The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Directed by	Garry Marshall
Produced by	Whitney Houston
Written by	Meg Cabot (characters) Shonda Rhimes
Starring	Anne Hathaway Julie Andrews John Rhys-Davies Raven Symoné Chris Pine Heather Matarazzo
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)	August 11, 2004 (USA)
Running time	113 min.
Language	English
Budget	US$40,000,000
Followed by	The Princess Diaries 3
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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement is the 2004 sequel to 2001's The Princess Diaries. It was also supposed to have a sequel, The Princess Diaries 3.

Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, and Heather Matarazzo return to portray their characters from the first Princess Diaries film, Princess Mia Thermopolis, Queen Clarisse Renaldi, Joe (Mia's bodyguard) and Lilly Moscovitz, respectively. Garry Marshall returned to direct and Debra Martin Chase to produce the sequel.

New characters include Viscount Mabrey (John Rhys-Davies), Lord Nicholas Devereaux (Chris Pine, in his film debut) and Andrew Jacoby (Callum Blue).

[edit] Plot

In the film, Mia Thermopolis journeys to Genovia for vacation after graduating from college before taking up her job as princess of Genovia. She continues her royalty lessons and prepares herself to take up the throne as queen of Genovia. However, the Viscount Mabrey, who wants his nephew to rule as king, brings up a little known--and rarely enforced--law that a princess must marry before taking the throne. The Genovian Parliament gives Mia thirty days to marry.

Mia, with her romantic fantasies of true love, is aghast to discover the only way to prevent Genovia from falling into Lord Nicholas Devereaux's (Mabrey's nephew) hands is an arranged marriage. After seeing a list of choices, Mia chooses Andrew Jacoby, the Duke of Kenilworth.

Mabrey is furious and decides to have his nephew Nicholas romance Mia, so she falls in love with him and doesn't marry Andrew. However, Nicholas starts to have second thoughts about his uncle's deceitful plans. He and Mia actually, accidentally do fall in love, but Mia still chooses to marry Andrew because she believes it is her duty to her country.

Nicholas travels to the wedding on a Penny-farthing in order to stop his uncle from seizing the throne. Mia changes her mind about marrying Andrew at the last minute and presents a speech broadcasted throughout Genovia as to her reasons for not marrying and requests that they accept her as queen. Mabrey takes advantage of the fact Mia has been highly unorthodox and claims she has no respect for Genovian laws and traditions. Nicholas arrives and denounces his uncle's claims and acknowledges Mia's right to the throne. Mia asks Parliament to change the law and, to Mabrey's chagrin, they agree.

Rather than letting all the wedding preparation go to waste, Queen Clarisse and Joe, who have been having a sort-of romance since the death of Clarisse's husband, decide to marry. This is often seen as an example of fan service, since the pairing of Clarisse and Joe was extremely popular among fans of the first film.

On the morning of Mia's coronation, she questions if she would be a capable ruler. Nicholas appears before her to reassure her. He admits his feelings for her and inquires if she feels the same, to which she responds that she does. The story ends with Mia's coronation as Queen of Genovia and scenes of a slowly changing Genovia under her rule.

[edit] Cast

• Anne Hathaway (Mia Thermopolis)
• Julie Andrews (Queen Clarisse Renaldi)
• Hector Elizondo (Joe)
• John Rhys-Davies (Viscount Mabrey)
• Heather Matarazzo (Lilly Moscovitz)
• Chris Pine (Nicholas Deveraux)
• Callum Blue (Andrew Jacoby)
• Kathleen Marshall (Charlotte Kutaway)
• Tom Poston (Lord Palimore)
• Raven-Symoné (Asana)
• Larry Miller (Paolo)
• Shea Curry (Lady's Maid Brigitte)
• Anna A. White (Lady's Maid Brigitta)
• Cassie Rowell (Lady's Maid Olivia)
• Jennifer Jackson (Lady's Maid Priscilla)
• Erik Bragg (Security Guard Lionel)
• Scott Marshall (Security Guard Shades)
• Claudia Katz (Palace Housekeeper Freda)
• Allan Kent (Braclet Palace Footman)
• Wesley Horton(Tiara Palace Footman)
• Alec Nemser(Dancing Palace Footman Felix)
• Jon Ligget (Queen Clarisse's Palace Footman)
• Jane Morris (Servant Girl)

[edit] Soundtrack

Main Article: Princess Diaries (album)

[edit] Cast Interviews

• Julie Andrews The Princess Diaries 2

[edit] Trivia

• Anne Hathaway's mother and director Gary Marshall have brief appearances in the film. Hathaway's mother was the leader of the chorus singing at Mia's wedding while Marshall was the middle drummer (the one on the left) in the coronation scene.
• The jewelry worn by Mia and Queen Renaldi's characters was all real. A guard was on set at all times.
• Tagline: You are cordially invited to the royal event of the season. R.S.V.P. This Summer.
• At the end of the first movie, The Princess Diaries, Princess Mia is being flown over to the castle in Genovia. In the sequel, it portrays an entirely different castle.
• When Queen Clarisse reacts to the fact that Princess Mia is not the first for the crown, the line she says is exactly the same as the one Mia says when Mia finds out she's a princess.
• Julie Andrews' granddaughter, Hannah Schneider is in this movie, her character being called 'Dancing Princess Hannah.'
• Joseph says to Viscount Mabrey that he has "diplomatic immunities in 46 countries, including Puerto Rico." The joke is that actor Hector Elizondo (Joseph) is a Puerto Rican-American.
• A sequel was planned, however, it was cancelled.
• The Genovian motto, "Totus corpus laborat," is bad Latin. Since "corpus" is neuter, the motto, which means "the entire body works," should read: "totum corpus laborat."
• Writer and creator of The Princess Diaries' series, Meg Cabot did not like the sequel and repeatedly mentioned all of the liberties the movie took, in the sixth Princess Diaries book, Princess in Training.
• The song I Decide was performed by Lindsay Lohan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YET6Nk10Ew
• Marvel comic book creator, Stan Lee, makes an appearance in the movie as the "Three Stooges Wedding Guest".
• At the start of the film, when Mia is explaining how her mother surprised her by marrying her teacher, the footage that's seen is from a scene that was deleted from the first film (the teacher got paint on his shirt sleeve, and in the scene that follows, he takes his shirt off just as Mia walks in after her makeover and catches him shirtless).

[edit] External links

• The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement at the Internet Movie Database