Alaya Buller

While the idea of "damsel" was what caught my attention and made me excited for the film where the princess finally took the stereotype of a girl being fed to a dragon and flipped it on it's head, it wasn’t quite what I was expecting. I read the plugged in review and thought it would be a good watch. It started out like any Disney princess movie, but quickly turns into a sort of thriller. With the princess being sacrificed and running from the dragon in the dark cave and screaming constantly. With more screaming than actual lines or conversation. They show exceptional amounts of gore as people are being popped like balloons, slashed open, crushed, or burned to crisps while screaming ensues. There's bodies and remenants of people littering the cave while she explores it. I was waiting for the ending where the princess made friends with the dragon, they killed the evil queen, and she married the prince because he was still good. Meanwhile, instead, the solution seemed to be the genocide of the entire kingdom and royal bloodline. Killing the prince who repented, and all of the innocent people in the castle. She walks away from this scene in the typical blaze of glory as the castle falls. As if she didn't just commit mass murder. She'd also nearly killed the dragon in order to have a proper conversation with it, instead of merely telling the dragon the truth from the start and saving a lot of bloodshed. The first little while of the movie is happy-go-lucky. Except quickly following that, the majority of the film is the princess screaming, running, getting graphically wounded, and general gore and violence. The ending of course, is a massacre. While a lot of people enjoy this kind of film, and I'm not at all against it, it wasn’t quite what I was looking for. It is also good to note that it's not entirely family-friendly if a child is easily haunted by graphic images or thriller type scenes.