That was an excellent one.

Lack of good storyline.

A Disappointing Continuation

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The Christmas Prince is a fantastic movie, made to be watched by people of all ages. We all loved the whole movie, story and the actors were perfect. I really hope to see a part two to this movie to followup on the new king and queen ruling together. I have to say this was the best holiday and family movie for 2017! Thank you all. Looking forward to the next movie.

I was forced into watching A Christmas Prince, so I was already salty about it when the opening credits rolled. Since my viewing experience was influenced by my current emotions, I decided to watch it again, to give it a fair chance. I still didn't really like this movie. It took a few ideas from various areas of Disney (i.e. The Princess Diaries, Beauty and the Beast, Enchanted) and even then the story was rather weak. The settings are beautiful, and the costumes are great too, however that doesn't save this movie from being average at best. With every character a cliché, every joke being unoriginal and predictable (rather like the main story), and a leading actress who seems to be trying way to hard to be Reese Witherspoon, I couldn't find myself liking this movie. However, I am not the target audience. This is meant to be a family Christmas film, and it succeeds at being so. Therefore, it is good, due to the fact that it is successful at what it is trying to be.

Let's forget about the corny plot. Of course, a movie titled "A Christmas Prince" can't be that intriguing as in terms of the storyline. Therefore, one could conclude that the charm of the leads could help propel the film or at least make it consumable to the Netflix audience-of course it's not the case here! The main problem seems to be the prince. Ben Lamb has absolutely no charm on screen. Makes you wonder how he got this lofty role as the prince and Rose McIver is no Reese Witherspoon. The pairing of McIver and Lamb had no chemistry. The prince is too much of a wimp and the journalist is rather dull. Overall, a very disappointing movie.

The two stars represent the fact that this film makes for a fantastic drinking game this festive season. Take a drink every time:You see something incredibly clichéd You can see plot points and "twists" coming from 10,000 miles awayYou find yourself wondering, "if this is meant to be in mainland Europe, why do they speak like British aristocracy?"The horrible dialogue makes you cringe and die a little insideI guarantee you will be off your trolley in the first half-hour.Also, don't be fooled by these reviews. The volume of people giving it 10 stars seemed mighty suspicious. And indeed, the vast majority of them come from people who joined this month, specifically to review this one film...