The Prince and Me (Le prince et moi) (Widescreen)(2010) Julia Stiles

Feel good movie!

The Prince and Me falls into two related genres - Romantic Comedy and "Cinderella Story". As a romantic comedy it is just average and includes several cliches that drive me crazy in this genre.There are MANY romantic comedies where one character has a secret they hide from their love interest. In "Prince and Me" the secret is that "Eddie", the Danish student who shows up one day at the University of Wisconsin (played convincingly by Luke Mably) is actually the Prince and soon to be King of Denmark. (It is extremly convenient for us that all the Danes in the film including the royal family, prime minister, servants and paparazzi all speak English exclusively!) Our heroine, a farm-girl pre-med student, is played by Julia Stiles, and Ms. Stiles continues a budding acting career where she plays women of depth and character. Her Paige Morgan is accepted to Johns Hopkins Medical School around the same time she discovers Eddie is a Prince, and she aspires to work as a Doctor in an underserved country.Prince Edvard GOES to Wisconsin because he's one of those Euro-trashy princes in the beginning of the movie and he sees an ad for one of those videos where college girls pull their shirts up, and *these* girls happen to be from Wisconsin. Bent on meeting sleazy young girls at the U of W Edvard immediately becomes fixated on the least sleazy, most-principaled woman in sight.When the scene comes where Paige discovers Eddie is the Crown Prince she doesn't think "hey.... the hunky guy I was just kissing in the library is actually a PRINCE!" Instead she shrieks at him "you lied to me!" (which is only true for those who consider that a lie can include what you don't say - Eddie only tells Paige that he has to "go into the family business" when he returns to Denmark.)The King is ill at this exact moment and Edvard must jet back to Copenhagen, which leads to one of the better done Romantic Comedy cliche-moments, the one where one character flies off after the lovers have had a tiff, only to have the other character come flying after them on the next plane. (If you think I've given anything away here, you haven't seen many Romantic Comedies.)The third act begins here as Paige arrives in Denmark, is reunited with Edvard, and begins to contemplate a possible life as Queen of Denmark. During the breakfast where it first dawns on her that this is possible she suddenly looks uncertain. "Do you think the people will mind if I'm the Queen of Denmark and all I've seen is the airport?"The Cinderella tale gets a thoroughly modern and believable upgrade, and it must have been difficult for Martha Coolidge and the screenwriters to generate the required romantic conflict for the characters who seem to have everything. Paige is not only the girl getting to go to Johns Hopkins, but the Prince falls in love with her too? There's conflict here?Okay - it's not the best Romantic Comedy ever. But it's not the worst either.

My daughter has been begging to watch this for the past 5 months. We couldn’t find it on any streaming platforms that didn’t cost money to rent so I decided t buy it for her so she can watch it whenever she wants. Love this movie soo much…

Disclaimer: I am not this film's target audience. This is a film that was made for 15-30 year old women, and I'm a man of the same age bracket.There are three kinds of chick flicks out there. There are the kind that men don't mind watching and may secretly kind of like (see Sleepless in Seattle), the kind that men could do without but will tolerate (see Ghost) and the kind that guys hate (see How to Make an American Quilt). This film falls into the middle category.The Prince and Me has what seems to me to be your basic chick flick plot - girl is independent, meets arrogant guy, girl changes guy, guy changes girl, they fall in love. The twist here, of course, is that the guy happens to be royalty so there's a fairy tale quality about the end of the film. The plot is not the major problem here, as it does have a couple of interesting twists.The problem is the execution of the first 30 minutes of the film, which are disjointed and uninteresting. There is a substantial amount of time spent setting up Paige (Julia Stiles)as independent and driven, and some of the scenes dealing with this topic are forced and repetitive. The same is true for the Prince (Luke Mably), though his scenes are considerably more interesting due to comic relief provided by Soren (Ben Miller), the prince's man servant. Overall, the beginning of the film is poorly acted, directed, and written, and frankly was not interesting enough to hold my attention.This is a shame, because after the Prince and Paige fall in love the film picks up, the writing is crisper, and the direction seems to be better. The subplot with Soren becoming addicted to XBox is absolutely hysterical even though it only consumes a few seconds of screen time. Once the scene shifts to Denmark the film becomes much more engaging, though the last five minutes, with a cop-out to please the mass market, are disappointing.The DVD has a couple of special features worth watching. The commentary from director Martha Coolidge (who directed one of my favorite films, Real Genius) is above average and has a nice mix of technical film insider stuff about camera angles and insightful commentary into some of the characters. There is a featurette about the lawnmower racing sequence (really, the guy's highlight to the film) that is definately worth watching. The gag reel is average, as are the other featurettes, though it does provide the alternate (read original) ending.Overall, this film gets 0 stars for the first 30 minutes, three stars thereafter, and 4 for the DVD features. Guys won't like the film unless they're on a date, but they'll at least be able to tolerate it if they can get past the first 30 minutes.

This takes itself seriously and works a lot better than the sequels which go for farce. It is very much a hallmark type plot and production. Disgraced Prince incognito at far away University meets down to earth sensible farm girl, gets a wake up call in life, contrasting skills and characters, unlikely love blossoms, challenges then arise. The bare bones sounds cheesy but the strong script gives a good cast what they need to make it credible and work well. Despite the inevitable weak-stereotypes, there is enough heavy and intelligent writing and interesting plot development to make the narrative really engage well. Weak dialog in places is mostly around protocol and manners. The writers miss a few open goals and do a fumbling job in a few other places but underlying ideas and quality holds it together well.Julia Styles carries the film! She dominates what is quite a challenging role. Martha Coolidge directs well, though is clearly playing with a limited cast and budget (the same extras pop up prominently (and inappropriately) in too many scenes). Some other class actors are in the mix though: James Fox, Miranda Richardson, Ben Miller. Poor Ben Miller as the equerry, has stilted dialog which defuses his usual comedic charms. Mably does OK but Stiles out-masses him on every level! Acting from the american bit part actors is extremely professional and very convincing.I was pleasantly surprised and got this DVD for the collection. You do NOT need the sequels (which suffer from the lack of Julia Styles and Martha Coolidge). The sequels descend into cheap farce and quickly lost my interest with clumsier script, stereotypical villains and predictable plot. This first in the series, is of a higher order of quality altogether, nearly a classic, and for my money better than 'Princess Diaries' (which also suffers from stilted dialog).RECOMMENDED

I have really enjoyed this film as it takes you through all the honest emotions of love. The leading lady of this film is Paige (Julia Stiles), who plays a University student who is focused on achieving the grades she requires to go forward to become a Doctor. All is going to plan, when in walks (Eddie) Luke Mably as the Crown Prince of Denmark. The Prince enters the University not wishing to announce he is a Prince and more interested in the Student lifestyle after classes. The story brings the two together, as they realise that they each know the subject in which the other is failing, this is the when love blooms. The love crashes when Edvard the Crown Prince has to return to Denmark to takeover the crown from his ailing Father the King. Both actors deserve credit for their performance as they take you through times of comedy and deep emotions of love. The question remains, Can love win through?

I bought it because I saw it on the RV and like it a lot.This is a good light comedy with a first class cast. Excellent direction, fabulous clothes when at the palace, haven't seen such exquisite taste for a long time .It has all the good qualities to fully entertain any audience.The quality of the DVD was perfect, and it arrived extremely fast. thank you!

Julia (Ten things I hate about you, Save the last Dance) is better than this movie. The prince is a bit of a prat and not overly good looking. The film passes the time nicely but I don't want to watch it again and the story was a bit far fetched! Very American!

Kind of a guilty pleasure. No foul language, no sex, no violence. Just a pleasant romantic modern-day fairy tale with a happy ending.worthy production values and good acting - the two leads just set the right tone