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?

  • Tamilas@reddthat.com
    32·
    10 months ago
    • 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
      • Mom Nom Mom@nom.momEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I almost suggested this one too - I’d put it on when my kids were babies, since they seemed to like it well enough, and I loved the movie and soundtrack

      • Adalast@lemmy.world
        9·
        10 months ago

        Ahem… “Prince Ali, fabulous he Ali Ababwa Genuflect, show some respect Down on one knee Now, try your best to stay calm Brush up your Sunday salaam Then come and meet his spectacular coterie Prince Ali, mighty is he Ali Ababwa Strong as ten regular men, definitely! He faced the galloping hordes A hundred bad guys with swords Who sent those goons to their lords Why, Prince Ali”

        Lol, Aladin is technically a “Prince” movie. For that matter, The Lion King is as well. I’m sure I could think of more, but I’m tired and should have been subsumed by slumber hours ago.

  • Syd@lemm.ee
    8·
    10 months ago

    Purple rain is probably the most famous, but they composed a crazy amount of soundtracks too.

  • MisterFeeny@kbin.social
    8·
    10 months ago

    Not a movie, rather a show, and also not complete yet, but The Dragon Prince on Netflix is pretty good. The titular prince is a dragon, but there are human princes as well, with one becoming a king actually pretty early on. And King Ezran absolutely tries to bring people together peacefully and with honorable intentions, though there is some action/fighting as well. Caveat, while it is a kids show, it might be thematically better for kids a bit older than 6, as some of the themes can be a bit dark for a kids show, but I’d just recommend you watch a couple eps yourself before showing it to the kiddo and decide for yourself if it’s appropriate.

    Also, someone else mentioned Avatar: The Last Airbender in this thread, which is also excellent, and if you happen to be familiar with that show, it has a lot of similiarities and it’s some of the same writers and directors of that show.

  • cartography_cat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    92·
    10 months ago

    I’ll add in a recommendation for Steven Universe, though it’s a show, not a movie. Interesting plot, great character development, no character-is-dumb tropes. Soundtrack is very cute, lots of original songs. It has a heavy focus on personal growth & relationships that is super refreshing for a kid’s show. It’s technically sci-fi, but of the flavor that feels very magic-y.

  • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    10 months ago

    The Road to El Dorado doesn’t have princes exactly and they’re not exactly on an honorable quest at first, but I think it still fits the bill in a weird way.

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    10 months ago

    How about Aladdin or The Emperor’s New Groove? In the former a beggar becomes a price, and in the latter a king learns to value humility and friendship.

  • Mom Nom Mom@nom.momEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    What about The Lion King? (I’d have to recommend the 1994 animated movie, but I haven’t seen the newer one)

    • Mom Nom Mom@nom.momEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I feel like watching him come of age while rebelling against his lot/role, going on that adventure to find himself is really important, whether he’s technically a prince at the time or not.

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • Thavron@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Not for long though. He got promoted after an unfortunate waterbuffalo incident.

  • Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu
    2·
    10 months ago

    Coming to America, the adult jokes flew right over my head when I was a kid but I really enjoyed the story.

    • rurutheguru@lemmings.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      Within the first 5 minutes of the film: visibly naked concubines serving the prince. concubine emerges from under the water “The royal penis is now clean”, implying she washed his royal jewels or sucked him off underwater.

      Yeah, disagreeing on this one. Not suitable for kids AT ALL… I was 9 when I first saw it. None of the adult jokes or scenes flew over my head.

  • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
    2·
    10 months ago

    Shrek. Not prince charming, but Shrek. He marries a princess to become a prince.

    Peter Pan, but he’s more figuratively a prince.

    I agree with the others, Aladdin and emperor’s new groove are good. Tarzan is king of the jungle in a way, but I haven’t seen the Disney version.

    The prince of Egypt.