Review of The Princess Diaries (2001) by Travis J — 30 Mar 2011

Ah the Princess Diaries was filled with a great cast with supporting actress Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway as the star. The production values and design were through the roof with great camera work nonetheless.

We have a story dealing with an outcast who finds out about her identity and is transformed into a beautiful princess and departs from the life she is familiar with to adapt a new lifestyle in Nova Scotia.

I could easily say this looks good with a heart missing. Well, there was a lot more missing in Princess Diaries than a heart. Intelligence, wit, humor, development, and shrewdness were just some of the things missing in this flick as I sat there not laughing once.

I slightly scoffed at two scenes with the utter predictableness of the archetype formula used in the film. We get a nerdy-invisible outcast, Mia, living with her artist mom and hanging out with her clique until she learns from a secret from a grandmother that randomly appears after 15 years without knowledge.

The story is simple: your dad is dead and you are a princess of Nova Scotia. Oh, and keep this a secret! From there, Mia goes through a transformation and is civilized, so she does not have to live in untamed and unmannered San Francisco.

Despite the chagrin from her (sometimes unsupportive) best friend, Mia ignores it and obliviously invites the new friendly attitude from former tormentors. Who could have seen that fore coming? She finds love later on in the film from the person we already predicted after we figure out Mr.

Good looking was a bad guy from the start. Itâ??s pretty much clichà (C). Oh and the humor, the film is filled unfunny scenes of chain reaction slapstick. As for the end, the Andrewâ??s character reveals something we already knew about her and how it is relevant to Mia.

Princess Diaries is a well done produced royal film that needs to be coup dâ??Ã (C)tat.