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All I can say is that I wish the people behind this film had just taken a bit more time to put this together - I would have not minded waiting another couple of months if the film would be historically accurate, have good dialogue, and not feel rushed, with many things feeling looked over.

So you can probably understand from above that I'm not very pleased with the film.

One of my main concerns is that the time frame in the film jumps dramatically between scenes, leaving me confused as to what was happening. Particular important days were played out very slowly, and then suddenly the film jumped to nearly a year, and by the end of the movie I thought I had been cheated of some very important moments in the relationship that could just not have either fitted in the time frame the director had to create the movie, or was left out in the screenplay.

There are some good heated scenes, particularly between Charles and William, that have good dialogue, but most of the dialogue is either cheesy and very formal for what I would imagine the "People's Prince" to use, or very informal and not at all what William would say (particually scenes involving his friends). Of course, I have not talked to William in person, so I have no idea how he is in real life, I am only presuming upon how he appears on TV.

Kate comes off as a very self-determined woman (that's my way of putting it nicely). Really, I thought she was a bit of a b****, even though she is determined to see William as a man and not see him as everyone else does, as the future King of England. This is certainly not how she appears to come across in real life and as we have seen her over the years.

Also, the thing that really annoyed me is that pictures of them in newspapers and magazines, and even the newspapers themselves look incredibly fake. Also, backgrounds in the car and when William proposes in Kenya are pretty bad. It makes this film feel very unbelievable.

The actors do a great job but their performance is heavily compromised by the screenplay and direction. I do understand that the film is American based - so yes, the accents could do with some improving.

A good try. I would really, really like someone to pick up this fantastic idea and do a proper, deserving job, with no cliché romance. Definitely agree with the straight-to-DVD and TV decision made.

CONCLUSION: One to watch for Royal fans (like me), its a very romantic and quick look that scratches the surface at how William and Kate met, and the ending scene is very sweet. If you can bear the probable inaccuracies and rushed dialogue/time, then this is for you.

Kate Middleton and William Wales (Duke of Cambridge) were both students at St. Andrews. They were enrolled in art classes and worked on class projects together. William eventually changed his major to geology. Kate changed hers to gold-digging.

The filmmakers made it clear that Kate Middleton of Bucklebury, a commoner, had her sights set on William from the outset. In numerous scenes, Kate is seen kissing her boyfriend Trevor in front of William. It is obvious that she is not doing the slurpy kissing to demonstrate that she is in a committed relationship. Rather, the ostentatious displays are to incite the ardor of young "Wills."

Kate breaks up with Trevor with the explanation that she is unwilling to transfer to Oxford University to study art there while he pursues his degree. Of course, she would rather remain at St. Andrews where she can perfect the art of gold-digging. With the break-up, Kate does not spend a lengthy period of bereavement for Trevor.

Kate and Wills eventually become part of group of students sharing a flat. Kate brings Wills home to meet her family, including the two doting parents, sister Pippa, and brother James. Wills is given the guest room. It is important to keep up appearances. No shenanigans in the Middleton household.

When Kate and Wills go public with their relationship, Kate gets a sampling of life under the pressure-packed scrutiny of the paparazzi. A helpful servant at Windsor gives Kate instructions on how to curtsy, how to walk three paces behind Wills, and how to exit a motor vehicle discretely.

When Wills undertakes his military training at Sandhurst, his relationship with Kate becomes strained. Wills goes to London to "blow off steam," yet fails to contact Kate. The tabloids coin the expression "Waitie Katie" for the forlorn Kate. Eventually, Wills comes to his senses when he reads about Katie doing some partying, dancing with other men, working at Jigsaw clothing, and behaving like an independent woman.

By this point, Wills no longer feels that he needs his "space" and finally proposes to Kate. The close of the film includes edited scenes from the "fairy tale" wedding with footage of the real Wills and Kate.

The filmmakers did such a good job with the casting that the characters were entirely credible. At the same time, the actors seemed to be more interesting, more dynamic, and even more life-like than their cookie-cutter real counterparts. Would Wills really give his father a lecture on not "protecting" his mother, Princess Diana? Clearly, the goal was to present a beautiful love story of the Prince and the Commoner. Perhaps their relationship was a beautiful bonding of soul-mates. But the final effect seemed closer to the Golddigger and her object of prey.

Well, it was always going to be anodyne, wasn't it? What gets me is the pointlessness of this as a movie.

Arriving on UK TV less than a week before the nuptials of the couple it purports to portray, this glossy TV movie is extreme soap.

Filled with people who slightly resemble other people when seen from a certain angle, this effort has a script which is not so much feeble as the sort of thing one used to see in comics which adapted real-life stories.

The problem here is that the real-life events portrayed are so recent that they haven't stopped happening yet. Drawn, as it must be, from matters of public record as filtered through a strong dose of imagination, this is a bit like listening to someone narrating your life to you 5 minutes after it has happened, and making it sound like a fairytale as they do so.

I suppose if it's what you're looking for, it gives you what you're looking for. But it is essentially a very glossy soap.

When I sat down to watch this I was expecting something truly execrable that would just irritate me, whilst at very best providing occasional cheap chuckles. Instead I found myself weeping with laughter from start to finish, and admittedly a couple of bottles of champers down the line, watched it again a few hours later.

If you are looking for an accurate film about William and Kate, you'll be sorely disappointed (unless you're very dim, in which case I suppose you might take it all as fact). Similarly if you want an intelligently-crafted romantic story, you'd find more of that watching Universal Soldier. However if you want to enjoy one of the daftest, most mystifyingly slap-dash, and yet somehow rather sweet and engaging films, this is just the ticket.

The acting veers towards the embarrassing (Kate, she of the fluctuating accent) and on to the eye-gougingly awful (Margaret, her bitchy rival for Will's affections), but most of the cast are probably more at the mercy of the script than their own lack of talent. Will is almost certainly nothing like the Prince in real life, but is a lovable if rather thick hero. Prince Charles is played quite capably, and special mention must go to some American chap called Richard Reid, who plays Derek, a fictitious Old Etonian pal of Will's, quite superbly - so perfect a depiction of a nonchalant, public-school layabout, that I actually thought I might know him! My only real complaint is Prince Harry, whose real-life personality should have been a gift to this film, but instead gets only 2 minutes on-screen, probably because the actor looks like a sickly little weed, and can barely mumble out his lines in some vile American drawl.

So there is just enough conventional merit that you can watch 10 minutes without wanting to put your foot through the telly and send Clarence House the bill. Now comes the fun part...

The catalogue of shockingly observed scenes and lines in this film has to be seen to be believed, but as I said before, they don't make you wince or feel frustrated, they're just bloody funny. From the shots of Oxford as a news-reader announces Will's decision to attend St Andrews to cringe-making, laddy student dialogue, from the unusually pathetic-looking shoot at Highgrove to the scenes as our favourite twosome finally get it on, it is an absolute hoot. A few silly giggles would not be enough, but there is this air of absolute daftness pervading every scene, which glues it all together. The characters are somehow likable despite the awfulness, even when it is Kate spouting drivel about the environment, or Charles, with Gandalf-like gravitas, proclaiming "So it begins!" while the couple first snog in front of the press. The plot just about holds together (you'd hope it would, being based on a true story), and yet there are moments of quite dumb-founding nonsense: Kate and her mother bemoaning the intrusion of the paparazzi while simultaneously discussing Kate and Will's relationship in front of said journalists; as for the will-they-won't-they bit near the end, words fail me. However, these are not complaints - this is comic gold, and if you're of a silly disposition as I am, you will be on the floor in hysterics for every idiotic, cliché-ridden minute of it. More than that, you will find yourself cheering them on at the end, even if you feel slightly sullied by the whole thing.

What I just cannot determine is what was and wasn't intended. I assume that it is just a beautiful accident that it is such a perfect blend of amusingly dire and yet quite sweet, but at times I almost wonder whether the bad bits are so bad that they were intended, the brilliant product of an in-joke between the writers and directors. This view would be hard to substantiate, but for my brother's observation that someone had bothered to make a sign for a nightclub in the film, reading "Boulanji" - an elision of Chelsea hot-spots Boujis and the erstwhile Mamilanji - perhaps a singular flash of wit, or perhaps the one clue that the rest is all one big joke as well.

Whatever the case, you'll have a lot of fun finding out for yourselves.

Good God, why on earth did I bother writing that.

I really can not believe that the makers of this "film" believed that it was good and could do well! This is the direct opposite of flawless (not the dance troop) because I really can't think of a thing that redeemed it, apart from it being so cringingly awful it became sort of entertaining :S, but not so entertaining that it deserved any more than 1 star because I would never, ever ever ever etc. Watch this again! Let's begin (I don't know where to begin!) with the horrendous acting. The person who played Kate looked a little bit like her, but she couldn't act for a toffee apple and the makers even decided to give her a weird American accent. Why? When she spoke some words it was suddenly a strong English accent but on the next it became strong American! It sounded like she was bloody south African! But lets not just dwell on the poor girl because she was not the only one who couldn't act. It was only the rest of the cast that couldn't act either (even the bloody extras). William didn't look like William, couldn't act but at least he didn't have a yanky accent. Basically my point is. NO ONE COULD ACT FOR A SNIBSTON PENCIL! The directing was atrocious as well, with half the heads being missed in some shots, it even wobbled sometimes when it looked like it wanted to be a static shot! It looked rushed and why was this? Because it was rushed. This was more reminiscent of a soap than a romcom (AND IT'S NOT EVEN MEANT TO BE AN ARSEING ROMCOM!!) Which brings me onto my next huge problem. The screenplay. Whoever wrote this should have their hands sliced off so they can never write again! (of course I'm exaggerating, you can keep your hands just try and write a little better next time). You have to see it to believe it. "I thought we were studying", "I'm studying you". CRINGE!! Some scenes made me feel incredibly uncomfortable because of either the acting or the writing (I couldn't tell) even a chick flick wouldn't be this bad.

So basically they've turned a "royal love story" into a teen angst movie, with more clichés than I cared to count, with Kate and William constantly falling out over minor things but making up over a sing song, aww. Really unrealistic moments with Prince Big Ears inviting William's friends for tea and eating with him! Oh and let's not forget Kate swimming over to William and getting out all dripping wet and snogging his face off. That could really happen couldn't it?

But if you fancy a laugh you're in the right place, let's face it I only watched it to see how bad it was going to be.

The movie was amazing....you were ranting!! Get a f###### life, for real.... 😜

Granted, none of the acting nor any of the production values were worth writing home about, I think there are and have been far worse romance films. My big quarrel with this one is its opportunism. William and Kate are real-and-now people, and decent ones as far as I can tell, who deserve a degree of privacy that a film like violates most cynically. True, most of the script is based on conjecture (and cliché) and probably doesn't reflect much at all of what was really going on. But to desecrate the occasion of their wedding this way, whatever the film makers may or may not have got right, is simply obscene.

At the same time, I thought the major characters (except for poor Prince Charles) were treated sympathetically. One sequence that had me rolling my eyes and kind of grinning sympathetically at the same time, was the scene in which she dove from her boat, the crew girls cheered, etc. It probably didn't happen that way, but it should have.

Yes, the dialogue as a previous reviewer stated is absolutely inane.

Our couple come across as habitual drinkers. How the academic years pass quickly. Prince Harry, in his one scene, comes off like Peck's Bad Boy.

The film tells the on again-off again romance between Prince William and Kate Middleton. They really seem to both be quite immature. Do they love to party? You better believe it.

The guy who plays William reminded me of Hugh Grant. What similar facial expressions they have.

Ben Cross, of "Chariots of Fire" fame comes across weak as Prince Charles. Only the scene before the end of this terrible film comes across as effective. That's where Charles tells William of his love for Diana and why he didn't wed Camilla Parker-Bowles sooner.

I can see why no one played Camilla or Queen Liz in this film. They must have totally looked down on this entire mess.

The potty Prince of Wales (played by Ben Cross) was suitably dithery but far too hirsute and handsome; a tall man - yet dwarfed by an eight-foot tall William. I really hope that Ben was well-paid, because it must have been quite humiliating to exchange lines with nothing more than a series of made-over shop mannequins. Indeed, 'William's' barely discernible talent was not really helped by the fact that the Prince's nose was being played by a very un-Spencer/Windsor schnozzle. The only physical similarity between 'Kate' and our new Duchess of Cambridge was the fact that they both have long dark hair. Actually,it might have been a better plan to choose someone able to act and have her fitted with a good wig. On the subject of hair,'Harry's' red mop sat atop the owner of a mouth utterly incapable of sustaining a British accent. Mercifully, the royal bad boy only put in a brief appearance - but again - a good wig attached to another actor's dome might have raised the tone somewhat. However, if you treat this film like any other made-for-TV romance it is an inoffensive(even fun) way to pass the time. In fact,it was really easy to forget that the couple were supposed to be portraying 'real-life' people - which I suppose is a sine qua non of Lifetime (and Hallmark) movie characterisation. The most irritating (yet endearing)thing was their utter failure to research British social and cultural references.

Was it so low-budget that they couldn't even afford a Brit to help them get the details right? Of course it was! For instance, we don't tend to call University 'school' - that's for 5-18 year-old children over here in Blighty. The (ahem) Scottish pub music was more akin to that found in a New York 'Irish' bar. Ah, but I forgot, this is the wonderfully dopey world of Lifetime....

I simply cannot wait for the Hallmark take on the Royal story and am stocking up on toffee popcorn and ice cream.