Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Honestly, the first time I've actually seen this film was when I was pimply teenage girl who also dreamed to become a princess one day. So, that time I found the plot very impressive and captivating. These lovely stories where unattractive freaky geeks suddenly turn into beautiful self-confident kickass people always seemed very fascinating and inspiring to me. To my amazement, after watching "The Princess Diaries" about seven years later I'm still claiming this story is quite convincing. I laughed at Anne Hathaway's grimace and other characters's jokes were pretty amusing. What's of great importance is the main message the author wants to share with the audience (from my point of view). The premise is that we all often do not value the simple things until we lose them by reason of our stupidity. We don't value our real friends (who love our attractively weird personality, not our beatiful appearance) until we reject them for some popular guy built of lie and flattery. We don't value our privacy and freedom until we become the subject of gossiping. And we definitely don't value our happy and carefree childhood until we have to grow up and make responsible decisions. Anyway, the movie is neither tiresome nor second-rate and I'd higly recommend watching it with your family or just by yourself. The excellent acting of Anne Hathaway (and watching her clumsy geeky character transforming into cut a dashing figure), Julie Andrews, Héctor Elizondo and other exceptionally talented actors certainely worth seeing.

I watched with my daughter. She was intrigued by the story and really likes Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews. Certainly, I've never read the books, nor has she. So I can't go off on Disney ruining this for everyone. What they did, and is so often done, is take the things they wanted from the books, namely their version of the characters, tweeted the setting and the events affecting the characters, and did their own movie. The author had to weigh in on this, I suppose, although authors are often victimized by movie producers. Anyway, what we have here is a lightweight movie with a shy teenage character who finds herself in the old I'm-no-prepared-for-this mode as she becomes a monarch in a little country. What we have then are encounters with her friends and mean girls and a boyfriend who is only interested in feathering his nest. She has a major decision to make and that's why we continue to watch. I'm an adult male and so I defer to those who have an investment in this. Remember, it's just for fun.

I watched this movie when I was elementary school. It was almost 10 years ago. But sometimes even now, I want to watch that movie. Story is very simple Cinderella story and mixed modern America Sun Fransico. Main character goes to school,there is typical Adolescent cliques. She is not the top class of Adolescent cliques. She revealed she is princess, but she wants to hide that thing. The cause of that, may be there is related. She grew up as a princess. Then she forget an important thing. That is importance of friendship. She get in trouble because of forget that. I really learn many important thing in this movie.

"The Princess Diaries" is titled "Pretty Princess" in Japan. Mia is a inconspicuous student, and lives in San Fransisco with divorced mother. One day, her estranged grand mother comes to visit her suddenly. The grand mother is queen of Genovia, and she tells that she wants Mia to be a princess, because father is a prince, but he died. Mia don't know that and she is shocked. She needs a professional makeover to be a princess, because she is a normal teen. She has princess lessons under the ground mother temporarily, but she must make a choice between life of San Fransiisco or the life of Genovia as a princess.Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews co-star in this movie. Their combination are very funny, and their relationship strengthen gradually, that is heart-warming. Moreover, Anne is so lovely! When she is dressed up, she is very prettily, this is a girl's dream! The plot is good, but little childish, because Mia is in love with a friend, but hardly development. This movie is a typical chick flicks movie, but kind of comedy, not romantic comedy, I think.