After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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!

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.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those guys that binds all chick films in the same category. Hey, I like "Bring it on", "Enchanted" and "Stardust", but this film stunk.The contrived script that tried to turn a reasonable box office success into a bland romantic comedy is dismal and is like a kind of royal version of pretty woman. Hey, wouldn't it be great, to have all that money and a palace and imagine what fun you could have with it? Blah blah blah! The male that is supposed to be cad she falls in love with is played without charm by Chris Pine, kills any kind of sympathy or like that one may have or his character and bearing in mind that she is supposed to be entering into an arranged marriage it kind of kills the charm that Anne Hathaway had in the first film.The comedy is handled with about as much skill as George Bush handling a doorknob. The romance is weak and in spite of the fact that Julie Andrews and Hector Elizonda handles their roles well, it is an uninspired and tragic affair that leaves one hoping that the Princess Diaries will now stop being written.

This movie is typical of the juvenilisation of Hollywood. True, it is a Disney film. But family oriented fare is what Walt produced, not unrealistic simple-minded politically-correct candy-floss.I didn't expect to see a realistic representation of a middle-European kingdom. But Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was far more accurate than this nonsense. There was no sense of realism, or place. The buildings weren't too bad, but the people were too obviously American. Worse, they were hamming it up in a uniquely American way. The antics of the royal guard were particularly ridiculous.The story was illogical. A princess doesn't become Queen just because she marries. The Queen, her grandmother, has to die or abdicate first. If the Queen couldn't marry because of the Law, why does her granddaughter have to marry because of it. Talk about plot inconsistencies! Film makers should learn to build their comedy and story lines within a realistic and consistent framework. A good film cannot result if the producers show contempt for the intelligence of the audiences, and assume all viewers have the brain of a four year old.