'A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby' Review: A pure royal delight from Netflix you DO NOT want to miss this Holiday Season
'A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby' recently dropped on Netflix and it succeeds in hitting all the right spots. Each year, with newer installments coming in, we can see that the film is only getting more progressive in terms of its representation of characters and themes.
The third installment of 'A Christmas Prince' series is centered around the life of Queen Amber (Rose McIver) and King Richard (Ben Lamb) of Aldovia as they are expecting a baby. Be assured that this movie will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end!
The basic premise of the film is apparent from its title and you more or less know what to expect from this film. With the festival season just around the corner, the royal couple is expecting their first child together and that too on their first wedding anniversary on Christmas.
Coincidentally, at the same time, the centennial renewal of a 600-year-old peace treaty with neighboring ally Penglia is also set to happen.
However, on the arrival of the Penglian royals - King Tai (Kevin Shen) and Queen Ming (Momo Yeung), the traditional artefact, goes missing. It has to be an inside job because nobody else knows about this treaty! To make things worse, legend has it that Queen Amber and Richard's firstborn child will be cursed by a sorceress if the treaty isn't signed by both the kingdoms (Aldovia and Penglia) by Christmas eve.
Spoiler Alert: The culprit is not who you think it is!
Queen Amber is represented as the progressive member of the Aldovian royal family as she has the liberty to work and be equivalent to King Richard to help in the development of the kingdom. After all, she used to be a journalist from New York back in the days. She writes blogs and shares it with the world to read and know about her life. Which is unlike the traditional ways of royal life.
She is the epitome of feminism and empowerment as she is vocal about how women too should be given credit for their work and contribution to the kingdom. She helped Queen Ming break her traditionalist self and look beyond the conformist ways of embracing womanhood.
But the biggest irony in the film is that despite being a modern-day woman, she finds it difficult to debunk the royal myth of delivering a cursed baby!
Anyhow, it is amazing to see how she vouches for the queens to be a part of the treaty and sign it along with the kings, typically breaking boundaries and not conforming to royal traditional ways.
Not just that, she also motivates Queen Ming to stand up for herself against her traditionalist husband. Although he knows that Queen Ming has been doing so much for the welfare of their kingdom back in Penglia, she never got the credit she deserves.
Somewhere along this plotline, we can draw a tangent between the lives of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle!
The film also gives us a major throwback to cult classics like 'The Princess Diaries' and 'The Princess Switch' as it follows a similar storyline. You can also look forward to a 'Cinderella' moment to top it off, giving a warm and fuzzy experience to this movie.
In totality, this movie is very inclusive in terms of its multicultural cast and it was truly a spectacle to watch on screen as the whole movie was perfectly balanced. They maintained themselves just like the way real royal families would do.
If you're a sucker for Christmas romantic films and royalty, this movie should be number one on your list.
'A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby' is currently streaming on Netflix.