Comments | trista: Pretty Pretty Princesses.

trista

Pretty Pretty Princesses.

Nov 19, 2009 08:23

I am looking for movies, preferably princessy movies, that will appeal to a very smart three year old and that do not have a negative gender message. Brad's niece, Mo, and I have watched Enchanted about a squillion times, and while we both love it, I imagine she's going to get bored with it before too terribly long. I'd like to have something ( Read more... )

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fraises November 19 2009, 16:34:01 UTC

Penelope might be a little mature for her, but it's an adorable movie where the "princess" saves herself :) It's about a girl cursed with a pig's nose, and the only way to remove the curse is to be "loved by one of her own kind".

trista November 20 2009, 20:09:35 UTC

Oh, that sounds like fun. I'll have to find that and watch it before I show it to her, but having to pre-watch doesn't sound like a chore. :)

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cheryln November 19 2009, 18:18:00 UTC

Seconded on "Mulan" as far as Disney princesses. Also in the Disney vein, "Tinkerbell" surprisingly isn't that bad. (There's a new one that just came out that I haven't seen; I'm talking about one that's just called "Tinker Bell.") It's guilty of a lot of the same oversimplification as any Disney movie, but there's no sign of anyone rescuing Tink, and not even the slightest glimmer of a romantic interest.

trista November 20 2009, 20:13:27 UTC

Mo has a Tinkerbell movie, something about a treasure hunt, that I think is relatively recent. We started it the last time she was here and I was absolutely enchanted by it. I'll look for the one you mention, too. It sounds perfect.

Also? I've never really needed an excuse to indulge my love of fairy-tale type movies, but having a reason to find them rocks. Does Toni like this sort of thing?

cheryln November 23 2009, 13:17:19 UTC

Does Toni like that sort of thing?Uh, just a little. We went to Disney World a couple weeks ago, and as far as she was concerned we could pretty much have flown down for the princess breakfast and come right back ( ... )

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trista November 20 2009, 20:13:57 UTC

Sweet! You are full of the wonderful ideas, AmelieFishie. :)

wyliekat November 19 2009, 16:43:47 UTC

I don't have a movie suggestion, but The Paperbag Princess is a book that does the exact same job, and does it very directly and bluntly. Highly recommend it for princessly girl reading.

trista November 20 2009, 20:14:38 UTC

Oh, excellent! That'll go on my Christmas list for her. I love giving books as gifts, and it sounds exactly right.

wyliekat November 20 2009, 20:18:47 UTC

I'm thinking it would be. It's not a big book or a chapter book, but she's probably still at an age where this level of reading wouldn't be challenging, but satisfying.

trista November 20 2009, 20:33:26 UTC

And that's exactly what I'm looking for for her. I don't want to load her up with something that will seem like a chore to get through. I want her to have movies and stories that delight her.

the_xtina November 19 2009, 16:54:51 UTC

I went to track comments, and the track comments page gives me the option to track by tags. Your first tag? "14-year-old-hookercon". *snorts*

regyt mentioned to me that you might appreciate/get ideas from this post.

trista November 20 2009, 20:15:59 UTC

*giggle*

That was my post about going to an amusement park where every young teen girl I saw seemed to be dressed for a trollop-themed costume contest.

That post is fantastic. I did get a lot of great ideas from it and I've bookmarked it to go back to later, too.