A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding
Chick flick? Has to be. Surely gooey-eyed women are the only ones who would suffer through this tripe, tapping silk handkerchief to eyes as they burble about how beautiful and charming it is. Give me
Die Hard any day. If you’ve seen the original you’ll know what to expect, however according to the critics this “holiday romance” movie fails to capture even the feel of the original. Colour me surprised.
Rotten Tomatoes ratings
Tomatometer: 50%
Audience Score: 33%
IMDB rating
5.2/10
Sigh. Magic has not struck twice for this franchise. Thought
The Decider’s Lea Palmieri while Evan Dossey of
The Midwest Film Journal pronounced it
An overstuffed and desperate sequel that squanders the goodwill of the first film.
Ani Bundel from
NBC News THINK agreed:
The Royal Wedding is actually less entertaining than the original, mostly because it failed to produce more bizarre, fairy-tale inspired sequences - like the "heroine attacked by wolves" scene in the original version.
Writing in
The Pittsburgh Daily Paper, Hannah Lynn noted
This movie is frustrating and lifeless, more so than its Hallmark and Lifetime competitors because it's bad on purpose
And one person who saw it opined
A formulaic sequel, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding is a mildly entertaining yet disappointing Netflix original film. The acting is pretty bad, but then again so is the script; which couldn't be more cliche or trite. There's just no heart in this supposed romantic comedy.