If you want good quality animated films that feature female protagonists, I humbly recommend that you look at the works of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. I wouldn't call them feminist, but they do have female protagonists, compelling stories, wonderful production values, and don't seem to me to have the same kind of odious subtext that I perceive in most modern Disney projects.
Oh, and by and large, Miyazaki's heroines aren't Princesses either; in specific cases, they are "people of note" (Nausicaa), or even called Princess (Mononoke-Hime), but they don't really have the same kind of role-loading that the traditional western "so there's this girl who's a Princess" has, as far as I can tell.
Highly, highly, highly recommended for children and adults, and Disney's Region 1 releases on DVD are high-quality (thank heavens that Miyazaki struck the deal he did with Disney: basically saying, if you want any of my films, you'll be committing to releasing "them all", preserving their original theatrical aspect ratio, and their original audio track, where "them all" is probably a larger percentage of them than Disney would really have an interest in, strictly on the financials).
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Oh, and by and large, Miyazaki's heroines aren't Princesses either; in specific cases, they are "people of note" (Nausicaa), or even called Princess (Mononoke-Hime), but they don't really have the same kind of role-loading that the traditional western "so there's this girl who's a Princess" has, as far as I can tell.
Highly, highly, highly recommended for children and adults, and Disney's Region 1 releases on DVD are high-quality (thank heavens that Miyazaki struck the deal he did with Disney: basically saying, if you want any of my films, you'll be committing to releasing "them all", preserving their original theatrical aspect ratio, and their original audio track, where "them all" is probably a larger percentage of them than Disney would really have an interest in, strictly on the financials).