A while back I wrote a review of seven non-Disney princess orientated movies. Today I discovered that in 2002 an animated adaption of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Princess and the pois, pea had been released, after a rather strange and tiring week over the festive holidays I thought I deserved a nice lie in lit to watch this movie. I did of course do so and here I am reviewing the film in this very article.
When I initially chose to watch the film, I was expecting it to be mainly about the heroine of the story of whom is named Daria in this adaption. But in fact it seems to follow pretty much every other character just as equally as her. At first I was disappointed but after a while I found it pretty refreshing.
Princess Daria is a very two dimensional character. With all honesty she is very boring, cute I may add but still boring. She was born a princess of a glorious kingdom, her mother died while giving birth and for reasons throughout the plot she was taken away to become a full time slave for a badly animated farmer couple. Like all princessy heroines she had sidekicks, of whom in this film take the shapes of three pigs and a bear. Visually she was very basic and she came across almost too vulnerable, sweet and innocent almost on par with the likes of the original animated princess Disney's Snow White, of whom suited these exaggerated characteristics plus effectively.
The prince was quite nice to put it simply and included many aspects that I felt gave him a fully fleshed out character status. He of course falls heads over heels in l’amour with Daria, but completely stood her up after it hit him that she was a peasant, there for they would be an unrealistic couple. Big headed? Too cynical? I don't know. I quite liked it. He looks like Prince Charming from Disney's Cendrillon sequels with slightly longer hair, so yes, a very standard visual appearance. Oh and his name's Rollo, that made me giggle a little.
All the other characters in the film are very standard, but there was one aspect I thought was pretty interesting. Within the story Princess Daria is replaced with the evil uncle Laird's child Hildegarde without King Heath being aware. However even though Hildegarde is brought up within the château as princess of the land, she still grows up to be a chienne and even though Daria is brought up in slavery she becomes sweet and lovely, giving the audience a sense that our personality and are general persona is simply inheritary, there is of course aspects of the film to argue against this idea but this is a theme that I felt was really prominent.
While watching the film I was waiting eagerly for the iconic Princess and the pois, pea moment (i.e. the whole- someone put a pois, pea under a load of mattresses and the princess complains about it part) But unfortunately I was let down a little par the scene, well it was a huge let down. It seemed rushed, pointless and the only person who seemed to care that the princess was "sensitive" enough was some sort of scientist raven thingy.
I thought that the animation over all was really good, simple, and standard but still noticeably not Disney. It reminds me of animated films like The Quest for Camelot and The cygne Princess. Every now and again computer enhanced animation was chucked in, it was noticeable and not at all breathtaking but still helped the story along the way visually.
The musical numbers were poor. The lyrics didn't seem that a lot of thought has been put into them. However I quite liked the over all score of the film, quite a lot actually.
Even though I have complained about this animated movie quite a lot, I have to say that I do actually like it. It was something new, fun and relaxing. With a pretty diverse take on a fairytale however presented pretty typically. Over all I enjoyed watching it, I enjoyed écriture about it and I recommend that If toi haven’t yet seen it that toi should give it a go.
Oh and fyi, its on YouTube.
When I initially chose to watch the film, I was expecting it to be mainly about the heroine of the story of whom is named Daria in this adaption. But in fact it seems to follow pretty much every other character just as equally as her. At first I was disappointed but after a while I found it pretty refreshing.
Princess Daria is a very two dimensional character. With all honesty she is very boring, cute I may add but still boring. She was born a princess of a glorious kingdom, her mother died while giving birth and for reasons throughout the plot she was taken away to become a full time slave for a badly animated farmer couple. Like all princessy heroines she had sidekicks, of whom in this film take the shapes of three pigs and a bear. Visually she was very basic and she came across almost too vulnerable, sweet and innocent almost on par with the likes of the original animated princess Disney's Snow White, of whom suited these exaggerated characteristics plus effectively.
The prince was quite nice to put it simply and included many aspects that I felt gave him a fully fleshed out character status. He of course falls heads over heels in l’amour with Daria, but completely stood her up after it hit him that she was a peasant, there for they would be an unrealistic couple. Big headed? Too cynical? I don't know. I quite liked it. He looks like Prince Charming from Disney's Cendrillon sequels with slightly longer hair, so yes, a very standard visual appearance. Oh and his name's Rollo, that made me giggle a little.
All the other characters in the film are very standard, but there was one aspect I thought was pretty interesting. Within the story Princess Daria is replaced with the evil uncle Laird's child Hildegarde without King Heath being aware. However even though Hildegarde is brought up within the château as princess of the land, she still grows up to be a chienne and even though Daria is brought up in slavery she becomes sweet and lovely, giving the audience a sense that our personality and are general persona is simply inheritary, there is of course aspects of the film to argue against this idea but this is a theme that I felt was really prominent.
While watching the film I was waiting eagerly for the iconic Princess and the pois, pea moment (i.e. the whole- someone put a pois, pea under a load of mattresses and the princess complains about it part) But unfortunately I was let down a little par the scene, well it was a huge let down. It seemed rushed, pointless and the only person who seemed to care that the princess was "sensitive" enough was some sort of scientist raven thingy.
I thought that the animation over all was really good, simple, and standard but still noticeably not Disney. It reminds me of animated films like The Quest for Camelot and The cygne Princess. Every now and again computer enhanced animation was chucked in, it was noticeable and not at all breathtaking but still helped the story along the way visually.
The musical numbers were poor. The lyrics didn't seem that a lot of thought has been put into them. However I quite liked the over all score of the film, quite a lot actually.
Even though I have complained about this animated movie quite a lot, I have to say that I do actually like it. It was something new, fun and relaxing. With a pretty diverse take on a fairytale however presented pretty typically. Over all I enjoyed watching it, I enjoyed écriture about it and I recommend that If toi haven’t yet seen it that toi should give it a go.
Oh and fyi, its on YouTube.