That was an excellent one.

Dreadfully Boring

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

If you want a movie with no surprises, twists, unique plots, characters or any kind of deviation from a very strict formula... then you'll probably like this movie. I don't mean that in an insulting fashion. This movie is the food equivalent of cotton candy. Sweet but without any substance.It's a standard boy meets girl but girl is hiding something plot (Never Been Kissed, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days), with the the male love interest being a Prince.Before going in I could have written all the plot beats on a paper and gotten them largely on the nose. The difference is she isn't just keeping a secret from him she's stalking him. She's a reporter trying to get a scoop on the Prince who has an unearned 'Playboy' title (with no real reason given).The reporter goes undercover as the tutor for the Prince's younger sister and within minutes of her arrival and introduction she's destroyed a million dollar Ming vase. For reasons I can't fathom she's allowed to stay around (days later she ruins a painting that looks to be several hundred years old).As the movie progresses, with time being difficult to track, the Prince is shown to be Absolutely Perfect. The lead actress is proven to be an unethical piece of trash but played by a very charming actress! She ends up coming across documents that prove the Prince is adopted, and thus not eligible for the crown. She agonizes over reporting this and actually does tell 2 friends back at her magazine. I'm sorry but she's lost all moral ground at this point and is now A Bad Person. Spying on and stalking the Prince are already Bad Things, but to steal documents that she found by chance and then even for a second considering releasing them?Honestly when everything played out (the reveal, the evil cousin because there is always one of those, trying to take the crown) and she saves the day because for some reason the previous king can make up new laws without anyone ever finding out about them. She goes home all sad like.Then of course the 100% expected thing happens. The Prince, now King, shows up in New York and proposes to her. Because of course he does.The movie genuinely feels as if minimal effort went into making it. It was very paint by numbers. Nothing unique or interesting happens that deviates from what one would expect.So if you're looking for some Christmas movie pap, go see it!Amber should have been thrown in jail though.

I have seen other Netflix productions of high quality, this is not one of them. What happened here I do not know, after watching the movie I am left with the impression that this was made in a hurry.The base story line is actually ok and had potential, this is a light feel good romantic Christmas story, so the basic story is exactly what we who love this type of movies are looking for. Unfortunately, the film is ruined by bad acting, over caricatured characters, bad writing and poor dialog, also bad/cheap quality in the production. For example, seeing pictures of the newspapers web sites, they don't even look like real web pages, and that should not be a hard thing to make.I think children probably will like this, with the over simplification and over characterizing that often helps children understanding the story, for us adults it is painful to watch. The look of the castle in Christmas lights is stunning and beautiful. The casting of actors Ben Lamb as the Prince and Alice Krige as the Queen is a good match, but they can only do so much with the lines they have been given.Summary: If only Netflix had spent some more time in developing the dialog and story and looked for better actors this could have been great.

I watched this movie with my family this Christmas and we all regret it. It was a very simple movie: You can literally predict everything that happens after only watching 10 minutes. If you are above the age of 10 I would not recommend watching this movie.I thought it was very unrealistic how they handled all their problems and some things were just too easily ignored, while we were all sitting here like "What are they doing? Why is nobody noticing/commenting on this?" Another thing that really bothered me (although I know that it sounds superficial) was the height difference between Amber/Martha and prince Richard. She literally looked like his little sister. It really could have been better casted if you'd ask me. I decided to give this a 5/10, because I can understand little kids might enjoy this movie. So if this movie is meant for children (which I assume it is), it's entertaining and doesn't deserve a horrible grade, although it's still not a high quality movie.5/10. -Imme van Gorp

Why are most popular movies now also showing up under the top rated TV shows? Is this a movie or a series? Thank you!