Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3110 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-02-21
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 109 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Okay, sure, 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 she'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

Synopsis
As a teenager, ugly duckling Mia (Anne Hathaway) learned that she was actually a princess. Now that the Princess has completed college in America, she is returning to her country, Genovia. Since Mia is turning 21, Queen Clarisse (Julie Andrews) plans to step down and give her granddaughter the throne. But evil Viscount Mabrey (Jonathan Rhys-Davies) believes his nephew is the rightful heir, and Parliament decides that Mia will have to abide by an age-old Genovian law: no Queen shall rule without a husband. Mia has just thirty days to marry if she is to retain the throne that her family has held for over 500 years. The kindhearted but clumsy princess also has to win over the Genovian people and survive the constant paparazzi. Although a charming Englishman (Callum Blue) seems to fit the arranged marriage bill, Mia also finds herself drawn to the very man that is vying for the throne, the dashing Nicholas (Chris Pine). But can she trust her foe's intentions

Customer Reviews

A Right Royal Mess
I watched this movie because I'm a huge Julie Andrews fan, the Princess Diaries books are a favourite guilty pleasure of mine (though I do think the joke has grown somewhat stale over the course of ten books) and although the first film wasn't brilliant, it was affable enough. This film, however, is a complete and utter waste of space. I can't believe it was actually a feature film that people paid money to see, the whole thing screams made-for-TV. Frankly, whoever wrote the script deserves to be shot, or at least banned from ever writing for the screen again.

The undisputed highlight is seeing Julie Andrews sing on screen again, but even that is ruined by making her duet with the hip hop star, which simply doesn't work. Anne Hathaway is incredibly irritating, one minute trying to be a benevolent, enlightened ruler, the next screaming her head off about having remote controlled drawers in her luxury suite and generally acting like a pampered rich girl. The depiction of the impossible to tell apart, eager to please servants is grotesquely unfunny, and even rather offensive.

I can't believe even the most sheltered and dim-witted ten year old could find this tripe entertaining. Off with their heads, the whole lot of them.

Good sequal
Okay, so this is absolutely NOTHING to do with the books. Change Mia's name and you have a totally different story. Still, it was a great film though, and definatly worth watching. I loved the romance in this one which was nice as there was hardly any in the first. I LOVE the matress surfing scene - it always makes me think 'I soooooooo wish I could do that!' I don't know which movie is better - i really like them both! All girls shoukld definatley watch this movie - just don't expect it to be like the books!

Chick Flick Princess - 15 yrs old

Good, fun film, with great actors and actresses
I enjoyed watching this, and have to admit that I bought it because I did enjoy parts of it, but I think that even though this film starts off well, from the slumber party on-wards, it becomes a bit wishy-washy and silly.

I do recommend it only as a fun film to watch when you need a some amusement. Once again Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway are wonderful actresses, and the settings are lovely. You just wish you could be Princess Mia with that great bedroom, and all those clothes!!

So, yes I would make the most of that wonderful price and buy it, but don't expect the boys to want to watch it with you!