Love on the Danube: Royal Getaway

This movie was alright, with the Duke meeting a girl that didn't know his identity. Then in typical fashion, the drama is that a fake story - about their relationship - is released, she finds out and then the conflict is that he lied.

That's where the movie lost me. I mean, most women would be absolutely thrilled to find out the man they're attracted to is actually a Prince. At the very least, I'd think she'd want to be curious about why he's hiding his identity, but common sense says - if she has a brain at all - that she'd know why. Duh. But the movie falls into a typical unrealistic trap that I find most Hallmark movies fall into; where someone's dishonest, or there's some conflict of sorts and common sense is pretty much tossed out the window for everyone's lack of trust or inability to rationalize the truth.

I mean, this girl should have been calling friends and saying, OMG, you know who I met, but instead she's like, I can't trust you anymore.

She ought to think about things from his perspective. He has a reason for wanting to hide what might be the biggest secret in the history of secrets. Duh.

This movie could have been so much better if there was something more to the punchline than, I can't trust a Duke hiding his identity. Whatever. Get over it. Or better yet, maybe he ought to find a girl with a brain on her shoulders.

A "commoner" girl goes on a vacation cruise, trying to get away from work and recent break-up with her fiance. She meets a special guy, who shares her love for art. The end up together.

This film has good actors (which work together and make for a cute couple), decent film making and a proper execution!

SADLY, it is hurt by utterly formulaic structure. And it checks all the predictable checkpoints!! And I mean ALL of them.

He is a royal Duke in line for the throne(?) and keeping the secret (for some reason), charming high-points in their developing relationship throughout the trip, the borish low-point at the last third of the film, the "it wasn't real" line from the lead, the "you are special because you changed him", the helping hand from a third party to sway them back together, etc etc.. all concluding in a beautiful perfect happy ending.

It's okay and doesn't annoy. But the repetitiveness is tiring.

I'll give it a point higher than I would simulating this is the first movie I've ever seen.

I watched these out of order and watched this one first. It was my least favorite of the 3.

I've never been happy he on the secret royal but this wasn't terrible on that. And I like them both, I'm a fan of Jessica because of Chesapeake Shores and Dans from his days on The Bold Type. Weirdly even though he is from Montreal I thought the English accent here was less distracting than his French accent in the wine tasting movie.

The scenes on the ship make it seem so low class. The room and table for the captains table is awful, worse than a mid priced regular restaurant. I wasn't a fan of the costuming at all. So glad that beard went.

I was distracted by alot. There were holes. On a tiny cruise how did they both manage to book rooms. Their discussions of paintings was too much.

It just wasn't for me. But I still liked it because of the beautiful scenery and I like two good actors getting roles.

Working on this set of movies and so far this second one was much better than the first. A little more details to the story, and an actual storyline at that. The first one I don't even feel like had a story line. I love that there's more humor in this one as well. For those who love royalty stories, this one is cute enough with him having to be discrete. To me it's always fun when they get to live a normal life for a while. I enjoy the couple little repeat characters, Betty and Teddy. Betty isn't as exaggerative as she is in Good Witch, which is a good thing, and Teddy is fun to see without a European accent. She can do it all and she's beautiful. I hope she stars in one soon. As always, I love when there's more than just the one kiss at the end, makes it more of a believable love story.

Ava is not having the best moment of her life, her relationship ended a week before the wedding, so he boss suggests that she takes the river cruisr that was supposed to be her honeymoon trip to disconnect and unwind for a bit. There, she meets "Joe" aka Jozsef, a duke of a small European country, who doesn't tell her his real identity, of course. They bond immediately and they start spending time together, mostly talking and enjoying all things art.

It was an entertaining movie. I really love the European charm it has. Our leads had great chemistry and I think the relationship of the characters developed in a natural way, it wasn't rushed or forced.

And yes, the pre-ending problem is quite obvious from the beginning, but honestly I was more drawn to the chemistry of the leads and the beautiful cities shown. Also, is it really a royal Hallmark movie if you don't have an actor pretending an accent?

I will probably watch the rest of the series.