The Prince & Me II: The Royal Wedding (2006) (V)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Catherine Cyran

Writers (WGA):

Allison Robinson (written by)
Mark Amin (characters) ...

Release Date:

21 February 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

Love reigns supreme.

Plot:

With just weeks before their royal wedding, Paige and Edvard find their relationship and the Danish...

Plot Keywords:

Wedding | Royalty | Second Part | Prince | Forbidden Love

Cast

Luke Mably	...	Prince Edvard
Kam Heskin	...	Paige Morgan
Maryam d'Abo	...	Queen Rosalind
Clemency Burton-Hill	...	Princess Kirsten
Jonathan Firth	...	Soren
Jim Holt	...	Prince Albert
David Fellowes	...	King Haarald
Daniel Cerny	...	Jake
David Fisher	...	Doctor
Mirek Hrabe	...	Prince Vladimir
Paulina Bakarova	...	Princess Gabrielle (as Paulina Nemcova)
Lana Likic	...	Princess Carmilla
Dan Brown	...	Bishop
Andrea Miltner	...	Birgitta
Zdenek Maryska	...	Mr Christianson

Also Known As:

The Prince & Me 2: The Royal Wedding (Australia)

MPAA:

Rated PG for brief mild language.

Runtime:

Brazil:96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:PG | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:AL | Finland:K-3 | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Prague, Czech Republic

Company:

Capital Arts Entertainment

Goofs:

Errors in geography: While showing us "Danish" castles and buildings, the movie's opening sequence included a shot of a castle flying Czech flags (blue, red, & white). Like the first movie, parts of the sequel were shot in the Czech Republic.

Movie Connections:

Followed by The Prince & Me 3: A Royal Honeymoon (2008)

Soundtrack:

Gonna Make It

I was unhappy with the writing and the lack of care in siting, plot and lack of use of original actors

Dear me, I think I was not very happy when I saw this sequel! What can I say kindly? Although the movie was funny, slapstick, and lighthearted, it felt like it lacked much depth of feeling and lacked the more timeless quality of the careful acting and writing and siting of the first version. It was too hurried, and unrealistic; a number of the characters were "plastic" and lacked depth in their development. It's as if someone took the characters in the first movie and put them on a faster time machine, with all that fast talk. It just didn't seem real.

The ultimate anguished moment for me was that the end was too hurried in parts it should not have been, crazy and simply not believable - especially the muted, smiling "parents" - who lacked the depth of the original parents - the kind you can really relate to, not the wax-faced figures that seemed to "appear". The characters were not developed well, although the father in this movie did seem to be a very good actor in his expression of words.

How did the plot evolve? The depth of the characters (except for Luke), clarity of the scenes and plot and the acting was all off-key to me. I apologize for having to be negative, as I like to encourage, but it was just so disappointing! Upon reflection, I think I was shocked and made quite angry to find most of the original cast gone, so great to the first movie. When the original actors are not reused - the immediate thing that happens in my mind is comparing and trying to figure out if this character is really supposed to be the one I saw before - and realizing how different they are, and not in a good way....which takes away from the movie and its plot. I think it must be a reflexive action to do so, and had the original actors been used, it might have had a small chance...

I kept wanting to see the real Soren (although his replacement was good - but too hurried)- what a great character and actor the original Soren is! as well as Julia Stiles and her parents and brothers and his real mother, the Queen (she played it so beautifully, timing was there in her words and actions, as were all the actors in the original cast) and where was the Prince's sweet sister????? It was so sadly not there.....they were so great together in the original movie, so well written and so in-depth with serious issues and real love....you could feel the chemistry betwenn all the actors in the first one.

Had this second movie been done on its own and not as a sequel, it would have happily landed on its feet as a funny farce. But it went into the mud with the Norwegian "Princess", in my book! What happened? Is there any way, any way at all to redo the movie with the original writers, staff, actors, etc? It needs to be done - I would really like to see this plot modified and redone - a really well-done, in-depth romance! Thank you for listening!