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We\u2019ve all heard of the knight saving the princess from a fire-breathing dragon, but Damsel aims to flip the traditional tale on its head.<\/p>\n
The feminist spin sees Millie Bobby Brown\u2019s damsel agree to marry a prince, only to find out she was recruited as a sacrifice to pay an ancient debt.<\/p>\n
After being thrown into a cave with a dragon, she sets about on an adventure to save herself rather than wait for a knight in shining armour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Damsel hits Netflix today for International Women’s Day and the reviews are out, awarding the fantasy movie a green splat on Rotten Tomatoes with 57 per cent positive at the time of writing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The major outlets in particular have not been kind to the Stranger Things star\u2019s new film.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Telegraph\u00a0 IGN<\/strong> Wall Street Journal However, some critics were kinder to Brown\u2019s Damsel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Daily Beast Digital Spy<\/strong> Damsel is streaming now on Netflix.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] We\u2019ve all heard of the knight saving the princess from a fire-breathing dragon, but Damsel aims to flip the traditional tale on its head. The feminist spin sees Millie Bobby Brown\u2019s damsel agree to marry a prince, only to find out she was recruited as a sacrifice to pay an ancient debt. After being …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[765],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>Millie Bobby Brown\u2019s girlboss revenge caper is atrocious. Rather than being any particular person\u2019s bright idea for a girlboss fantasy revenge caper, this lousy romp was obviously hatched by an algorithm, and might just as well have been directed by AI.<\/p>\n
A weak script and boring performances make the Netflix fantasy film Damsel a real slog, torpedoing its attempt to be a subversive spin on classic adventure tales.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>There\u2019s a credibility gap the size of Mount Dragon.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Has its heart in the right place but little else, starting out competently and then slowly falling apart with each clumsy step along its “Game of Thrones”-lite path.<\/p>\n
This subversion of the usual knight-saves-princess narrative is long overdue, even if Damsel doesn’t manage to avoid all the clich\u00e9s.<\/p>\n