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04/06/04
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The Prince & Me (2004)
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Reviews Counted:116
Fresh:31
Rotten:85
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: A bland, fluffy, and predictable bit of wish fulfillment.
Theatrical Release:Apr 2, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $28,108,440
Synopsis: Following in the footsteps of WIN A DATE WITH TAD HAMILTON and THE PRINCESS DIARIES, THE PRINCE AND ME is a modern-day fairy tale with a feminist twist. Julia Stiles stars as Paige Morgan, a... [More]
Starring: Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, James Fox, Miranda Richardson
Director: Martha Coolidge
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Reviews for The Prince & Me
The conventional romantic frou-frou -- replete with oppressively alternative singer-songwriter ballads with their plot-mortar lyrics -- ratchets everything down to the level of brain-death.
04/01/04
Top CriticFitful corny one-liners and an ambiguous climax can be overlooked due to fresh scripting and the vast appeal of Julia Stiles and newcomer Luke Mably.
03/29/04
Contrived, unconvincing, and formulaic. Shame.
04/05/04
I guess the 'real' part is that the heroine here isn't a simp as she was in, say, Cinderella, and the handsome prince is no longer that handsome and no longer behaves in a princely manner.
04/02/04
Naturally in a Hollywood movie, any independent woman with no interest in marriage has to be in love and engaged by the end of the film.
04/01/04
It's easy enough to recommend The Prince & Me as a romantic comedy. The movie wants to be more than that, but the muddled way in which it divulges its themes occasionally makes it suffer from a split personality.
03/29/04
Top CriticThere’s only one way The Prince and Me could be any worse — it could have starred Kate Hudson.
03/30/04
The characters lack consistency; they are manipulated like puppets merely to serve the whims of the writers.
04/03/04
The realism clashes with the princess-fantasy story.
04/02/04
Wanders around in a state of creative lassitude and finally collapses in an ending that smells suspiciously of market-testing.
04/02/04
Coolidge wisely works within the confines of the romantic comedy genre and delivers a quality experience.
04/19/04
A lesson, ladies: Sometimes a frog is just... a frog. Toss this baby back in the pond, sweetheart.
04/02/04
Two vibrant performances by Luke Mably and Julia Stiles don't compensate for the wobbly screenplay and predictable finale.
04/01/04
churns suds like an industrial washing machine spiffing up 100 pounds of bland
03/13/04
It's not torture, it's actually sort of fun for long stretches--a shame that The Prince & Me squanders all that good will in its desire to be ordinary.
03/31/04
A woeful and predictable outing for Cinders and an impossibly twitty prince
07/15/04
Pure fairy tale, but it's also charming enough to win us over in the end.
05/20/04
Even the teens at whom this plodding and predictable romantic comedy is clearly aimed are unlikely to be swept away by its contrivances.
04/02/04
This isn't a royal treatment of the Cinderella story - it's just average.
04/06/04
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