Screenwriter Gina Wendkos, working from Meg Cabot's novel, resorts to monotonous movie clichés: almost uniformly cruel classmates and a callous, cacophonous mob of media jackals.
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The Princess Diaries (2001)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:13
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: A charming, if familiar, makeover movie for young teenage girls.
Theatrical Release:Aug 3, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $107,785,435
Synopsis: Teen actress Anne Hathaway gives an endearing performance in Garry Marshall's delightful Disney comedy, THE PRINCESS DIARIES. Assisted by such seasoned pros as Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo (a... [More]
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo
Director: Garry Marshall
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Reviews for The Princess Diaries
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01/06/02
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08/09/01
Top CriticA modest, enjoyable fairy tale that easily outcharms its animated stablemates of the past decade.
08/07/01
Top CriticA sweet movie from a sweet director.
08/03/01
Top CriticHardly a cross-dressing update of My Fair Lady. But in its own blanded-down fashion, it captures just enough of that show's metamorphic zest to make you wish it were.
08/03/01
Top CriticOccasionally funny but more often hackneyed, schmaltzy, predictable and overdone.
08/03/01
Top CriticPretty and pretty amusing but wholly fake.
08/03/01
Top CriticA surprisingly sophisticated comedy.
08/03/01
Top CriticThe movie is one to savor for its good humor and big heart, despite some hackneyed fairy-tale notions.
08/03/01
Top CriticSurprisingly little time is spent mining the comic potential of Mia's education, with the comedy rationed in favour of a tiresome amount of attention lavished on her ongoing school problems.
08/03/01
Top CriticThe most surprising thing about this movie is just how little humor or heart it has.
08/03/01
Top CriticAn ideal family film.
08/03/01
Top CriticThe Princess Diaries is a march through the swamp of recycled ugly duckling stories, with occasional pauses in the marsh of sitcom cliches and the bog of Idiot Plots.
08/03/01
Top CriticEven if the parents in the audience roll their eyes at this movie's flimsy plot, clumsy dialogue and unbelievable characters, young girls will no doubt fall for the fantasy.
08/02/01
Top CriticSo aggressively bland and inoffensive that it practically recedes from the screen.
08/02/01
Top CriticThe G-rated Princess Diaries could be a television pilot, but it can't hope to compete.
08/02/01
Top CriticToo cute and too messy at the same time.
08/02/01
Top CriticGets the duckling- to-swan ambivalence just right.
08/02/01
Top CriticOne cannot dismiss a movie in which Andrews, that rare woman in the Hollywood garden of girls, reminds us that bell-like enunciation, unfailing politeness and proud posture are markers of self-respect accessible to all, whether commoners or royalty.
08/02/01
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November 22, 2005:
Fox Searchlight Digs the "Phat Girlz"
Fresh out of my inbox comes a press release from Fox Searchlight that informs us of a movie called "Phat Girlz," which stars Mo'Nique, Eric Roberts, Jack Noseworthy,... More...
June 24, 2005:
From "Coyote Ugly" to "Big Man on Campus"
Screenwriter Gina Wendkos, the scribe responsible for movies such as "Coyote Ugly," "The Princess Diaries," and "The Perfect Man" will pen... More...
August 09, 2001:
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June 05, 2001:
Diaries was shot on the same soundstage used for Mary Poppins, and Marshall owns the house Andrews lived in while making that film.
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