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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 3979
Released: December 14, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Starring the irresistible Anne Hathaway (ELLA ENCHANTED) and Academy Award(R) winner Julie Andrews (Best Actress, MARY POPPINS, 1964), this modern-day fairy tale picks up right where THE PRINCESS DIARIES left off! As future queen of Genovia, Princess Mia (Hathaway) has everything a girl could want -- except the magical romance she's always dreamed of. But soon, Mia's shocked to discover that she needs to get married right now or her family will lose the crown! Comic complications rule the day in this delightful family story about finding out who you really are and discovering what it takes to make your dreams come true!
Description of The Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement (Full Screen Edition):
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 he'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
The Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement (Full Screen Edition) Reviews:
Wonderful 
2009-09-17 - Quick delivery and excellent condition. My 7 year old daughter has already watched it 10 times.
great service 
2009-09-15 - The DVD was in good condition when I received the package. It also arrived very quickly. I will definitely recommend this seller.
...a truly royal engagement
2009-07-18 - Unlike most sequels, this movie has enough of a different plot to be a nearly stand-alone movie. The characters are all believable enough to get lost in the story, and everything makes enough sense so older audiences aren't disappointed to have to "sit through" this movie.
Even though it is a Disney movie, and a "family film," this seems a lot more like a romantic comedy than anything. Fans of romcoms will be very pleased with everything except for some of the Raven-Simone parts of this movie. They are definitely the parts geared primarily for the younger viewers.
All in all, the movie is almost as good as the first one, but nowhere near as bad as most sequels are.
Princess Diaries 2
2009-05-25 - Loveed this film and am happy I now own it. Am an ardent Julie Andrews fan and wish I could own all her films. Have watched it several times all ready. She is as great an entertainer as always.
The Princess Diaries 2-Royal Engagement
2009-05-21 - I love this movie & have watched it severly times but enjoy it each & every time. I wish stuff like this really happened in real life because if it did happen to me I would be in 7th heaven.
