The original 'Love Bug' is a family classic, aged gracefully & great for everyone. It's old fashioned effects require a bit of imagination, but still wonderful. The sequils are not as good as the original but in this nicely priced package there's no complaints.
For those who didn't read the books but watched all the previous movies, you will likely be surprised by where the story goes and shocked by how it all comes to an end.
Not as funny as the first 3 in the series. This movie is barely any better than the third Open Season. This is a five year old's horror movie and not anything good in it for an adult to enjoy watching it with kids. That Is why I give this flick a 3/ 5 stars.
Directed by Garry Marshall, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement picks up where its predecessor left off -- that is, with American teenager Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) reeling over the news that she is a princess within the royal family of Genovia, a little-known European nation with a population of barely 50,000. As promised, Mia, along with her best friend, Lily (Heather Matarazzo), travels to Genovia after their high-school graduation. The unlikely princess has hardly settled into the castle, let alone begun representing the country, when she learns that a larger title is approaching more rapidly than expected; it seems as though Mia will have to take over as queen. Suddenly, in addition to further schooling on the etiquette of royalty, Mia finds herself with a daunting prospect -- according to Genovian law, all princesses must be married before they can be crowned. In addition to Julie Andrews' reprisal of her role as Queen Clarisse Renaldi, The Princess Diaries 2 also features Hector Elizondo and John Rhys-Davies in supporting roles. Though Princess Diaries author Meg Cabot did pen a sequel (The Princess Diaries: Princess in the Spotlight), this film is not an adaptation.
As a huge fan of The Princess Diaries books and the first movie, I honestly thought this movie would not be as good. The second time around, The Princess Diaries is just as pleasing and a complete joy to watch.
The hit comedy The Princess Diaries gets the royal treatment in this special two-disc DVD release. The Princess Diaries appears in two transfers, a widescreen version letterboxed in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1 (and enhanced for anamorphic playback on 16 x 9 monitors), and a full-screen transfer pan-and-scanned to the 1.33:1 ratio. The audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital 5.1, and viewers may choose between the original English-language audio and a dubbed track in French. Optional subtitles in English, French, and Spanish are also included. The disc which features the letterboxed transfer of the film also includes two alternate commentary tracks, one featuring leading ladies Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway, and the other with director Garry Marshall. Other bonus materials on the widescreen disc include a collection of trailers for other Walt Disney Home Entertainment releases, a look at the making of the movie, a preview of the sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement , outtakes and bloopers, and more. The full-screen disc includes a different set of extras, including eight deleted scenes (with introduction from director Marshall), and music videos for the songs "Supergirl" by Krystal Harris and "Miracles Happen" by Myra.
Our entire family enjoyed this movie thoroughly. Although it will not win an Academy award, it is quite an entertaining, charming, modern fairy tale. Don't miss it. Anne Hathaway (Mia) is funny, quirky, and masters the lip curl quite well in this film.
This movie exceeded all my expectations. I was blown away at how good this was... it was exactly as you would expect that it should be. It was really great movie with laughs and smiles and tells us some important message.
This was one of my favorite movies as a child. Sure, maybe I was a little aloof to what was really happening, but I found nothing depressing about the film. Yes, it's sad and yes the happy ending isn't a Disney-type happy, but I'm sure that doesn't really matter to most kids.
Yit's been done, over and over and over and it's still great. For the most parts it's the same cliché, the little dinosaur on his way back to his family after a tragic event makes it through a series of trials on his journey home. This movie takes that and creates a deep, emotional bond between you and the characters in the movie.
The movie stays very loyal to the roots of the books and the TV series, but it renews some aspects in order to appeal to older fans, but also to kids that have very little knowledge about Goosebumps. You'll see a lot of the Monsters that used to haunt you when you were little, being comedic but also creepy at the same time.
Overall this movie was very reminiscent of last year's Guardians of the Galaxy, but, in my opinion, it was pulled off even better, with a stronger sense of plot and direction than Guardians had.