I really loved this movie. I liked that she basically has all the royal staff how like her. Also I love that his family ends up letting them get married at some point in time. And this is a great Royal romance movie that all families should sit down and watch together.

The whole royal meets commoner and falling in love scenario was already very old and done to death by the time 'Royally Ever After' was made. It is a scenario that Hallmark over the past seven years or so have recycled quite a lot and very few films that have this concept do anything fresh. Seeing it near universally panned also lessened my already admittedly quite low expectations. Some of the royal Hallmark films have actually been pretty good, so there was a glimmer of hope.

Which was quite early on dashed in a film that started off quite badly and got worse until reaching terrible degrees the sillier and more irritating things got. There was no intent on hating 'Royally Ever After', some films seen with low expectations have been surprisingly good and Hallmark have done good films regardless of any predictability. 'Royally Ever After' is one of the very bad things, with almost nothing working and the worst aspects being dreadful.

'Royally Ever After's' best aspect is some of the production values, which are very nice to look at. Especially the scenery, which Hallmark more often than not delivered on even in the duds. The castle is a source of wonder.

Unfortunately that is pretty much it. What immediately stands out in a bad way is how truly unlikeable the female lead character is, she is very irritating and as others have said for somebody who is meant to be smart as the film says so she does and says things that are insultingly stupid. In fact, none of the characters are interesting or worth rooting for, with the prince being bland and all the supporting characters with no exceptions being caricatures and pretty much recycled stereotypes seen in other royal Hallmark films.

No better news about the acting, which comprises of a stiff and personality free Torrance Coombs who has nothing to work with pretty much, grotesque mix of hamming up and phoning in from all the supporting players and worst of all the even more outrageous overacting of Fiona Gubelmann (who has been good elsewhere),who overdoes all her character's flaws and too much of a naive simpering high school student. She and Coombs have absolutely no chemistry together in another relationship that is underdeveloped. With it being rushed and like there were parts intended to be there but left on the editing room floor. Some of the editing is choppy and like a rush job.

Music is too constant and over-scored, not uncommon for Hallmark but this is one of the worst Hallmark films in this regard for this year. The direction is characterless and leaden. The script is full of cheese, over sweet schmaltz and is painfully awkward, a lot of the dialogue induces cringing. The story is thin, excessively silly, with too much cobbled together and does absolutely nothing new with a continually recycled formula. Which makes the film feel very fatigued and it is not good fun watching a film knowing throughout how it's all going to map out five minutes before the event happens. The ending is too neat and feels unearned.

Concluding, very bad. 2/10.

I like the main characters, for the most part. But the female lead (the pretty teacher) has got to be the stupidest "smart" person on the planet. Common sense says you don't admit to picking royal flowers while you're sitting at the dinner table with King, Queen, and other royal guests. Or talk about the gardener, or the cook. Anyone with half a brain should know that. So yeah, the writers make her out to be an idiot; in fact, she seems to have a knack for saying the exact wrong thing. I guess it's supposed to come off as her being "down-to-earth" or charming, or something, but .... sorry, it doesn't work out that way. Quite the opposite: it's an epic fail.