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| PRINCESS DIARIES 2, THE: ROYAL ENGAGEMENT (2004) - G
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by Lew Irwin
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 In sizing up Disney's The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, which hits the screens today (Wednesday), Roger Ebert remarks that he had the choice of saying what he really thought about it or play it safe by writing that young girls will love it. He decides on the former, writing that he has spent a long time "evolving into the kind of person who could not possibly like a movie like this, and I like to think the effort was not in vain." Other critics take the opposite course. Michael Booth in the Denver Post cops out: "I'll take my daughter's lead on this one and say Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement is gentle fun." Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News comments that the film "ought to charm its loyal subjects, or at least their less demanding little sisters." Megan Lehmann in the New York Post comments that it "has just enough fairy dust to charm its target audience." And Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times raves that "it's Hollywood hokum at its most glamorous and effective." But John Anderson's review in Newsday comes with these warnings: "One, that small children will be bored. Two, that they will be bored. Three: that they will be bored. Four: Zzzzzzzzzzz... ." Manohla Dargis in the New York Times observes that director Garry Marshal shoots the film as he would a TV sitcom. "And as in those sitcoms shot in front of live audiences, Mr. Marshall's actors often play to the camera and wait for laughs, which can be a serious problem when the screenplay is as deeply unfunny as this one." |
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