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Prince & Me, The
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for some sex-related material and language
Starring
Julia Stiles,
Luke Mably,
Ben Miller,
James Fox,
Miranda Richardson,
Eliza Bennett,
Alberta Watson,
and
John Bourgeois
Paige, a pre-med student from Wisconsin, is on the fast track toward her lifelong goals. Edward, the Crown Prince of Denmark, is trying to escape a life he never chose. Needing an escape from his royal life, Edward treks to Wisconsin and poses as "Eddie," a college student. Now they've fallen in love and Edward is in line to become King. Paige has to choose between two dreams -- becoming a princess or the doctor she's always wanted to be. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jack Amiel
Michael Begler
Katherine Fugate (also story)
Mark Amin (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Martha Coolidge
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 10, 2004
Video: August 10, 2004
Theatrical: April 2, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
111 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Quite appealing, thanks to good-humored acting and to Martha Coolidge's quiet directing style. She lets romance and comedy bubble up from the characters instead of imposing gimmicky twists on the story.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
But probably the best thing about The Prince & Me is the way the story doesn't end in the obvious place but keeps going, showing the characters continuing to develop.

75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
It's all done with such good heart, and Stiles is so perfectly appealing as one of cinema's most grounded Cinderellas.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Stiles is lovely, forthright and believable, so much so that when the scene shifts back to storybook Denmark (actually shot in Prague), she grounds this fluff in recognizable reality.

75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
This is a smart piece of revisionist fluff that dares to question what happens after the royal honeymoon is over.

70
Washington Post
Sara Gebhardt
Nothing is new about the movie's premise, but it is entertaining all the same.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
It's a perfect choice for a mother/daughter evening out...decently constructed, solidly performed, and not too naïve.

63
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
To her credit, director Martha Coolidge has crafted a fairy-tale ending that is both old-fashioned and newfangled, allowing her heroine to have it all. But despite a few magic moments, the rest of the film feels stale.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Even its pre-teen audience could use a bit more quirkiness and a little less formula.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The Prince & Me has the materials to be a heartwarming mass-market love story, but it doesn't assemble them convincingly.

60
Dallas Observer
Melissa Levine
Trashes whatever spirited fun it initially established. Goodnight, Sweet Prince. Dream on.

60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Coolidge directs as if the characters were believable human beings--at least until she gets to the end, when Hollywood and fairy-tale conventions have to triumph over humanity and common sense.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
Director Martha Coolidge attempts to keep the film grounded in reality, but the movie flutters away from her control.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
In a series of endings, she, and the audience, are falsely promised that she can have it all. In other words, The Prince & Me is committed to the controversial American policy of No Fantasy Left Behind.

50
LA Weekly
Ron Stringer
To no one's possible satisfaction -- the non-question of how Paige is to ascend to the throne and retain her personal integrity that The Prince and Me falls, finally and irrevocably, flat.

50
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
A blandly diverting, chastely conceived and grammatically challenged fairy tale for our bland, chaste and grammatically challenged age.

50
Premiere
Laine Ewen
Feels more practical than whimsical, more politically correct than sweep-you-off-your-feet romantic.

50
Village Voice
Ed Park
Their opposites-attract trajectory entertainingly reaches an applause-inducing climax -- but heeding Eddie's exegetical advice, Prince refuses to end on such an easy emotional note.

42
Portland Oregonian
Karen Karbo
The only thing unpredictable about The Prince and Me is the plot's basic logic. It's unfortunate, because the young leads are appealing and the issues Paige confronts are important. Why couldn't the movie be half as smart as she?

40
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Silly? Contrived? Vapid? You bet. Put more simply, "The Prince & Me" is . . . cute.

40
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
The trouble with retooling fairy tales to jibe with our more enlightened times is that too often the fun gets stripped along with the offensive parts.

40
Empire
Anna Smith
Disappoints due to poor structure, flimsy characterisation and insufficient wit.

40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
A cream puff with a melted marshmallow inside it. As the temperature rises, the whole gooey thing starts to melt.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
An unremarkable romantic comedy that gives short shrift to both romance and comedy.

40
Variety
Scott Foundas
Totally cliched and nearly two hours long, pic takes forever to get to hopelessly obvious places.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's one of those movies where talented filmmakers waste time with stale, phony material.

38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
In its nearly two-hour running time, in its always lugubrious pace, in its almost complete absence of laughs, The Prince & Me is a comedy that plays like a tragedy. No stricken bodies, though, unless you count the ones in the audience slumped back in their seats -- perchance they slept.

30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Few actresses exude restless intelligence as effortlessly as Stiles, which is fortunate, since Martha Coolidge's film relies on that forceful charisma to make it past awful dialogue, contrived situations, and hokey use of Disney-style butterflies.

30
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
Even the teens at whom this plodding and predictable romantic comedy is clearly aimed are unlikely to be swept away by its contrivances.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
May not set back Danish-American relations, but it's amusing to imagine how this schlock would have turned out under Denmark's most famous director, the American-hating Lars von Trier.

25
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
A royal mess, a lethally stupid romantic teen comedy.


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