The Prince & Me 2004

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It takes so long to find its own bliss that it ends up being more like The Never-ending Love Story. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: You might say that when it comes to misfires, this Prince rules. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's yet another well-meaning story about following both your heart and your dream, occasionally sweet yet overly familiar and overlong. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A movie that looks like a cosmetics ad and often sounds like one, too. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... thumbs down for me ... Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Stiles is simply delightful. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: This is a smart piece of revisionist fluff that dares to question what happens after the royal honeymoon is over. Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: A blandly diverting, chastely conceived and grammatically challenged fairy tale for our bland, chaste and grammatically challenged age. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: A predictable exercise in boy-girl mush amid royalty's seductions. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Naive wish-fulfillment fantasy of surface charm. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: For the most part, the prettily photographed The Prince & Me is disposable. Read more

Ron Stringer, L.A. Weekly: Falls, finally and irrevocably, flat. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: The conventional romantic frou-frou -- replete with oppressively alternative singer-songwriter ballads with their plot-mortar lyrics -- ratchets everything down to the level of brain-death. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Sappily-ever-after fairy tale. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Despite a few magic moments, the rest of the film feels stale. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Julia Stiles is such a fetching actress that her sincerity camouflages make-believe better than anything you can buy at Bergdorf's. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: This soggy contemporary fairy tale is a cinematic cream puff with a melted marshmallow inside it. Read more

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: The realism clashes with the princess-fantasy story. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's easy enough to recommend The Prince & Me as a romantic comedy. The movie wants to be more than that, but the muddled way in which it divulges its themes occasionally makes it suffer from a split personality. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The Prince & Me has the materials to be a heartwarming mass-market love story, but it doesn't assemble them convincingly. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: As pleasant to watch as a fairy tale, but it's smarter than a fairy tale. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A fairy tale that viewers outside its target audience are likely to find corny and cliched. Read more

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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Scenes that are supposed to be lyrical lie limp; chemistry that is designed to be sparked remains dormant; jokes that are meant to be bright stay dim. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: The sound you hear is the death rattle of the women's movement. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: Even its pre-teen audience could use a bit more quirkiness and a little less formula. Read more

Scott Foundas, Variety: Totally cliched and nearly two hours long, pic takes forever to get to hopelessly obvious places. Read more

Ed Park, Village Voice: Paige eventually comes to a self-affirming decision, but the Danish interlude succeeds too well in making us feel her boredom. Read more