Starring the irresistible Anne Hathaway (ELLA ENCHANTED) and Academy Award(R) winner Julie Andrews (Best Actress, MARY POPPINS, 1964), this modern-day fairy tale picks up right where THE PRINCESS DIARIES left off! As future queen of Genovia, Princess Mia (Hathaway) has everything a girl could want — except the magical romance she’s always dreamed of. But soon, Mia’s shocked to discover that she needs to get married right now or her family will lose the crown! Comic complications rule the day in this delightful family story about finding out who you really are and discovering what it takes to make your dreams come true!If you’re a ten-year-old girl, this sequel to Disney’s 2001 hit will completely transfix you. How could it not? Bubbly Mia (Anne Hathaway), the American teenager who in the first film learned she was actually European royalty, finishes college and–whoosh!–heads off to Genovia, where he’s given a closet full of fabulous clothes and jewelry in preparation to rule the kingdom under the tutelage of grandmother Julie Andrews. Throw in a horse and a volatile but innocent romantic attraction to the dreamy young stud (Chris Pine) who’s also vying for the throne, and you have the kind of stuff that prepubescent girls rhapsodize about at slumber parties. Oh–and there’s a slumber party here, too, featuring a bevy of cute, international young princesses mattress-surfing down a giant slide. Resistance is futile. For the rest of us, though, director Garry Marshall has managed to make his Laverne & Shirley days seem positively Shakespearean in comparison. The movie is precious, padded (two hours!), and pandering twaddle; Andrews, in her role as Queen Mother, is even shoehorned into a faux-hip-hop duet with Disney Channel favorite Raven (one of many, many grueling moments intended to sell the soundtrack). Then the film takes a maddening left turn three-quarters of the way into the plot and decides that, despite all the preceding consumption and connubial fantasies to the contrary, it’s really about feminine emancipation. But don’t worry–what causes you to smack your forehead in frustration will go right over the heads of its hypnotized target market. –Steve Wiecking
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March 30, 2010
#1
I saw a behind-the-scenes clip for this movie, and I am OUTRAGED!! They’re going to make Mia get married! For all of the people who’ve read the Princess Diaries Books by Meg Cabot, you will Not be pleased! I mean, who gets married at 15 years old?!?! The sickos! And whatever happened to Michael? Though I will admit, it does look somewhat funny, but since it SO does not follow the true story line written in Cabot’s books, I think maybe they should change the title. Maybe to…A Royal Engagement: Sequal to The Princess Diaries MOVIE, NOT based on the Book by Meg Cabot!!! Ok, sorry about that…I just had to get that out, lol! Ok, I hope all the book & movie fans of The Princess Diaries found this review helpful, and I hope you still see the movie and enjoy it…when you do, though, maybe you should just pretend a book-story-line doesn’t exist for that day?
March 30, 2010
#2
I just want to say that I’m not mad that Robert (Schwartzman) Carmine isn’t back. I’m mad because the plot of this movie SO goes against Meg Cabbot’s books.
Not to be rude or anything, but why do these movies even share the same title as the books? It seriously makes NO sense. Ok, so the first movie was a lot different than the book, but not THIS different. I’m sorry, but this movie sounds like it’s going to be horrible. I’m not one to be bitter, but as a happy Rooney fan who discovered Robert Carmine from the first movie, it’s a bit annoying how they pressed the connection at the end of the movie, and then made a sequel without him. Obviously, I think it was Rob’s choice not to make an appearence in the film (and with the plot the way it is, I totally applaude him!). If you’re purely mad about Rob’s absence in the film, go buy Rooney’s cd.
(< - you'll recognize the garage band tune from the first movie as track 1 on it!). Still, I kinda wish they would have just STOPPED with the first movie. The prologue, while meant to make fans of Carmine's band happy, is dumb. Really dumb. 'OH! I think I'll concentrate on making my band famous while one of my best friends and love interests, (no, wait, we were never that!) is getting married and stuff!' Michael's character is totally wrecked. With the books, it's such a precious little Mia/Michael connection, and the movies just put the books to shame. Honestly! Mia trying to decided over 2 princes smitten with her.
It’s funny, because specifically in the first book, Mia recalls Lilly saying something anti-Disney. Yep, I’d have to agree with Lilly these days, especially with this film. Can we say MAJOR MONEY MAKER AT THE EXPENSE OF THE BOOKS??!
Do yourself a huge favor:
READ THE BOOKS. thanks.
March 30, 2010
#3
i liked this movie is was very funny alot funnier then the first one its about that amelia has to marry a guy in order to stay as a princess but if she marries him she`ll be quenn alot of comedy better then the first so when it comes out im gonna get it and you should too!
March 30, 2010
#4
Aside from introducing information that would have made the storylines of the books obsolete, this film fails to deliver as either a serious drama (yeah, right), a romantic comdey, or any form of comedy ast all. The humour is poor, at best, and the acting is remminicent of that of any badly-written teen movie. A let down for fans pf the book everywhere. Why bother?
March 30, 2010
#5
I am never one to be harsh. But I was bored at the movie. The same technique as the first. The same gags that made the first one hilaroius, but this time it wasn’t hilroius.
A girlish charm, this film is suited for the kiddies. The romance, that we would hope from Gary Marshall, was absolutly predicatable and “cheesy”. I loved the first film, I loved the novels, and am truely disappointed. Bringing in the old cast was a great idea, but didn’t follow through. I get a feeling there is going to be a third film in future, I will not sit through it. However, they should leave the script writing to the actaul author Meggin Cabot. What makes a sequal is the art to pull away from the original, and that simply was far from ever being accomplished. This is a good film to rent when it comes avaible. Disney should have made this movie one of those that came out strickly for DVD. Read the books, at least it educational to read something that is actaully funny and orginal.