Friday, January 7, 2022

The Princess switch 3: Romancing the star

"The Princess switch 3: Romancing the star"

Watched English movie The Princess switch: Switched again.
This film is directed by Michael Rohl. Written by Robin Bernheim Burger. Produced by Vanessa Hudgen, Brad Krevoy. Music by Jina An, Terry Frewer, Shirley Song. Cinematography Fernando Argüelles. The film stars Vanessa Hudgens, Sam Palladio, Nick Sagar, Remi Hii, Will Kemp, Amanda Donohoe. The film runs for about 1 hour 45 minutes and was released in Nov 2021. I watched it on Netflix on 5th Dec 2021 with Aditi.

Stacy and Margaret are co-chairing Christmas festival in Montenaro. Vatican has loaned them Star of peace, a priceless relic, to place on top of ceremonial Christmas tree. The relic is stolen. Margaret and Stacy devise a plan to enlist help of Fiona who in turn enlists help of Peter, her childhood friend. (Note: Margaret, Stacy and Fiona look alike, a triple role)

An elaborate plan is hatched to steal back what is stolen. Margaret, Stacy and Fiona join forces. A new character of Peter, a hacker cum security consultant, is introduced. 

There are three protagonist ladies. However, this movie is a Fiona show. Director and audience fall in love with the exaggerated, loud, vampish character of Fiona and her vulnerable side. Vanessa deserves special credit for portraying the roles distinctly and the double change exceptionally well. It's one thing to display two personality traits, it's another to display three and it's entirely different to show one personality trying to impersonate another and the conflicts and differences. If it's done twice over, its a treat. 

Vanessa is too good. Others don't really count. Direction is decent. Audience is better off not asking some obvious questioned and enjoy the movie. 

Watch it for Vanessa. 

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