any sense of characterisation. Why does she want to learn? To defend the kingdom? To prove that she’s worthy to be her father’s heir? There’s not much to the backstory besides training montages and Linh claiming that she has the heart of a warrior. When she was young, her mentor Linh (Veronica Ngo) taught her the basic skills, but that doesn’t explain why she continues to take these lessons. However, these flashbacks fail to give this warrior training any substance. We learn of her warrior training in flashbacks, so we understand why she’s so skilled with a blade and able to hold her own in a fight. In the meantime, the princess is wreaking havoc in the castle, taking down his men and sending them flying down the castle walls to their deaths. Why bother? He’s already taken the kingdom by force, I’m sure he can just make himself King at this point. At this point, he’s captured the entire royal family, and yet he’s still hung up with getting the princess to marry him.
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And while I love seeing a female protagonist kick ass, The Princess is just a series of fight sequences that get repetitive as the movie wears on - but I guess I shouldn’t have expected much from a movie that didn’t even bother to name its princess.Īfter her refusal to marry him, Julius (Dominic Cooper) becomes mad with rage and attacks the whole kingdom.
We’ve seen this in Moana, Raya and the Lost Dragon and Encanto. New Disney movies have been conscious to move away from the damsel in distress trope, giving us female characters with agency and not saddled with a love interest. As she awakes in a castle room, still reeling from the effects of whatever he drugged her with, we realise she’s the furthest thing from a damsel in distress. Joey King plays the titular princess, who refuses to marry her betrothed on their wedding day, and gets kidnapped by him as a result.
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