19 Thoughts I Had While Watching “The Princess Switch: Switched Again” - Vogue

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I have a confession to make: I have never seen the Netflix original movie The Princess Switch. I assume, based on context clues, that it’s about a princess who gets switched, but I really can’t be sure. Luckily, a sequel recently hit the streaming service, so I had a second chance to acquaint myself with the franchise’s charms. Below, find an ordered list of everything I thought while watching The Princess Switch: Switched Again.

• Okay, so Stacy (Vanessa Hudgens!) is a baker who flew to Belgravia (?) for a baking contest and switched places with Margaret, the Duchess of Montenaro (also Vanessa Hudgens!), who happens to be identical to her (because they’re both Vanessa Hudgens!). Now Margaret is in love with Stacy’s friend Kevin (Nick Sagar), and Stacy is full-on married to Margaret’s former fiancé, Prince Edward (Sam Palladio). Got it? Good, because I’m already tired.

• Now Margaret is apparently in line for the throne, which is apparently causing romance problems for everyone. We’ll probably find out why.

• The Belgravia Royal Castle’s Christmas decorations are making me wish Thanksgiving would hurry up and end, so we could get to tree season already.

• Stacy is very worried about Margaret’s upcoming coronation, partly because Margaret recently broke up with Kevin, whose young daughter really misses them as a couple. I’m no screenwriter, but I’m going to guess these two are going to end up back together!

• Someone in Chicago is ordering a hot dog on the street, and now I can’t stop thinking about how unappealing it sounds to eat a hot dog in the freezing Midwestern cold. Street dogs are a spring, summer and fall food only.

• Stacy is in Chicago, it turns out, to invite Margaret’s sad ex Kevin to her coronation. He claims he’s moved on, but he’s in sweats, which is movie code for “a shell of a human being,” so...

• Okay, we’re all going to Montenaro, where Margaret lives. (I know royals are wealthy, but couldn't Stacy have texted Kevin to grab a JetBlue flight and save a little cash?)

• I don’t know why, but I hate Kevin’s turtleneck. He’s actually pretty hot, and he deserves a better sweater.

• Montage/palace tour time! Kevin and Margaret get into one of those classic throwing-flour-on-each-other fights that play so well in rom-coms, but would be extremely weird IRL. 

• We’ve reached that crucial second switch! We meet a party-girl blonde (also—you won’t believe this—Vanessa Hudgens!), who turns out to be Margaret’s cousin Fiona. She says things like “Pics or it didn’t happen,” so we know she is bad.

• Meanwhile, Margaret’s chief of staff curves Kevin by proxy, asking if he’s “truly the consort for a queen.” Okay, Queen Elizabeth II! God, I wish I hadn‘t blown through Season 4 of The Crown so quickly. Unbeknownst to them, Stacy and Margaret agree to switch places again so that Margaret can spend more leisure time with Kevin.

• Eventually, it occurs to a broke Fiona that she looks, uh...exactly like Margaret (and Stacy), and that could be to her advantage in making off with royal money. She dyes her hair dark and promptly starts wreaking havoc as Margaret’s impostor clone.

• There are a lot of filler scenes in which Kevin’s daughter Christmas-shops, but, unfortunately, my brain is glazing over too much to recap them. Cute kid, though!

• Fiona is extremely awful at being Margaret, because—if you recall—Margaret is good, and Fiona is bad. Fiona’s minions lock Stacy up in a cellar, thinking she’s Margaret, and...yeah. My brain hurts.

• Prince Edward figures out the deception, which seems to be his only real role in the movie, and Stacy is rescued.

• Unfortunately, that’s not the end of this deeply convoluted plot; Margaret’s chief of staff sees an incriminating tattoo and realizes that the woman he thinks is Margaret is really Fiona. Sadly, he also sucks, and is down to help her get coronated and flee if she splits the royal cash with him.

• Fiona-as-Margaret dumps Kevin (rude!), and he and his daughter prepare to go back to Chicago. Not so fast, though; a reunited Margaret and Stacy stop Fiona’s coronation, intercept Kevin at the airport, and have a handily present priest marry Kevin and the real Margaret.

• Also, Margaret is queen now. So, are they going to split their time between Montenaro and Chicago, or...? How is Kevin’s daughter going to do school? Distance learning? Okay, I'll stop.

• The movie is over, and my brain is officially oatmeal. Happy holidays, one and all!

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