Hitchcoc
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.
alexxxx-76667
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.
SnoopyStyle
Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) is a dorky invisible teen who everybody steps on. She lives with her mother (Caroline Goodall) in an old fire station in San Francisco. Her only friend is Lilly Moscovitz (Heather Matarazzo). Her dead father's mother Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews) of Genovia has come to town to tell her that she's the only heir for the throne. She is shocked since her mother never told her any of this and she doesn't want to rule. Joe (Héctor Elizondo) is her new driver. She is given princess lessons by her grandmother. She is picked on by mean girl Lana Thomas (Mandy Moore) and her friends, but she is infatuated with Lana's jock boyfriend Josh Bryant. Meanwhile Michael Moscovitz is in love with Mia.There are many things wrong with this movie. It's cheesy. It has a few too many stupidity. The mother needs to be played by somebody more compelling. The one thing that this movie has is the lovely Anne Hathaway. She is terrific as a dork. She actually makes the cliché ugly duckling work. She does great pratfalls even when the movie turns into a slapstick affair. And then it has the regal Julie Andrews who can really class things up when she wants to.
Lee Eisenberg
When I first heard of "The Princess Diaries" around the time that it came out, I was a little perplexed at learning that the star shared a name with William Shakespeare's wife. To be certain, my friend and I had plans to see "Rush Hour 2", and we couldn't understand why "TPD" was playing on more screens (fortunately, we managed to see "RH2").Anyway, now that I've seen "TPD", I'm going to offer a weird analysis of it. Probably the most confusing thing about is that Garry Marshall directed it. Who's he, you ask? The creator of "Happy Days". Yes, the man who gave us the coolest greaser in history now gives us a story of a benevolent but awkward teenage girl who learns that she's actually the heir to a throne, and has to learn how to behave like a princess, with mixed results. Maybe the fact that Marshall gave these dissimilar pieces of work says something about the duality of humanity.This is the sort of movie that I usually only watch to heckle like the characters on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" do to really crummy movies. I didn't heckle this one, however. I guess that since Anne Hathaway has done a number of more serious roles - "Brokeback Mountain", "The Devil Wears Prada", "Rachel Getting Married" - since then, it's much easier to accept her as more than just another pretty face (although I do find her quite attractive). The movie itself is totally predictable, so I still hold that "Happy Days" is Garry Marshall's best creation. As the Fonz would say "I knew dat!"
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