![]() That scene where they eat popcorn and decide who Mia is going to marry “I have my own mall! Any movie with a three minute scene involving a walk-in wardrobe with drawers and drawers of tiny sunglasses (this was 2004, which means that all the fashion is suddenly on trend again), is fine by me. Long before Glossier grabbed millennial pink in a stranglehold, Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi, Princess of Genovia, was sitting on a millennial pink couch in her palatial suite and jumping up and down on her enormous bed in a millennial pink dress. We should build entire cities in tribute to the way Andrews delivers that line. ![]() The way Julie Andrews delivers the line “I will personally get some ice for that foot” Who could even concentrate with him next to you? Image: The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement 6. Such fun! Anyway, when that gorgeous snake Nicholas tries to worm his way into Mia’s heart, you know that he’ll end up falling for her and he’ll have to renounce his playboy past and become a changed man. Because people in teen movies who enter into fake relationships always end up catching feelings for each other and the fake relationship becomes a real relationship. Give me a fake relationship in a teen movie and I’m a happy girl. That pink poncho that Mia wears to be told she has to have an arranged marriageĪbject despair at the patriarchal bullshit that women have to put up with… but make it fashion! 5. Princess Diaries: A Royal Engagement is a movie that assumes that Queen Julie Andrews is the kind of Queen who would keep a manicured, oversized poodle and quite frankly this is the correct assumption. This is what Nicholas (Pine) says to Mia (Anne Hathaway) during their first dance together, and also what I would like to say to Pine himself, although by ‘step’ I mean and by ‘foot’ I mean ! 3. The line “You can step on my foot anytime” Image: The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement 2. (And no, they’re not all about Chris Pine*.)Īn iconic dance number. ![]() Here are 15 reasons why this movie rules. This month, the 2004 movie celebrates its 15th anniversary. That’s right lads, we’re talking about Princess Diaries: A Royal Engagement. It is important to draw this line in the sand up top, though, because we are about to discuss the best Hollywood Chrises’ debut film, a sequel in a beloved franchise that was immeasurably improved by his presence to the point of maybe eclipsing its predecessor. Champion your Evanses and your Hemsworths and your Messinas and your Martins and even your Pratts, if you must, but I shall not be moved. You may disagree with me – God knows, many have in the past – but this leopard steadfastly refuses to change its spots. ![]() Loath as I am to relitigate past debates, I must establish right now that this story takes as canon that Chris Pine is the best Hollywood Chris. ![]()
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