This movie was cute, but I felt like it could've been a little shorter. Other than that, it is like one of my dreams! Wouldn't it just be great to find a random prince, get married, and become rich? Lol. Good movie but I don't know how I'd feel about watching the sequels or any of that.

Wisconsin university student Paige Morgan (Julia Stiles) has her life planned out. She's the last of her friends to get married. It's all about her studies and her need to get into med school at Johns Hopkins. Eddie (Luke Mably) is the spoiled pampered heir to the royal throne of Denmark. He lives a sheltered life. After seeing a "The Girls of Wisconsin" commercial on TV, he decides to go to university in Wisconsin incognito. His parents are exasperated. He is accompanied by man servant Soren. He is quickly taken with Paige who's working as a bartender. She finds him annoying but he turns up at her class and becomes her permanent lab partner. She doesn't know his position. Of course she eventually falls for him. Then they're ambushed by a couple of paparazzi. Eddie is hopelessly ridiculous and stupid. I guess he is the male version of the adorable clueless princess. It doesn't work at all. It makes him an utterly annoying douche. Julia Stiles is lovely and stops this from being completely unlikeable. Luke Mably doesn't come off at all well. Lucky for him, Julia is good enough to sell this love story by herself. As Eddie's personality improves, the romance does improve. If he started with a nice personality, this would such a better movie and the chemistry would be so much better.

The DVD sat in the Wal-Mart remainder bin, so why not give it a shot? I didn't care for Julia Stiles in other efforts, but was willing to try again.Actually, the film did a good job for the most part. The Paige character was sympathetic and believable. Here was an ambitious Minnesota farm girl willing to do whatever required to transcend her humble beginnings and become the first professional in her family. She was no doubt hugely in debt for the student loans needed to attend college. The plot shows Paige getting an acceptance letter from Johns Hopkins Medical School. This was hard to swallow since the film shows Paige losing her laser focus on her studies due to her growing romance with Prince 'Eddie'. This was bound to reduce her performance during finals week. Paige is shown stumbling around helplessly in her English Literature thesis defense, more focused on Eddie than Othello.The opening scenes in Denmark with Prince Eddie were strange. Does no one in Denmark speak Danish? It was glaring that Luke Mably made no attempt to speak a little Danish in his brief scenes at the outdoor café and car race. I suppose no attempt to cast a Danish actor in the Prince Eddie role was even attempted.There were some good scenes showing Prince Eddie maturing as he learns to survive on his own as the monetary support from home is cut off. The scene of the lawn mower race was very good. Eddie is thrown into competition on his own merits and is pleased to find that he is well able to stand as his own man. Eddie returns to Denmark much more mature and aware of life's realities.I watched the concluding scenes of the film relishing the courage of director Martha Coolidge to end the film in a realistic manner. Paige has realized that she is fundamentally unsuited to be a Queen. She bravely and wisely calls off her engagement to Prince Eddie and returns to her original career path. Then Coolidge loses her nerve. An obviously tacked-on reversal has Eddie appear at Paige's Master's Degree graduation ceremony to announce that whatever delay is required, he will wait for her to complete Medical School and bend royal protocol to allow her to function as a Physician. The romance ends on a high note after all.Well, I see that the Hollywood formula was too strong; it overcome artistic integrity. This weak-kneed collapse almost ruined whatever merit the film had gained.

This is a movie about the oldest existing royal family in the world and they can't even give the danish crown prince a danish name. For the last many hundred years it would have been Christian or Fredrik like the current prince. They could have given him anyone of hundreds danish names even if they did not want to be historically correct but no lets name him after the English royal family instead. I also did not like how Denmark got portrayed as old fashioned when in fact it is very modern. The danish people love their royal family and this portrayed the relationship in a very undanish way. If the film makers wished to make the story take place in a fantasy kingdom they should have done what Disney did in princess diaries, and not insult the Danes. Julia Stiles is what makes this a good movie.