Even though it has some heart, the Princess Switch: Switched Again doesn’t hold up to the original.

Story

Taking place two years after the events of the first movie, Stacy who is married to the prince of Belgravia and Margaret who is due to be crowned princess of Montenaro, once again switch places as Margret is trying to fix her relationship with Stacy’s best friend Kevin. Unbeknownst to them, Margret’s cousin Fiona (who looks like them) is plotting to steal the crown.

The story is wack, and I knew this going in which makes it wack in the best possible way.

Is it realistic? Of course not, but you’re not watching this movie for realism. That being said, there are a few more cartoonish elements in this movie that were absent in the previous one, making an already unrealistic premise even more ridiculous.

Acting

While this performance is not a tour-de-force, Vanessa Hudgens has to play 3 characters in this movie, all substantially different from each other. And for that, I have to give credit where it is due. My favourite of all 3 is Stacy who is the most “normal” given the confines of the movies (I mean how normal can a baker who married a prince after switching places with her husband ex-fiancee who happens to look just like her be anyway.)