The Reel Rejects - THE PRINCESS DIARIES (2001) IS A ROYAL DELIGHT!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:04 Uh, yeah, we'll just watch the Princess Diaries. If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, give us five stars. Yes, we also want to thank the people over at Prepper for cutting down these highlights. This would not be royalty or possible without you. So thank you.

Starting point is 00:01:21 Thanks. Very much. Johnald Arun What did you think How do you feel After this movie This was

Starting point is 00:01:28 This was absolutely lovely You know I remember being a youngster And it's coming out And you know At the time You're like That's not for me

Starting point is 00:01:38 I'm not a princess Yeah And I don't care About what they write In their diary Or how to become a princess But this was lovely I had such a great time

Starting point is 00:01:49 Watching this And this is the kind of thing I feel like have gotten to share some fun movies of a particular stripe in that, you know, not that they're like, obviously there are a lot of differences, but this made me think of like watching

Starting point is 00:02:02 the parent trap or watching like 13 going on 30 where it's like you have these movies that are like really well rounded. Like they're, yeah, it's a coming of age story and there's a bit of romantic comedy or whoa, what we got? Bloops. Oh! Oh!

Starting point is 00:02:19 Do you hurt yourself? Not right. Just the one. Just the one. Just the one bloop. That's what we needed. Yeah. So it's like you've got this romantic comedy a little bit, mostly a coming of age story,

Starting point is 00:02:32 partly a romantic comedy as well, or at least some element of a romance movie happening. And this is just really well-rounded, I thought. Like, again, this is about a two-hour movie slightly under that. But this really felt like it just had enough time to really breathe and to really set everything up and to really feel natural, like, all of the different ebbs and flows of the story and the character relationships, for the most part, felt very natural and well-observed and realized. And, like, this had a lot of grace. Like, it was fun and funny at times, but also it was just, like, really, I don't know,

Starting point is 00:03:06 I keep coming back to that, like, just well-rounded, like, you know, minus, like, you know, the Mr. Robot doesn't think doesn't really turn into anything. But other than that, like, everything else gets tied around really nicely. All the supporting cast is really well-chosen and, like, all the different presences. like it has to juggle a couple of things because not only is it like a coming of age high school movie, it's also this, you know, ascending to, you know, some sort of status or power kind of situation as well. And I could imagine a version of this that would be jammed with too many things or a version of this that's a little too madcap or whatever. But like this, yeah, had the right tone of comedy.

Starting point is 00:03:43 It was the right tone of touching. It was the right kind of earnest while also providing that contrast you need between like the regal. poise that it takes to be a royal versus, you know, just the laid-back carefreeness slash anxieties of being, you know, a kid or a teenager. And, yeah, I thought this did the school stuff nicely. Like, yeah, there are some tropey characters in there, but a lot of the performances and especially the characters who matter more to the immediate plot, you know, her friend, you know, Lily, her boy who works at the car shop and all that stuff. Like, you know, they felt really genuine as presences on screen.

Starting point is 00:04:24 And then, yeah, you have, like, Mandy Moore and her gang who are a little bit more like, you know, movie characters. But it felt appropriate for them to be a little bit more like movie characters because they're not the point. And, you know, they do serve to be these foils. So I'm okay that we don't have to get, like, super deep into who those guys are. Like, yeah, this seemed to have, like, the right focus on the right things. And it really nicely presented this argument about, yeah, like, wanting to live a normal life and just be, you know, out of the spotlight and just, you know, find your own way versus, yeah, being, you know, sort of introduced to this huge responsibility

Starting point is 00:05:01 slash opportunity, you know, this whole other life and world. And, you know, this is the little debates about like, why didn't, why we didn't tell you about this and her response to that. And, you know, the debate and the sort of arc from her going to, from completely opposed to this to like open to it to kind of accepting of it and then the debate at the end of like no but this is becoming real do i actually want this or not i'm freaking out like all that stuff felt just like really natural really genuine and was really lovely to watch especially given that the performances are so natural and so lovely too and i don't know if this is anne hathaway's first movie but this is definitely like a splash like she definitely like everybody on the supporting cast i really

Starting point is 00:05:42 enjoyed and obviously julie andrews is a veteran is you know one of our you know Hall of Fame, great actors. But, you know, Anne Hathaway, like, she's got to be able to carry this movie. And I can absolutely see how this at least made her a star, if not, you know, if this wasn't her first film, I could at least see how this was the one that, like, catapulted her to, you know, the road that, you know, led her to where she is now as an actor. And, yeah, like, this was just so nicely hewn. And, yeah, big props to Gary Marshall. I feel like this flavor is, is his bag. or at least that's what I associate with a Gary Marshall movie and I thought this was

Starting point is 00:06:20 yeah really well done what did you think I thought it was lovely I had a really good time watching it I think you know echo similar sentiments that you had shared there yeah I thought all of the supporting cast is really nice I thought that just the energy and the vibe of the movie was really really light and really fun it really gave us this beautiful sense of what the city first of all what her world was like you know really like getting that feel of what San Francisco was like, but also just all of her supporting cast and just the weight of what it would be to have something so life-altering come within your sphere in the middle of you trying to figure out who you are as a person in life.

Starting point is 00:07:03 And the reluctance to the call makes total sense. You know, you're just trying to figure out you, and here comes the responsibility of the fate of an entire nation. And how people react to that around you. Exactly. And I feel like Ann Hathway did such a good job at walking that line between someone who was nerdy and kind of clumsy, but also being super endearing at the same time. And I like the way that even through her transformational phase, she was still her. You know, the physical didn't change the internal, at least not for the negative connotations, which we would assume, what happened. And it's funny that even though her external changed, the immediate reaction of the world around her was one as if the internal had changed.

Starting point is 00:07:52 Like, oh, she's a pretty girl now. Oh, she's going to be with, we want to associate her because she's, looks like one of the popular girls or even her friend being kind of jealous and scared that she's going to abandon her. Also, if that kind of makes sense when somebody goes through a major life change like that. And I'm happy that she didn't kind of let the princess thing in the. The reframing of her parents kind of get to her head. I like that she maintained her authenticity throughout. Well, except for, you know, she utilized the opportunity of that. Not her changing things.

Starting point is 00:08:30 She's better than other people, but her stemming from that place of insecurity and feeling invisible, now having the light on her to then see Josh and go to the thing, but then realizing that's not what she wants but i don't think that's ultimately representative of her becoming another person but her more so fulfilling the things that she never thought was possible and then realizing okay no the the life and people i have my sphere are more genuine to who i am as a person so i really like that aspect of things yeah i thought the julie andrews was very nice he was very um authentic but also very regal and super charming as well and i like that she was this guiding force for her to kind of

Starting point is 00:09:16 gracefully transition into that even though obviously there was a little bit of riff there for sure and the mom was super nice I like the relationship with the mom I didn't even remember I have vague vague vague memories of maybe watching this as a kid but I didn't watching it right now I don't remember anything about it and I had no idea there was a mom character in this

Starting point is 00:09:37 so yeah I thoroughly enjoyed it man I think that it's awesome that the coming out with a third one. I hope that you guys really like this. We can watch two. Yeah. Yeah, I'd be excited to watch part two. I mean, like this works really nicely as something that does not need to expand.

Starting point is 00:09:54 Right. But I would happily come back to this world and these characters. And, uh, and yeah, I would agree. Like, her transformation over time feels very natural and even, you know, it's, it's a natural part of the story of, you know, having the high school glow up that you get suckered into the popular sphere. whatever or you lose yourself a little bit. But I thought that this had a really nice way of handling that where it didn't feel

Starting point is 00:10:19 like, yeah, she became a totally other person or something like that. Like, you get how it really felt like somebody just caught up in the excitement of like, oh my God, this guy I've had a crush on forever wants to go to this thing with me, you know, and I'm forgetting about my, you know, commitments I made to my other friends and stuff like that. And it, yeah, just felt like a real human portrayal of that whilst in fitting with, you know, the tone of the movie. and I feel like it would be easy to lose yourself

Starting point is 00:10:44 like have her become like a total mean girl and then have to be redeemed like it's not that it's it's yeah she does a couple of things that are kind of shitty you know as a friend but it's yeah drawn in a way that just makes a lot of sense and that feels very natural and to that thing with her friend with Lily

Starting point is 00:10:59 when yeah she is like really laying it on thick when she gets the new hair and she has to tell her off like that stuff like their relationship got me teary at one point when they're on the court later on when she's like doing the big apology because like yeah I thought that that friendship was really natural again it was like a really natural feeling thing and that could have become even more of sort of like a big blow up like oh I hate you but it's not like and and the ebb and flow of

Starting point is 00:11:28 their dynamic together felt like again two people in high school coming of age who are yeah navigating this and sometimes they don't make the best choices and and yeah it didn't feel like movie plot mechanics so much it felt like They actually, that's the thing. It's like the runtime, I think, allowed them to really just gracefully do these things. And I appreciate that because this is one of those movies that, yeah, like, I watch and I think to myself, like, yeah, obviously, it's a family movie. It's probably aimed at younger kids or younger people, tweens, people, the age of Mia. But at the same time, this is one of those movies that I feel like just works well as a film in general.

Starting point is 00:12:03 And you could show it to anybody. Yeah, anybody who's open to it might probably like it. And I, too, love that they did, you know, just naturally make the setting such a character without going, like, too Hogwild with, like, making it a travelogue. Like, you just really got the flavor of being in San Francisco. And, you know, that's a place that all, that has, like, a cinematic history anyway. It's been lensed a lot of times in a lot of notable movies, but especially because you have this idea of, you're going to this, you know, faraway place, you know, between France and Spain. whatever they said, you know, it's cool to have a setting that is so kind of counter to what you would imagine Genovia to be, but that has this real sense of life. It's got a very unique

Starting point is 00:12:52 architecture and stuff like that. And it does have that trope of like, I don't know exactly. I guess her mom seems like she does pretty well for them because they live in this like beautiful, multiple stories, sort of like art den. But even that was like nicely lived in. And I wasn't distracted by the fact of like, how can you afford this freaking firehouse in San Francisco, which is not a cheap city to live in? But yeah, there's just so many flourishes and so many details that were really nice. And then, yeah,

Starting point is 00:13:16 you have some like funny stuff with the other royal people who are, you know, on hand to be like, how undignified. But yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought this did nicely, like this prioritized the right things. And I thought it made for a very fun and

Starting point is 00:13:34 enjoyable, but also touching experience. agree. So if you had to guess, what do you think the critics gave this one? $200 million budget. Do the critics? We'll do critics and then audience. 90%. 90%? 90% critics.

Starting point is 00:13:52 Okay. Is that Franelanza? Yes. 49%. What? They didn't like this at all. Damn. It was very divisive back in 2001. Damn, I should have gone with my earlier guess of 80-something percent. which would still be off.

Starting point is 00:14:08 I'm surprised. Damn, 45. What do you think audiences gave it? 85. 68. People didn't like this.

Starting point is 00:14:17 Damn. I wonder why. I don't know. That's so lame. A charming, a familiar makeover movie for young teenage girls. That's what they said.

Starting point is 00:14:27 I mean, maybe it's because I haven't watched every charming, you know, makeover girl for teens. But I don't know. I thought this, yeah, did a...

Starting point is 00:14:36 I've seen worse versions of this you know yeah it's not reinventing any of the wheels necessarily but it is i thought it rolled them nicely and gracefully and i thought again everybody they got together to be part of this was game yeah you know it's a fine movie it's a fun movie yeah 58% fresh or 58 critics said it was fresh 60 said it was rotten wow it's pretty cheeks pretty booty cheeks bummer bummer yeah all right yeah let's get a little triv did she actually fall on the steps in that scene i want to know i want to know as well what would you guys rate the movie are we totally off base here i mean they the thing is you know this i guess must have at least

Starting point is 00:15:21 been popular enough that they went on to make sequels and stuff like that i feel like yeah this is i can see this become being the type of movie that uh isn't um as well received at the time and then probably picked up appreciation as it went as time went along or something like that i don't know because also too early 2000s disney i feel like that's there are many eras of disney and i would be curious to go back and see like you know what else was happening what else they were trying to do at the time um but yeah let's get to the trivia let's get to the trivoli uh because too i know there were some like there are certain movies from this era that got a lot of reworking and stuff like that.

Starting point is 00:16:02 And even in the animated department. Hey, it's the first. It's the first fact. It's the first fact. The scene where Mia slipped and falls on the bleachers was real. And Hathaway had slipped in a puddle while doing the scene. And director Gary Marshall thought it was so funny. He inserted it in the final cut.

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Starting point is 00:20:26 during auditions and Hathaway fell out of her chair and was immediately given apart as Gloomsey would be a thermophilus. That's great. That's amazing. Oh, my God. Oh, apparently we had a cameo from Lauren Maltby, then Disney

Starting point is 00:20:42 Channel movie surfer helped edit one of the trailers for this movie and had a cameo in the beach party scene. Go, Lauren Maltby. I remember the movie surfers. I think If I'm not mistaken, I didn't really know him very well and I don't remember what his name was,

Starting point is 00:20:58 but there was a movie surfer who went to our school growing up or whatever. Oh, no way. Gary Marshall wrote the retainer scene after learning Anne Hathaway had worn a retainer when she was younger, but found it difficult to speak while wearing it. Hathaway brought in her old retainer for the scene, and now that retainer is in the Smithsonian Museum.

Starting point is 00:21:17 That's right. It was Anne Hathaway's idea that the brush should break in her hair at the start of her makeover, and this is the theatrical movie debut of Anna Hathaway. I wonder if she maybe had some TV credits or something like that. When Michael, Robert Schwartzman, comes with Mia's car. Mia is watching one of the deleted scenes from the movie.

Starting point is 00:21:39 It was also Hathaway's idea to have the poor strip on her nose during this scene. That's bonkers. How did they get that? Because at that time, it was just film. They would have had to have developed that film and then put it on a tape or something. Yeah, that's interesting. uh that's fun uh let's see anne hathaway had to wear a thick clip in hair piece to give her as much uh a hair hair hair hair a much bushyer appearance hair paste became known as the beast by casting crew her pre makeup i uh pre makeover eyebrows took an hour to apply as each tiny hair was individually glued on jesus christ church i mean you know that makes sense i guess that's good attention to detail uh one of the waiters in the dinner scene when mea breaks the water glass says it happens all the time.

Starting point is 00:22:25 Same actor played a waiter and Pretty Woman, 1990, and said the same line when Julia Roberts flings the snail and the waiter catches it. Both movies were directed by Gary Marshall as well and featured Hector Elizondo and Larry Miller. So, shared universe. Let's see, the autograph seekers, Lily and Charlotte, are Gary Marshall's twin granddaughters,

Starting point is 00:22:48 also one of the buildings in the school. I caught this at one point, yeah, It was named Lily and Charlotte Grove building. Dame Julie Andrew's jewelry and tiara for the final part of the movie was $500,000 worth of diamonds on loan from Harry Winston. Anna Hathaway's tiara was made specifically for her and was considered cheaper, considerably cheaper, because instead of diamonds, her tiara was comprised of cubic zirconia. Fake? Fake? Oh, I need to apparently, ooh, let's see.

Starting point is 00:23:23 Her dress, the Perry Winkle one, is a copy of the dress from the Cron Princessin Victoria of Sweden War to the Nobel Prize Gala in 1997. Oh, golly. Let's see. Let's go down to the spoilers really quick. And I also want to check on the on-screen relationship between Queen Clarice Rinaldi, James Julie Andrews, and Joseph Hector Alessando was not script. The dance scene and the underlying affection was added by the two. According to Hector Elizondo, we felt that a romance after 50 was important to tell, and it can be sensual and sexy while keeping your clothes on.

Starting point is 00:24:00 I thought they... That was nice. I thought they nailed that. I think they did too. That was beautiful. This is a lovely little thread, and it was all it needed to be. For the first act of the movie, Queen Clarice Rinaldi wears only black and dark outfits. Right before her dance with Joe, he says, you've been wearing black too long.

Starting point is 00:24:16 after the dance scene, Clarice starts to add more color to her wardrobe. It was later revealed in the movie that her husband, King Rupert, had passed away the previous year, as well as losing her son, who is Mia's father. This means that at the start of the movie, she was still mourning his death, but as she falls in love with Joe, her personality once again becomes alive and colorful. That is lovely. That was so sweet. That is beautiful. I love that.

Starting point is 00:24:41 Last thing I'm going to check. Bonjourno, Principais. Every time that guy said that, that's all I can. think of was Roberto Benini. It's a novel. Okay. Well, that would make some sense, too. Not bad.

Starting point is 00:24:55 Not bad. Meg Cabo. Have you had any other things adapted? Maybe Ice Princess. Descendants. Okay. A lot of Disney's. Let's see.

Starting point is 00:25:05 I just want to check on that. One lady who was in the friggin thing. Bonnie Arons, it was her. Baroness Joy von Trojan. Oh, I think if she's the nun. She's in a bunch of stuff. She's the nun. She's the nun.

Starting point is 00:25:17 Yeah, she's in a lot of, like, horror stuff. And, and, yeah, she does, like, character things. And, yeah, she is, like, the nun. So I thought that was just a funny, just, you know, cool to see her in actual just face and on screen for real. That's right. She's in the fighter. She's in a bunch of drag me to hell.

Starting point is 00:25:35 That's right. Yeah. I know who killed me. I want to watch that movie. Anyhow. Gang. Yay, you got any other stray thoughts before we go to the royal coronation? I don't think I do. Do you have any more thoughts?

Starting point is 00:25:49 No, just the critics don't know what they're talking about, man. They're losing it. They don't know. They don't know what the people like me love. Well, anyway. People like me, people like Kim, people like us, the people like you. Gang, what did you think of the Princess Diaries? What is your Rotten Tomatoes score?

Starting point is 00:26:06 Should we watch the second movie? Is it good? I won't trust the Rotten Tomatoes on it now. That's the problem. It's like it could. Sequel, maybe it's not that good. But also, if they give it like a 45% I'm like, well, that's what you said the first time. Exactly. They're tripping.

Starting point is 00:26:21 They're tripping, guys, but we're not tripping. So until next time, we love you and we'll see you in the next video.

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