Prince Charming (2001)

Pretty Good

Highly Overrated But Still Good

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

I generally enjoy Hallmark Entertainment movies. The Snow Queen, The Secret Garden, and Snow White were well-made fairy-tale movies. Although Prince Charming does try to make a modern love story from the Frog Prince story, it fails in its execution. It needed more story. The movie did not explain why they survived as frogs for so long without aging or dying. And having watched LOTR, the names of the kingdoms sounded totally middle-earth, I got lost in its generic names. The worst part of the movie is the ending. The ending made no sense! Major plot hole that I fell through. The ending was too sickly sweet for me.I would have given this movie a 1, but because the actor that portrayed the Prince was very nice to look at, I gave it a 2. Christina Applegate did a mediocre job as the lead lady in the story. Usually I love Bernadette Peters and her adept quality at portraying evil women, but it felt like the film makers didn't want to make her too evil character. *sigh* I just wish the story was a little more fleshed out before they made it a movie, even a made for TV movie.

I have to admit, I had pretty low expectations when I sat down to watch this. Surprisingly enough, I was still disappointed. I honestly have a hard time believing how bad it was. Every single character was a cliche. The plot was ridiculous, lame and held no surprises whatsoever. I had figured out the end within a few minutes of the movie. The CGI is barely passable, for a made-for-TV movie. The 'comedy' is unbelievably bad, I didn't even smile once, for the entire duration of the film. The worst thing about it is the fact that it's a fairy tale as well as a romantic comedy. I got nausea from the pure sweetness of it. Disgusting. I can honestly say that the only thing in the whole movie that wasn't directly offending with how bad it was, was Cristina Applegate's acting. That was actually OK, but nowhere near good enough to save this putrid waste of film. I urge anyone, apart from senseless females who can't bare the thought of missing a romantic comedy, do not waste any time at all on this movie. It may very well be the worst film I've ever seen. Definitely the worst romantic comedy. 1/10

We've seen this plot a thousand times, but this take on it is sweet and very entertaining. I was particularly surprised at how well the frogs were computer-generated. They move like people and are fun to watch. The acting is great and the movie moves along at a nice pace. Watch this on a rainy Saturday afternoon with some ice cream. I rented it at a small local video store that doesn't have many movies, so it's probably available, although they did only have one copy.

You pretty much know what the story will be like based on the title and you pretty much know the budget by the actors and actresses, but....This movie works! It keeps you interested all the way through, mainly, I guess, because of its fish-out-of-water (or should I say frog-out-of-water?) charm.