Princess: A Modern Fairytale

Once you've seen a story about a princess, you've seen just about them all. Or have you? The movie "Princess: A Modern Fairytale" is all about the cliches, just not in all the ways expected. Modern twists such as starting off the dialogue with "We hold these truths to be self evident" almost makes you want to double check what movie you clicked to watch but the opening scene of the castle's exterior with all it's beauty and features reminds you that you are in fact watching a princess movie. "Princess" which is an ABC Family movie, brings the cliche story about a princess who ends up falling in love to a whole new level. This princess, Princess Ithaca, is a healer. No sob story about her parents, no wicked witches, but plenty of mermaids, pixies, unicorns and bigfoot. Princess Ithaca holds a ball every year to raise money for the endangered species, as far as details go, they're kept secret just like what's kept inside the castle. William is not a prince, he is not financially stable, he is although the cliche of charming and attractive. He wins a date with the princess by placing the highest bid, all the money he has, but she mistakes him for "the searcher" because of the pickup line he attempted to say to her. The main plot of the story is not all like the others in search of love, it is a quest to find the next healer princess, whom Ithaca has seen in her dreams and whom "the searcher" is to find before the week is over or "bad things will happen." Of course it has to include the basics such as the care giver of the princess, dragons and beasts, and the time when the princess is in distress. Distress like being faced with a 3 headed dragon not just the casual "pea under a mattress", another cliche line used within the movie itself. Princess Ithaca falls and becomes unconscious shortly after finding the next in line, Calliope. William takes Ithaca and Calliope back to the castle just as time is running out to save the creatures and transfer the powers. Hold on, the most important cliche at all has not been omitted though. You know the one about the princess and true love's first kiss? Yeah, that one. Well with all the twists and turns this movie gives to the typical story about a princess, it's a chance you just might have to take and watch it yourself. The movie finishes with the same lines it started with, still with the twisted ending to the quote, "and at some point in her life, every girl has wanted to be a princess" which will cue you back into your own fairytale dreams as the movie gives you the storybook "The End."