{"id":72792,"date":"2022-07-04T18:51:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T17:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/?p=72792"},"modified":"2022-07-04T18:51:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T17:51:55","slug":"the-princess-there-nothing-aristocratic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2022\/07\/04\/the-princess-there-nothing-aristocratic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Princess – There Is Nothing Aristocratic About This Princess"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“The Princess” opens with a jumble of familiar fairy tales. The title character, the princess (Joey King, “The Kissing Bell”), lies unconscious in a fancy dress, her wavy curls strewn across the pillow. Flowers surround her bed. But, unlike Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, she wakes up on her own and beats the hell out of two brutal guards. While this overture promises some kind of meaningful subversion, this film only asks one brave question, “What if a princess could kick your ass?”.<\/p>\n
The shrug-worthy answer – “Then she’d probably kick some ass, I suppose” – makes up the bulk of this perfunctory, plotless film.<\/p>\n
The sparse narrative from first-time screenwriters Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton goes like this: the princess wakes up in a tower. The princess is kidnapped by the evil nobleman Julius (Dominic Cooper, doing his best Karl Urban impersonation). The princess must slaughter a host of villains to avoid marriage to the abominable Julius and save her family.<\/p>\n
Joey King does indeed take down a lot of villains, and in the mix of CGI and confusing choreography there are some impressive stunt performances. But there’s basically nothing to see here – unless, of course, you find it in any way novel that an aristocratic Amazon is the protagonist of an action movie. Even in that case, I suggest you watch the eighties film Red Sonja instead.<\/p>\n
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Because for those who don’t live in a cave in 1980, female warriors are nothing new. Just in the last year there has been “The Black Widow”, “Raya and the Last Dragon”, the remake of “Justice League” and “Army of the Dead”. The idea that this is in any way a meaningful representation of women is laughable. Yes, women can be sporty and still be women. The fact that Hollywood often feels the need to prove this by casting female warriors with frizzy hair, make-up and dowdy clothes is more insulting than progressive.<\/p>\n