Metacritic reviews

Fans of the first "Princess Diaries" will find enough laughs and diamonds in the rough to sustain them on their way to this important moral.

Although all the key players are back - including, fans will be glad to hear, Heather Matarazzo as cynical sidekick Lilly Moscovitz - the freshness of the first is long gone.

Has just enough fairy dust to charm its target audience.

We all love a good fairy tale, but the enchantment is missing in this predictable sequel.

Like its predecessor, it's Hollywood hokum at its most glamorous and effective.

Benefits from extremely modest expectations. For it to be anything but painfully arbitrary would count as an accomplishment, so the fact that it's superficially entertaining qualifies as a minor triumph.

Mr. Marshall, is not much of a film director. Depending on the budget, his movies look either cheap (like this one) or studio slick ("Pretty Woman"), and tend to have the same flat, presentational visual style that's familiar from most sitcoms.

Good-natured but overstuffed sequel.

Anne Hathaway's charms barely rescue this exercise in lame comedy and romance.

So unfocused is Shonda Rhimes's screenplay and so flabby is Marshall's direction.