After all the doom and gloom last week, how about a bright sunny movie for once?Mia (Anne Hathaway) is used to being unnoticed, whether its in the shadow of her fiery best friend Lily (Heather Matarazzo) or the cold shoulder of the popular kids, led by Lana (Mandy Moore). But all that changes when Mia's grandmother, Clarisse (Julie Andrews), comes to town and reveals that Mia is the heir apparent to the throne of Genovia, a micro nation between France and Spain. Mia must choose between a life of glamour but obligation and her comfortable but non-entity existence.
The clothes and the hair keep this pretty dated but it's not terrible. I could see young girls still enjoying it. Parents maybe not so much unless you also grew up with it. I didn't. I was far out of the targeted age range when this came out and it never made much of an impression on me. My boyfriend remembers that his sister was obsessed with it so he watched it a lot as a kid. It's currently streaming on Disney+.
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