Watched the "Damsel" movie, mostly because it was named "The Damsel and the Dragon" in the Russian cinema theatres. :drgn_blush_giggle: Sadly, there are no much dragon in the movie. The viewer will see some dragon-like shapes at the start of the movie, when the king and dumb knights were dumb enough to break into the lair to hunt the flying and living B-29 with toothpicks. Obviously, almost all of them died.
Then, the first 30-40 minutes of the movie are about some hooman things, like princess(es), some prince to marry to, etc. Then, finally (!) after that we will see some parts of the dragon. :drgn_aww: Thankfully, despite of not big enough CGI budget — most of action happens in the dark or foggy environment — the dragon was drawn good enough. It is a western-shaped, well-looking sentinent dragoness, able to speak in English. One minor flaw for me — the artists drawn a diagonal (?) pupils in the dragon's eyes. Looks strange, because predators usually have vertical or round pupils, as I know. But, I'm not a biologist and maybe this is ok :drgn_think:
The dragoness'es movement and other animation is pretty good, I can't say anything bad about it. The main plot also doesn't include the default trope "bad dragon and innocent hooman, who kills the dragon and celebrates a victory", despite the movie looks like that during first 40-50 minutes. But near the final it shows that it doesn't have "default plot" and the main character (one of the princesses) and the dragoness finally manage to made an agreement and kill all bad and wealthy morons, who fooled both of them.
Sadly, final scene doesn't fully reveals the story — where the dragoness fly alongside with pricensses ship? On the kingdom of the princess? But where the dragoness will live and what she will do, etc? :drgn_think:
