SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary If one thing is certain, it is that Netflix's new movie Damsel starring Millie Bobby Brown is not getting the reviews it hoped for, which can be considered mixed at best. Damsel follows Elodie , a young woman in a "faraway land" who is arranged to marry the handsome Prince Henry , only for his family to sacrifice her to a vicious dragon.
Peter Travers argues that "Damsel really loses its juice in spending more than a hour of screen time watching Elodie try to outwit the dragon in caves so dim and desolate you can barely see anything." Yet since Elodie escaping being sacrificed is the main point of the movie, there is not a clear way for them to have avoided this problem other than restructuring the entire story.
However, even if one decides that Wright's role was worth the time, the consensus is that Damsel wastes the talents of Angela Bassett. Bassett plays Elodie's kind stepmother, who insists something is wrongwith Elodie's arranged marriage and is supposed to have a heartfelt storyline of becoming closer with her stepdaughter. In theory, this is another subversion of a classic fairytale trope.
4 Damsel Is A Rushed Book-To-Movie Adaptation Netflix jumped to make a movie version of the little-known Damsel novel. Close Damsel is based on the novel of the same name by Evelyn Skye, which was released barely a year ago. Maggie Lovitt argues that Netflix botched Damsel's ending, and its major themes: "In , Elodie and the dragon are one and the same.
Brown has been Netflix's favorite young star since she first appeared in her breakout role of Eleven in Stranger Things. She was subsequently cast as the leading woman in Netflix's movie adaptation of the Enola Holmes books, a franchise that works much better with its movies being released on a streaming service. Damsel had a lot to live up to; more than it could, with Brown being an icon of Netflix and her past properties with the streaming giant receiving great reviews.
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