Davis P The Princess Diaries 2: A Royal Engagement is of course a sequel to the 2001 Disney film, The Princess Diaries. This is a feel good movie, to be honest though, that is not a bad thing, we need feel good movies sometimes, and if you are going to watch this film, then you have gotta know that this must be a sugary feel good movie. First, the things that worked for this movie. The casting worked well here, as it did in the first one. Hathaway is good as Mia, Andrews is good as the Queen. The writing is alright overall, it has some funny moments, some romantic moments, and a handful of dramatic ones as well. The characters have good chemistry and I loved Chris Pine and Anne Hathaway together. Their romantic storyline is very delightful and it worked because of their winning chemistry. I think this film is great for families, kids and youth will definitely like it. I also think that adults can like it too, even though an older audience isn't the target audience for this movie. 8/10 for the sequel to The Princess Diaries.

studioAT Never ones to miss an opportunity Disney were very quick to make this sequel after the surprise success of the first. I assume they also wanted to make it before Anne Hathaway got too old to play the role too.As with many a sequel, this one isn't as good as the original. That isn't to say it's not got it moments (Julie Andrews singing again is a huge one) but the plot feels a bit predictable. In fact it feels very similar to the plot of the earlier Disney film 'The Santa Clause 2', only with a Princess needing to find a husband rather than Santa finding a wife.The main selling point of this and the original is Anne Hathaway. I don't think there was ever a doubt that she would go on to bigger and better things. Her performance more than makes up for the slower parts of this film.

Desertman84 The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement is the sequel of The Princess Diaries.It has most of the cast return such as Julie Andrews as Queen Clarisse and Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis together with Héctor Elizondo and Heather Matarazzo; as well as the director of the first film,Garry Marshall.Appearing for the first time in the franchise it Chris Pine,John Rhys-Davies and Callum Blue.In the sequel,Mia has become a full-fledge princess at Genovia.She is now to crowned as Queen but apparently she needs to get married first before it could happen.This is where things get complicated as she is engaged to someone whom she is not really attracted to and wants to become with someone she really is in love with.But in the end,everything predictably ends when Mia gets crowned and ends up with someone that she is truly in love with.It would have been better if Princess Diaries ended in the first film as there is nothing really to work with in the sequel.This would probably be for young girls but obviously marriage is something that many of them have not given a serious thought about it yet.While it was good to see Anne Hathaway once again as Mia,I felt that there is nothing more left as far as her character is concerned after the first film.But nevertheless,it was still clean and fun fairy tale as far as the sequel is concerned.

vchimpanzee I thought most of the leading players did a good job here. Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo gave especially fine performances. And I particularly liked Mia's servants Brigitte and Brigitta. Anne Hathaway did a good job most of the time, though I couldn't help but think she fell short of Audrey Hepburn in "Roman Holiday". Mia was such a sweet and caring character, and she looked great with all that hair and her nice smile. Heather Matarazzo, as Mia's best friend, gave the film just enough of an edge.John Rhys-Davies enunciated quite well but his character seemed too silly. He was the scheming uncle of Nicholas, the "rightful" heir to the throne. What I didn't enjoy that much were the conflicts between Nicholas and Andrew, who was supposed to marry Mia. Sometimes I liked the two characters, and other times I couldn't help but think of Vince vs. Henry and Dean vs. Jess.But what I really wanted was comedy (poor Mia still doesn't really know what she's doing), plus the tender scenes where Mia showed she cared about the people.There was nothing offensive here, truly rare in this day and age.