Add to the swelling number of movie fantasies involving European royalty or presidential first daughters a movie called "The Prince & Me," an unremarkable romantic comedy that gives short shrift to both romance and comedy. What is remarkable here is that a it took four writers to map out such an innocuous, derivative tale, and b not one came up with a new wrinkle on the tired situation. Paramount needs to ride the popularity of young actress Julia Stiles hard even to see average boxoffice returns on this lame fantasy manufactured for adolescent and teenage females.

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