Princess Switch 3 – the 2021 Christmas present from this dumb franchise – decides it doesn’t want to be a wacky romantic comedy OR a dumb con-woman flick. No, now it has delusions of being a heist film. Someone has stolen a Vatican artifact from the dummies and the Vanessas Hudgens have to turn to the evil campy cousin from the second flick to help steal it back.

Who told them that we cared about the evil cousin? I guess if you like over-the-top camp cheese, this non-entity of FABulous mannerisms might appeal. I think she’s annoying and stupid and unconvincing at whatever glam overkill she’s going for. And I don’t care about her love so making this flick HER romantic comedy is just dire.

I give the movie a tiny amount of credit for tossing in some unearned pathos at the very end of the flick. Even I’m not so big an eye-rolling ogre to hate on a little family drama and Christmas cheer. I need to have my head and heart examined for being such a random sap though.

Really disliked this holiday turkey. The Princess Switch franchise (ack) needs to get back to basics. Probably get another Vanessa Hudgens in the mix and go back to being a romantic comedy. Or just toss it all in the fire and tell us this was giant cloning experiment and there’s actually hundreds of Vanessa Hudgens running around… including one who starred in an equally dopey series of musicals for the Disney Channel.

Score: 61