A Christmas Prince (2017)

Well Deserved Praise

Waste of time

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Overrated and overhyped

I was forced into watching A Christmas Prince, so I was already salty about it when the opening credits rolled. Since my viewing experience was influenced by my current emotions, I decided to watch it again, to give it a fair chance. I still didn't really like this movie. It took a few ideas from various areas of Disney (i.e. The Princess Diaries, Beauty and the Beast, Enchanted) and even then the story was rather weak. The settings are beautiful, and the costumes are great too, however that doesn't save this movie from being average at best. With every character a cliché, every joke being unoriginal and predictable (rather like the main story), and a leading actress who seems to be trying way to hard to be Reese Witherspoon, I couldn't find myself liking this movie. However, I am not the target audience. This is meant to be a family Christmas film, and it succeeds at being so. Therefore, it is good, due to the fact that it is successful at what it is trying to be.

I have seen other Netflix productions of high quality, this is not one of them. What happened here I do not know, after watching the movie I am left with the impression that this was made in a hurry.The base story line is actually ok and had potential, this is a light feel good romantic Christmas story, so the basic story is exactly what we who love this type of movies are looking for. Unfortunately, the film is ruined by bad acting, over caricatured characters, bad writing and poor dialog, also bad/cheap quality in the production. For example, seeing pictures of the newspapers web sites, they don't even look like real web pages, and that should not be a hard thing to make.I think children probably will like this, with the over simplification and over characterizing that often helps children understanding the story, for us adults it is painful to watch. The look of the castle in Christmas lights is stunning and beautiful. The casting of actors Ben Lamb as the Prince and Alice Krige as the Queen is a good match, but they can only do so much with the lines they have been given.Summary: If only Netflix had spent some more time in developing the dialog and story and looked for better actors this could have been great.

I watched this movie with my family this Christmas and we all regret it. It was a very simple movie: You can literally predict everything that happens after only watching 10 minutes. If you are above the age of 10 I would not recommend watching this movie.I thought it was very unrealistic how they handled all their problems and some things were just too easily ignored, while we were all sitting here like "What are they doing? Why is nobody noticing/commenting on this?" Another thing that really bothered me (although I know that it sounds superficial) was the height difference between Amber/Martha and prince Richard. She literally looked like his little sister. It really could have been better casted if you'd ask me. I decided to give this a 5/10, because I can understand little kids might enjoy this movie. So if this movie is meant for children (which I assume it is), it's entertaining and doesn't deserve a horrible grade, although it's still not a high quality movie.5/10. -Imme van Gorp

I was looking into this movie optimistically but was pretty disappointed. First off, the only countries in central Europe who still have acclaimed royal families are Belgium and Spain, and although Aldovia is obviously a made up location, it wouldn't make sense for the Prince to have a British accent. The plot was bland and incredibly predictable, if you've ever watched one of the god awful Esquire Network films, this will remind you dearly of those. The dialogue at some points was what most people would now a days call cringy and awkward. The only good I saw in it was some well done cinematography of what looked like the little Austrian Alps towns, because how could you not like those.