A Christmas Prince (2017)
When a reporter goes undercover as a nanny to get the inside scoop on a playboy prince, she gets tangled in some royal intrigue and ends up finding love - but will she be able to keep up her lie?
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This movie is one I have watched many times a day since I found it on Netflix. If you want to criticize it, you may have other issues. The cast is wonderful--Honor Kneafsey is a very good child star! Both leads (Ben Lamb and Roes McIver) are great and the story is special for this time of year. Sure hope that there will be at least one sequel! There are several that could be made.
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.
This movie is like a pretty Christmas package that you unwrap only to find another layer of packaging and so forth to the center with no actual present ever, but in a good way, because if you actually get to the content of a Christmas present you would find out if anybody actually knows and cares enough to give you a meaningful gift and you never wanted that, you just wanted the cozy feeling of seeing a tree with gifts under it and then the lovely idea that we're all about to be nice to each other for once. This movie is that feeling. You should watch it. I did.
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...