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There are no words. Oh wait, I’ve come up with a few: catastrophic, dismal, painful and agonizing. It is little wonder this movie never made it to the big screen. It would have made Gigli look like an unmitigated success. The Prince and Me 2: The Royal Wedding makes me lament man’s evolution into a species with language, because it led to the creation of this disaster.

Let’s start with the obvious. Only one of the original actors and one producer returned after the first film. Literally everyone else who worked on the first fled from the second like rats from a ship doomed to go down. The director, writer, cinematographer, composer, editor(s) and producer(s)—all different people. This gives the movie a completely different feel from the first. It is hard to say if the writer even saw the first movie before penning the script for the second.

Several key characters and ideas are changed or removed from the storyline entirely. Prince Edvard’s little sister is suddenly nowhere to be found, and the father that was terminally ill in the first is played by a jolly (and wholly healthy) Santa Claus-type in the second. The stubborn-yet-trusting relationship between Prince Edvard and Paige seems to have disintegrated overnight. The Paige and Eddie from the first film would never let others interfere in their personal life, and would certainly never mistrust what they had fought to save.

The idea of bringing in an ancient rule about princes and commoners not allowed to wed is ridiculous and childish. Then, the prince weakly leaves it up to the lawyers, and Paige lets Eddie handle it. She fights at the end when she miraculously finds an answer after studying dusty volumes with law students. Yes, students. The best of the monarchy’s legal minds outwitted by students.

In movie comments across the web, people cry out against this horrible taint on the original. With good reason. The acting seems forced, the script is unbearably bad, and even the cinematography is awful. Enjoy the first and stay away from the second.

Written by: Tracy Elledge

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