The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

2004 "It can take a lifetime to find true love; she's got 30 days!"
5.8| 1h53m| G| en
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Mia Thermopolis is now a college graduate and on her way to Genovia to take up her duties as princess. Her best friend Lilly also joins her for the summer. Mia continues her 'princess lessons'- riding horses side-saddle, archery, and other royal. But her complicated life is turned upside down once again when she not only learns that she is to take the crown as queen earlier than expected...

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Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
viapetty Super disappointed that Lilly's brother Michael doesn't stay her love interest bc that was adorable :/
studioAT Never ones to miss an opportunity Disney were very quick to make this sequel after the surprise success of the first. I assume they also wanted to make it before Anne Hathaway got too old to play the role too.As with many a sequel, this one isn't as good as the original. That isn't to say it's not got it moments (Julie Andrews singing again is a huge one) but the plot feels a bit predictable. In fact it feels very similar to the plot of the earlier Disney film 'The Santa Clause 2', only with a Princess needing to find a husband rather than Santa finding a wife.The main selling point of this and the original is Anne Hathaway. I don't think there was ever a doubt that she would go on to bigger and better things. Her performance more than makes up for the slower parts of this film.
Dreamer241 I quite enjoyed the first Princess Diaries until I read the book. The original Mia is a passionate, thoughtful and interesting character. She is nowhere near similar to the candy floss airhead shown in the movies. I often enjoy rom-coms but this was never meant to be one. This was a story about a girl who is invisible because she is smart and cares about things other then hair and makeup. She wants to save the world and if she can't do that she can at least contribute to society.(I was not pleased with the last book, but let's look at the film.) This was a highly disappointing film which just repeated the same mistakes all 'girly' films do. The central message is supposed to be 'You can be anything you want to be, regardless of how pretty and attractive you are.' Yet it is contradicted by everything else. There was nothing funny or even original about it. I suppose if the film is aimed at a younger audience then it is understandable but even so there was no reason Mia couldn't have fallen in love with Prince Andrew. Why did she have to go for the typical bad boy figure. A lot of things weren't explained, where was Michel her boyfriend from the first film. Are we supposed to believe after all that crushing, he would just fade into the background. Overall, very poor.
wuvvie This movie lacks everything that was good about Princess Diaries 1 - a witty, honestly funny, smart storyline. They realized they could make a lot of money off of this movie, no matter what crap they put out there; this was the result.I suppose this film has its good moments, which are mostly romantic moments that I enjoyed. But the whole basis of the relationship was preposterous; Mia sure got rid of Michael quickly.I recommend this movie to little girls 11 or younger and who can't afford a more decent movie. To everyone else, skip it or find yourself rolling your eyes every 5 seconds into this cringe-inducing movie.