Constantly opts for contrived cheesiness, slathering on the cuteness with a trowel.
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09/19/04
Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
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Reviews Counted:111
Fresh:29
Rotten:82
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews bring charm and elegance to the movie, but there's not enough material for them to work with in this sequel.
Theatrical Release:15-10-2004
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... [More]
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Heather Matarazzo, John Rhys-Davies
Director: Garry Marshall
Reviews for Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
A chocolate-box sequel whose rose-tinted view of constitutional monarchy will provoke hoots of derision this side of the pond.
10/19/04
Top CriticUnlikely to appeal to anyone, regardless of their thoughts on the first film.
10/18/04
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10/30/04
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04/01/06
Top Critic[A] needless but charming sequel.
08/26/04
[It's] unfair to allow grown-ups to wander into this alleged comedy without letting them know a few things first. One, that small children will be bored. Two, that they will be bored. Three: that they will be bored. Four: Zzzzzzzzzzz...
08/11/04
Starts out rather awkwardly but succeeds almost in spite of itself.
08/11/04
Fans of the first Princess Diaries will find enough laughs and diamonds in the rough to sustain them.
08/13/04
Gentle fun.
08/11/04
It delivers the same bland adolescent fluff and feel-good family values its predecessor provided...This could get interesting--but it doesn't, not really.
08/12/04
So lame.
08/11/04
Ardent fans of the first film will be royally disappointed in Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.
08/11/04
The film's generic feminism pales beside its bloated sense of privilege, only underlined by a nonstop cabaret of sideshow acts.
08/11/04
Even the long-awaited Sound of Music coming from Julie Andrews is uninspiring.
08/16/04
Princess Diaries 2 charts the selfish quest of a 21-year-old American to have-it-all.
08/11/04
Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews again star and Garry Marshall returns as director; the only things missing are a script, a pulse, and a reason why.
08/11/04
Despite all the excessive overlays of set-design, costuming and sugary sweet sappiness, this sequel is a dead artifact.
08/15/04
Toy tiaras for orphans! (the first one's always free)...Another day, another dollar for Disney's lucrative business of breeding...ever-longing dream princesses.
08/19/04
Sure, the characters are very basic, the situation has been seen before and you can practically write the script from frame one. But that doesn’t stop it from working.
08/16/04
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