This movie surprised me because despite its teen audience draw and unoriginal Cinderella storyline I really liked it. Maybe I was drawn in by the romantic wish-fulfilment fantasy as I'm far from the target audience but the story grew on me (initially I wasn't that impressed).By the end though I was really rooting for our couple and actually unsure as to how they were going to get their HEA. I also appreciated how they addressed the fact that pre-med student 'Paige' would be giving up her entire life for her prince and that maybe, as glamorous as it seemed this wasn't the life she wanted. I always enjoy Julia Stilles and she does a good job here.The story is an opposites attract, modern day fairytale following a bookish, farm girl senior who falls for a cocky exchange student at a Wisconsin college, unaware that he is really the prince of Denmark.Luke Mably plays prince Edvard and I hated him in the beginning but genuinely came to like the character he became. There were some funny moments here, good secondary characters and I found that despite the fairy tale quality of the story it wasn't clichéd. The lawnmower race for example was fun and a unique aspect as "Eddie goes to stay with Paige's family on their farm. I also enjoyed Edvard's man servant, his addiction to video games.I did get quite wrapped up in the romance here and thought that the outcome was actually bittersweet involving sacrifice. 5/17/15

"The Prince and Me" is a 'fairy-tale' romantic comedy. I tend to like romantic comedies, but only if they allow me to fall for its charms.A primary ingredient in romantic comedies, is likable characters. I should be able to see myself in the girl, and like the guy the same way she does. This film fails. In fact, these might not be characters at all. I think they are just cardboard cut-outs of good looking actors.The plot has a Danish prince Edvard leaving his royal life to attend an American University in Wisconsin. Why Wisconsin, you ask? Because he saw a girls gone wild commercial set there. Enough said. Then he meets Paige, a pre-med student. Apparently, the dominant characteristics of a would-be doctor is to be pretty and make sarcastic comments. The current state of medical education is bad enough, why fill it with nonsense like this? And why demoralize the Denmark royalty? This is when films are supposed to choose fictional conditions.What follows the story is a set of cliché jokes about university life, rich snobs, and small-town farm life. None of which are funny or romantic. Pretty near impossible to make a romantic comedy out of that.

I saw this on cable the first time, so I didn't see it from the beginning, and I liked watching the movie, until my wife turned it off. Then, I saw it on again not from the beginning...and my wife turned it off again...Then, I saw it again from the actual beginning...and was shocked to see "Manitowoc, WI" which is where my family took many weekend trips. The good old days...I was actually going to see the movie from the beginning...and then my wife turned off the movie again. Anyway, I liked the movie...the parts I saw...I didn't care that it was unrealistic and cheesy (no pun intended)...I enjoyed it. My favorite line, not from the movie but from a guy that I once worked with, Dan Bell. We were on a job in Oklahoma, and He told me that every time someone would ask where he is from, and he said they would all respond the same way, "Wisconsin, huh...What do you do with all that cheese?" (then Dan said, like I Store it in my garage). Well, do ya? Wisconsin huh...What do you do with all that Cheese? And the college girls??? In the movie, what did the commercial say? That was funny. I wish my wife would let me see the whole movie...

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.