If you want a movie with no surprises, twists, unique plots, characters or any kind of deviation from a very strict formula... then you'll probably like this movie. I don't mean that in an insulting fashion. This movie is the food equivalent of cotton candy. Sweet but without any substance.
It's a standard boy meets girl but girl is hiding something plot (Never Been Kissed, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days), with the the male love interest being a Prince.
Before going in I could have written all the plot beats on a paper and gotten them largely on the nose. The difference is she isn't just keeping a secret from him she's stalking him. She's a reporter trying to get a scoop on the Prince who has an unearned 'Playboy' title (with no real reason given).
The reporter goes undercover as the tutor for the Prince's younger sister and within minutes of her arrival and introduction she's destroyed a million dollar Ming vase. For reasons I can't fathom she's allowed to stay around (days later she ruins a painting that looks to be several hundred years old).
As the movie progresses, with time being difficult to track, the Prince is shown to be Absolutely Perfect. The lead actress is proven to be an unethical piece of trash but played by a very charming actress! She ends up coming across documents that prove the Prince is adopted, and thus not eligible for the crown. She agonizes over reporting this and actually does tell 2 friends back at her magazine. I'm sorry but she's lost all moral ground at this point and is now A Bad Person. Spying on and stalking the Prince are already Bad Things, but to steal documents that she found by chance and then even for a second considering releasing them?
Honestly when everything played out (the reveal, the evil cousin because there is always one of those, trying to take the crown) and she saves the day because for some reason the previous king can make up new laws without anyone ever finding out about them. She goes home all sad like.
Then of course the 100% expected thing happens. The Prince, now King, shows up in New York and proposes to her. Because of course he does.
The movie genuinely feels as if minimal effort went into making it. It was very paint by numbers. Nothing unique or interesting happens that deviates from what one would expect.
So if you're looking for some Christmas movie pap, go see it!
Amber should have been thrown in jail though.
It's a standard boy meets girl but girl is hiding something plot (Never Been Kissed, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days), with the the male love interest being a Prince.
Before going in I could have written all the plot beats on a paper and gotten them largely on the nose. The difference is she isn't just keeping a secret from him she's stalking him. She's a reporter trying to get a scoop on the Prince who has an unearned 'Playboy' title (with no real reason given).
The reporter goes undercover as the tutor for the Prince's younger sister and within minutes of her arrival and introduction she's destroyed a million dollar Ming vase. For reasons I can't fathom she's allowed to stay around (days later she ruins a painting that looks to be several hundred years old).
As the movie progresses, with time being difficult to track, the Prince is shown to be Absolutely Perfect. The lead actress is proven to be an unethical piece of trash but played by a very charming actress! She ends up coming across documents that prove the Prince is adopted, and thus not eligible for the crown. She agonizes over reporting this and actually does tell 2 friends back at her magazine. I'm sorry but she's lost all moral ground at this point and is now A Bad Person. Spying on and stalking the Prince are already Bad Things, but to steal documents that she found by chance and then even for a second considering releasing them?
Honestly when everything played out (the reveal, the evil cousin because there is always one of those, trying to take the crown) and she saves the day because for some reason the previous king can make up new laws without anyone ever finding out about them. She goes home all sad like.
Then of course the 100% expected thing happens. The Prince, now King, shows up in New York and proposes to her. Because of course he does.
The movie genuinely feels as if minimal effort went into making it. It was very paint by numbers. Nothing unique or interesting happens that deviates from what one would expect.
So if you're looking for some Christmas movie pap, go see it!
Amber should have been thrown in jail though.