"Princess" is a shocking and unsettling animated film from Denmark and built around many absurd contradictions. It’s an anti-exploitation film that is sometimes exploitative (the film includes real porn clips), and it is done in an animation style associated with children’s films, yet the plot is suitable only for adults with strong stomachs.

It played several times at the 2006 Chicago International Film Festival.

The film is an odd mixture of animation and live action. The combo is not quite as effective as the mix in "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" or "Sin City," but it is still captivating most of the time.

The paper thin plot is more reminiscent of ‘70s vigilante films such as "Death Wish," "Taxi Driver," and "Walking Tall" than any animated film that comes to mind.

A 30-year-old priest named August quits his profession after his sister, Princess, dies suddenly, and he adopts her precocious five-year-old daughter, Mia, who has obviously been damaged by the mom. Mia likes to pretend she is a prostitute with the local boys and it later comes out that she was molested.

The mother was a well known porn film star, and August blames the industry for her drug related death and for Mia’s corruption. He goes after the leaders of Paradise Lust, (the corporation distributing his sister’s films), and he starts gunning them down when they refuse to destroy all of Princess’s tapes.

By the end of this morally ambiguous film, viewers may question whether the puritanical sadist, August, is as bad as the people he’s torturing and killing. If the film has a moral it’s to practice moderation in all things.