The Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement (DVD)

...review. There's not much on the TV. So what do you do? Put on a DVD of a nice grown up film. Well, that's what any sensible person would do. I watched the Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. Starring Anne Hathaway, Princess Diaries 2 was released in 2004, the sequel to the popular Princess Diaries. Both movies are Disney "princess" movies, so you can't really go into them expecting too much. I haven't actually seen the first film, but I can report ...
...start of Princess Diaries 2; the story is condensed into a five minute catch up, and I now feel like I have seen both films. In the first movie, our heroine Mia (Hathaway) learns she is the heir to the throne of Genovia, a fictional country. Now, in Princess Diaries 2, she has finished college in America and is returning to Genovia to learn how to be a queen and to take over the throne from her grandmother. But oh no! Parliament decrees she must ...

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I have three of the Princess Diaries books by Meg Cabot. I must say that the books were duller than ever, set in a diary format that didn't interest me in the slightest but since I was given them as birthday presents I read them. When The Princess Diaries 1 came out I found it on offer in Woolworths and I thought it was worth a try, and when I watched it I was pleasantly surprised! So when the second film came out we got it on DVD and I was just ...
...WHO HAVENT SEEN IT The original Princess Diaries is a bout a 15 year old girl named Mia Thermopolis, whose life turns upside down when she discovers that she is the only heir to the Genovian throne. Her grandma, the queen of Genovia, comes to visit to tell her that she is actually a princess, and when she turns 16 she must decide whether she wants to pursue her grandmother's wishes and take the role as the upcoming queen of Genovia. Of course, there ...

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...this film carries on from The Princess Diaries 1 (funnily enough!lol). In the first film we find out that teenager Mia is in fact a princess of a land called Genovia, and that it is likely that she will become the queen! Now after undergoing a make-over and intensive queen lessons, Mia is more prepared and the second film picks up with Mia graduating college and moving to Genovia. As it is in most films, Mia does not get an easy ride. After only ...
...is infact another heir to the throne, his rather handsome nephew Lord Devereaux. With a bit of negotiation from Queen Clarisse, Mia has 30days to find a husband and get married. This leads to an intensive search conducted by Mia, her best friend Lily and the Queen to find an appriopriate husband. They think they have found the perfect man in the form of the Englishman Andrew Jacoby. With queen Clarisse inviting Lord Devereaux to stay at the palace, ...

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...is a good movie. The sequel to The Princess Diaries begins with Princess Mia graduating college and moving back to Genovia, where she is to soon take over her grandmothers place as queen. However, Mia soon finds out that an old Genovian law states a queen must be married to assume the throne. Thanks to her grandmother, Mia is then given 30 days to find a husband and get married, or she must forfeit the throne to Lord Nicholas, the next in line. ...
...a list of possibilities (with the help of her friend Lilly) to be her husband when she comes across an Englishman by the name of Andrew Jacoby and agrees to an arranged marriage with him. Although Andrew is nice enough, Mia just isn't in love with him and neither is he with her. Problems arise when Mia begins to fall in love with Nicholas, whose uncle is set on having him become king and is trying to ruin everything for Mia. But will Mia be able ...

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The Plot ========== Since finding out she is heir to the throne of "Genovia", Princess Mia has finished her education and arrives in Genovia for the first time. She soon discovers that she Genovian law requires to be married in order to assume her rightful role as Queen and she has 30 days to do this. With the help of her Grandmother, her Grandmother's assistant and her friend Lily (all in the previous film) she proceeds to attempt to find a husband ...
...the man who has agreed to marry her and the man who is trying to steal her throne, Princess Mia has to decide what to do and prove to all of Genovia that she is ready and fit to receive the crown. Blurb on back cover ================ "Starring the irresistible Anne Hathaway (ELLA ENCHANTED) and Academy Award® winner Julie Andrews (Best Actress, MARY POPPINS, 1964), this modern-day fairy tale picks up right where THE PRINCESS DIARIES left off! ...

susancarter 13.02.2006 (04.04.2006) · Read full review
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