The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Yawn. Stretch. After seeing this pointless flick of ultimate boredom, the consequential need for sleep still persists. Unless you’re a carefree 10-year-old girl with flightless fantasies of overused fairytales, you’ll be reaching for a pillow, too. In this trite sequel with a main purpose of turning a quick buck, Anne Hathaway reprises her role as the princess of the fictitious Genovia where cardboard cutout storefronts and paint-by-number landscapes are commonplace. After muddling through the princess-in-training slapstick in the 2001 original, the future queen searches for a husband in order to appease an arbitrary royal loophole. To throw another predictable wrench into the stale storyline, a greedy sweet-talking pretty boy contends for the crown and for Princess Mia’s heart. Garry Marshall directs again, though this time he just goes through the motions with feeble attempts to entertain the small target audience. What would really delight us all is for this to be the last entry of the Princess Diaries.