Is holiday season of 2025 safe space to rant about the Princess Switch movies?
Part 1: [These movies got way too covoluted] of probably very long rant.
These movies (the firts and the second one) were like the three month hyperfixation of my (at the the time) undiagnosed autistic face in like Christmas 2021 when I fouind out there was a second one. It was covid, I was junior in high school, life was miserable, but I had these movies so life had purpose.
Honeslty, the first one is pretty perfect in my opinion. Simple plot, it makes zero sense, and you aren't supposed to take it too seriously (even though I am about to do excatly that). Edvard and Stacy are actually my fave ship from these movies, and I love me a stuffy prince who learns to "let go" and enjoy life a little. I do like Kevin too, and Margaret as well, even though she's probably my leats fave.
Also, Kevin and Margaret as a couple feel less believaple to me thant Stacy (even as Margaret) and Edvard. Edvard and Margaret didn't know each other at all, so when he got to know Stacy as Margaret, he got to know the real Stacy and fell in love with her (even if the engagment was hurried yes, but they waited a year. It's not like they got married right away).
Meanwhile Kevin thought Margaret was Stacy, a woman he had known for 12 years (I think they said it was 12, I did not rewatch these for this). Yes, he was falling for her new spontaneus poersnality, but it came with all the memories and moments and years of friendship he had already shared with the real Stacy. I also was never fully comnvinved that he did not have a crush on her at the start of the movie. Kevin didn't fall in love with Margaret, but with Stacy with more flavored personality.
So I do not wonder at all why the relationship broke appart.
Anyways, the second movie. It's good. It's fine. I am glad they explained why Margaret was becoming queen, since she was not the heir to throne in the last movie (even though they could have maybe mentioned that she was the second in line with the heir apparent having no children) intead of pretending that she had always been the heir apparent or something.
Honetly though experiment would be that what if Stacy never showed up and Margaret married Edvard and then the second movie's plot happened. Honeslty, they would have needed to get a divorce probably.
Otherwise the plot was fine. If they wanted to get Kevin and Margaret back together so be it. The kitnapping plot was fine. I loved that Edvard got to throw a punch, but why did they not tell him? They should have!! He could have helped!! This all would have been avoided!
Also, why was it nessecary for Margaret to dress up as Stacy? Stacy dresses up as her to inpersonate her, but Margaret doesn't need to look like Stacy to go on a date with Kevin. She could have just worn normal clothes, it didn't need to be Stacy's clothes. Honeslty that was a disaster waiting to happen in a different kind of movie if a paprazzi would have seen them. And it makes things quite weird as Margater married Keving while looking like Stacy (see above why I don't like this).
I don't care for Fiona. I am in gerela not in favor of always intrudcing new major players in sequels. I don't think it's always nessecary. We don't need three Vanessa Hudgenses (I do hope she was paid well for pulling triple duty). We can believe in two genetic anomalia's, but athried, who's also a close relative of Margaret's, it gets too convoluted. We can keep the kitnapping, but have it just be some normal cousin who just wants the throne. The stwiching is already happening with Stacy and Margaret (we come back to this later on why we nessecarily wouldn't even need a switch). The vilain could claim (maybe a forged letter) that Margaret had abdoned the country and was also abticating the throne.
It saves us from watching Fiona's convoluted identity fraud plot with the coronation and everything. You can't usurbt the throne like that, it not how it works. Obviously this came out before everything went down in the UK (and also in Denmark), so we didn't have a recent example, but change of reigns is a leagal and political thing. The religious ceremony is a formality. It doesn't make you the head of state, just affirms it in the way. Fiona would have never become queen.
Or is Montenaro and absolute monarchy? They can't be as they have a goverment and a prime minister?
Also, so Montenaro has an interregnum? They has to have one right, since Margaret didn't become the queen in the istance her cousin abticated. How long is it? 6 months? They specified this in Christmas Prince, why not here?
So my gripes start with the second movie. The first one was fun with a pretty simple consept that you don't need to take seriously or think too hard about. The whole consept is probably most known from Barbie Princess and The Pauper. The seocnd movie doesn't really ive us that luxury of just trying to not take it seriously as it starts trying to do too much and really loses it's focus.
Then there is third movie. I lost the taste for this francice at this point, because the whole movie lost the plot. We don't need to redeem the villain, or focus solely on the third Vanessa. Themovie digarded almost half of it's original main cast. Kevin was gone, Edvard and Stacy had a very convoluded plot thyat was half assed in there for them to have something to do, and the switching was everyone dressing up as Fiona.
It felt more of a spin off of Fiona that continuing the story of Margaret and Stacy, or even just Stacy as she was arguably the main charcter in firts movie. She barely did anything in the last one. The confusion over who was the actual main charcter left especially the last movie really unfocused and not staying chesive with the first two.
Okay, that's enough fpr this rant. If anyone read this this far.
I'll continue later...If someone read this far. There will be other parts, because I love to over think things I love. The topics will include my kind of a prblme with Margaret as a character (especially betwwen the movies 1 and 2) and then alternative idea for tge 3rd movie that would have actually worked with the other two movies
