There are many different messages that have been sent out in the Disney princess movies. Not all of them are great things that we should be exposing to the younger generation. For example, in the movie The Little Mermaid, Ariel changes herself for love. Do we want elementary kids to think that you have to change yourself for love? Another example is Cinderella, where the prince thinks Cinderella is special, and stood out to him because of her outward beauty...a commonly known stereotype. Most of the stereotypes is Disney princess movies are not very positive. But lets face it, rarely any stereotypes are!
Looks are a important to making movies successful. Lots of movie makers think that people with piercing blue eyes is key. Long eyelashes and thick eye brows are what make someone more beautiful. Looks can even influence people on deciding weather a person is a good or bad/friendly or mean. Their appearance is what makes a persons first judgement, so it is important to make that person beautiful. Beautiful. That word can mean many things. In the television and film business, it mainly is deciding on the eye color, hair color, skin color, and body type (skinny/chubby). If you have all the Disney princesses lined up and you compare all of these things, you may start to see a pattern. For example, I took a picture of Elsa (Frozen), Merida (Brave) and Anna (Frozen). The all have pretty much the same eye color, and a dress that compliments their eye color. Though their hair may not be the same color, they all have subtle highlights. They are tannish pale and have rosy cheeks. If you look very closely, they all have subtle freckles on their noses and under the eyes. They are also skinny and petite.
Here is a picture of all the princesses lined up. You can see that each one is un-naturally skinny. This is a stereotype, saying that any princess must be skinny. If you also look at their hair length, each one's is pretty long. Again, saying something along the lines of princess must have long hair.