"I can't believe they made a sequel to that."

I have pretty low standards for movies. I don't expect much out of a movie. But this is horrible. There is exactly one other movie which has been this horrible, and that would be Serving Sara. I mean, okay, granted, when I saw that the made a sequel to "The Prince and Me" my immediate reaction was "You've got to be kidding me."

But I had bought the first one a month or so ago in the $5 bin at Walmart and had been surprised to discover that it was actually pretty good as far as its genre goes, and in fact a little more appealing than most of the teeny bopper romances because the main characters were graduating college and thus were a little more relatable. In fact I've watched it a lot of times in the past month - enough to make me wish I'd sprung for the extra $4 and bought the DVD. (I figured it was going to be not that great, and so was just buying it for the cost of renting it.) So in my attempt to make a quick decision and get home, I said what the heck, it's short and I don't have much time, and rented it.

Wow, was that a disappointment!!! And I mean, I wasn't expecting much - and it still disappointed! Sooooooooooo bad!!!!!! It wasn't even the same chick - Julia Stiles played the lead in the original, and she and Luke Malby actually had chemistry. They got the same guy but literally every other returning character was played by a different actor / actress. I didn't notice right away because they did a really good job on the DVD cover of making it look like Julia Stiles to someone who wasn't really looking particularly closely. I'm sure Stiles took one look at the script though and tossed it - sooooo bad!!! Horrible!!!! Not only cliche lines but utterly cliche, never done well even by expert gags, silly plot holes even for this genre, utterly unconvincing performances - oh sooo bad!!!

*sigh* So my evening was rather a waste. I went to the mall to see if I could find a winter coat on sale, but didn't find one to my satisfaction. My current coat has gotten really dingy and I thought perhaps I could pick one up cheap since it was the end of the season. So then I went to Wegman's for a big grocery trip - still not having had dinner, which perhaps explains why when I finally got to the video store at 9pm I didn't make the best decision. ;-)

About 1/2 an hour in I turned the movie off and put on my shoes to take it back to the video store and ask if they'd let me trade it in for Snow White Tale of Terror (an indy movie I caught one late Friday night last year and liked). But it was late and I figured they would tell me no, since it had been about an hour and a half since I rented the movie. So I just watched it, fastforwarding through some of the more obviously painful parts.

*GROAN* Never, ever, ever will I rent a straight - to - video sequel again . . .