Are there any prince movies for kids?

Rukmer@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 119 points –

Anyone who knows about kids' movies knows how popular princess movies are, especially Disney princesses. My child is six and absolutely loves them too. My child also loves princes and kings, but I'm having a hard time finding anything that features a character as easily beloved as Elsa or Moana for example. Even worse, a lot of the times male characters are just antagonists or at least stand in the way of the princess. I'd love to see a movie with a young prince who isn't evil or dumb (as a joke) that kids can relate to. I think it also be cool if there was singing or magic or anything mystical. My kid kind of likes Shrek but I was hoping to find one about a human prince. The protagonist in the movie The Lorax is a young boy on a good mission, and we like that movie too, but we're just looking for something bigger. I'm not looking for a movie that's primarily fighting, a little is okay, but I'd really prefer if the main focus was some honorable endeavor. Am I just missing the prince movies, or are they all about princesses instead?

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  • Hercules

  • Aladdin

  • Jungle book

  • How to train your dragon

  • Sword in the stone

  • Robin hood

  • Emperor's new groove

  • Lion king

  • Treasure planet (not a prince but hes pretty cool!)

  • Peter Pan (Also Hook - not animated but awesome)

  • Tarzan

  • Shrek

Princess films do dominate but the male characters can be highlighted too,

  • Prince phillip in sleeping beauty is pretty cool and defeats a dragon
  • Kristoph from Frozen is funny and smart, resourceful etc.
  • Flynn from Tangled is decent, eventually

Flynn has no redeeming qualities. He just confessed to a teenager.

I do like that movie though. The mother in Tangled is actually a good way to teach kids some important lessons about abusive relationships without being super dark. She demonstrates over-defensiveness, love-bombing, gaslighting, etc.

It was a way to teach my kids about how you can lie even though every word you say is true. If you listen to the mother, pretty much everything she says is technically true, but in almost every line she has, she is being deceptive.

Flynn has no redeeming qualities. He just confessed to a teenager

Haha, yeah fair enough. Maybe I was just won over by his hair... which is really saying something, given the movie.

Agreed, the mother is an excellent villain all round.

Peter Pan's pretty racist, I'd leave that one out.

Definitely don't leave it out, use it as a teaching moment instead. Blinding kids to racism doesn't help them become good people. Talking through those moment with them is what does.

Because of the red indian scenes right? Are there more occurences or just that part ("why does the red man say how")?