Borgarkeri
A bit overrated, but still an amazing film
DubyaHan
The movie is wildly uneven but lively and timely - in its own surreal way
Claire Dunne
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Desertman84
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement is the sequel of The Princess Diaries.It has most of the cast return such as Julie Andrews as Queen Clarisse and Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis together with Héctor Elizondo and Heather Matarazzo; as well as the director of the first film,Garry Marshall.Appearing for the first time in the franchise it Chris Pine,John Rhys-Davies and Callum Blue.In the sequel,Mia has become a full-fledge princess at Genovia.She is now to crowned as Queen but apparently she needs to get married first before it could happen.This is where things get complicated as she is engaged to someone whom she is not really attracted to and wants to become with someone she really is in love with.But in the end,everything predictably ends when Mia gets crowned and ends up with someone that she is truly in love with.It would have been better if Princess Diaries ended in the first film as there is nothing really to work with in the sequel.This would probably be for young girls but obviously marriage is something that many of them have not given a serious thought about it yet.While it was good to see Anne Hathaway once again as Mia,I felt that there is nothing more left as far as her character is concerned after the first film.But nevertheless,it was still clean and fun fairy tale as far as the sequel is concerned.
Jackson Booth-Millard
I decided to try the first one from Disney as I had heard a relative amount about it, and then I saw there was a sequel with a lower rating, so I tried that too, from director Garry Marshall (Pretty Woman). Basically Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) has settled into her new life as Princess of Genovia, living in the kingdom with her grandmother Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Dame Julie Andrews). It is a tradition that the Princess should marry in order to take that crown and lead the country, this is what the mean Viscount Mabrey (John Rhys-Davies). He is sure he can get Mia to fall in love with and marry his nephew Nicholas Devereaux (Chris Pine), even when she is already engaged to boring but good-looking Andrew Jacoby (Callum Blue). Thirty days is the amount of time Mia has to decide what to do, and when she does initially decide to marry Callum, on the day, she may have second thoughts. In the end, with the Queen's permission, and the support of others in the crowd, Mia decides not to marry, and this will be that will be the future for any Princess. Also starring Hector Elizondo as Joe, Heather Matarazzo as Lilly Moscovitz Kathleen Marshall as Charlotte Kutaway, Tom Poston as Lord Palimore and The Nutty Professor's Larry Miller as Paolo. Hathaway is still reasonably charming and amusing in parts, and Andrews is still a dignified and regal support, it's just what they've been made to do that's the problem. The film is too slow and long to be the same sort of comedy as the predecessor, and the story is flat and uninteresting to care about, I dozed off three times during it, a silly sequel. Adequate!
el_bock
This movie is probably one of the worst i've seen all year...Except for having one of the most predicable and uninteresting story lines of any movie i've ever seen, it gives me chills to think, that this is actually what some, and after the making of this movie even more, people think that life in Europe is like. More than that though this movie is also pretty much a commercial for abolishing monarchy, in that it portrays the system and its supporters as either idiotic or evil, While I personally don't really care as long as a system of government has freedom guaranteed for it's citizens, this movie says to me that its a bad system as long as its not the one the Americans use.And While I realize this is a movie and should be regarded as such, a fictional story, I find it to be too close to reality to not be closer lest it be an open insult to anyone who ever took a European history or politics course.You can hate me for saying so but that is what i feel.
polar24
More from Ms Hathaway and Ms Poppins as the newly crowned Princess Mia travels to Genovia to fulfill all the roles of royal domestication and to achieve every princess's dream - to get married! This is really an add-on to the 2001 film with more cake-icing sets, ravishing costume changes, and dilemmas of love and politics, all set to a funky dance soundtrack.Mia's school sweetheart has been replaced by two dashing handsome men. One the heir and future prince of Genovia and the other, her irresistible love-to-hate nephew. The love triangle forms the main obstacle in the film for Mia and so this sequel plays more like a guilty pleasure for fans of the first film than the coming-of-age story it could have been.The female leads are once again so much fun to be around and lovely to watch on screen. Even more charming than her male suiters, Hathaway is a knockout, and looks exquisitely ravishing in each scene. I was swept away by the sparking chateaus and glistening make-up, but must say the believability factor was definitely pushing the line in this episode.I admit that despite my animosity at this puff-pastry of a sequel, I still had lots of fun with it, and it shouldn't stop you from having a really enjoyable daydream for a few hours. The sets, costumes and main star are all gorgeous to behold thanks to the high production values, For the most part, a pleasure for the eyes and a charming, enchanting yet predictable bubble-bath of a fairytale.
