The Princess Diaries (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: A Royal Party!
Review: Princess Diaries is a great movie. I laugh a lot every time I see it!

Mia (Hathaway) is in high school and she is invisible to everyone but her best friend and her best friends brother! She has a crush on a popular guy who also sees her as invisible. Until Mia finds out she is a princess...she tries to keep this a secret but it ends up getting out and then everyone including the popular kids wants to hang with Mia!

You watch Mia go through the hard life of being in love and someone not loving her the same...Someone loving Mia and her being blind to it (Rooney's lead singer!) and best friend trials. It is full of comedy and romance and was well made. Mia tries hard to have a foot popping experience but finds out what true love really is in the end!

The music to this movie is great and this movie has a great moral what goes around comes around. I don't think you will be disappointed when you watch this movie!


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Summary: The Royal Princess
Review: Fifteen year old Mia Thermopolis is awkward, with glasses, frizzy hair that she can't control, and just wants to blend into the scenery. She is good at being "invisible" and cannot make a speech in front of her class without becoming sick to her stomach. Imagine her surprise when her grandmother, her father's mother whom she's never met, arrives in town and tells Mia that she is really a princess! Mia is hesitant about being put in the spotlight, but she starts taking "Princess lessons". Not only does she learn how to be a Princess, but she learns how to be true to herself and who her true friends really are.

This is a good clean, fun movie for women of all ages. Most teenage girls with identify with Mia as well as any woman who can remember what it was like to be a teenager (and who can't?). The movie doesn't break any new ground, movies like this never do, but who cares? It's great to see Julie Andrews in a starring role and she has a lot of fun with the part. The rest of the cast is excellent, especially Anne Hathaway (although she is far too pretty for the audience to believe she is ever an ugly duckling), Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo, and Robert Schwartzman.



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Summary: I lost my socks.
Review: Batton down the hatches! Fire on the poopdeck! It's time for That's my Carl!!!!!! I want to be a girlie just like my dear Papa! Wait a minute, I forgot, I am a girl! You will die in seven days, Woooooooooh! Aaaaaaahhhhh. This preperation H is way better than the OTHER brand.

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Summary: A Royal Coming of Age Tale
Review: 15-year-old Mia Thermopolis is just hoping to get through school. She mostly invisible and likes it that way. Then her grandmother comes to visit and reveals a secret. Mia is really a princess and next in line for the throne of Genovia. Now Mia must learn to act like a princess while dealing with her new found popularity and fame. Does she want the throne? Can she rule? Will she hurt her friends in the process?

This is a fun movie. Rewatching it recently, I was struck by how realistic it was. Mia goes through many emotions over the course of the movie, all of which exactly what a girl in her shoes would go through. And her growth is quite noticeable. Along the way, there's a great story that moves along nicely and keeps your interest. Newcomer Anne Hathaway is perfect as Mia, and Julie Andrews brings believability to her roll as Queen Clarisse. I can't imagine anyone else in her roll.

The DVD release is perfect for fans of the movie. The widescreen picture looks great and the full surround is perfect. There's a fun behind the scenes featurette, 8 deleted scenes with interesting if somewhat over done commentary by Gary Marshall, and two audio commentaries. The first features director Gary Marshall and the second features a tea party/commentary with Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway.

Pre-teens girls are the target audience of this movie, and they'll love it. But anyone in the family will enjoy this movie if they'll give it a chance.

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Summary: Hathaway engaging, plot by the numbers
Review: A predictable teen fantasy in which a downtrodden San Francisco 15 year old discovers that she is actually a princess of Genovia. Some of the conflict and giddiness seem believable and real, as when Mia (Hathaway) takes advantage of her popularity to go on a date with the most popular (and jerky) boy at school, or when Mia is embarrassed that her mother is planning a date with a teacher. There are also some touching moments between Mia and her bodyguard-turned-chauffeur. But there is too much that seems phony; it's a given that the climactic ball will be a chance for Mia to save the day and get a romantic moment with her true-blue boyfriend-to-be, but the filmmakers shouldn't have made the mistake of making Mia blind to the benefits of being a princess; more importantly, they shouldn't have tried to play off Mia's newfound royalty as a cause for derision by her peers.

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Summary: Absolutely love this movie
Review: I am not a teen and usually hate Disney movies because I find them cloying.But this one is different, anne hathaway is charming and ingenue, with Julie Andrews makes a great package.If want to just sit back and relax without too much analysis,this is the movie.Humour is light and easy and they don't kill you with the good things(love etc etc) like typical disney movies.