Look, this is a Netflix holiday movie sequel, which means it was engineered in a lab to be inoffensive background noise for your holiday gathering. And it succeeds at that! It's safe, it's wholesome, it won't traumatize anyone.

But let's be real: it's also aggressively mediocre. The audience scores tell the whole story—people wanted to like this fluffy holiday fare and still couldn't muster enthusiasm. It's the exact same premise as the first movie (which was already derivative) but now with THREE Vanessa Hudgens characters instead of two, because apparently more is... more?

Younger elementary kids who loved the first Princess Switch might genuinely enjoy this. They're still in that sweet spot where princess movies are magic and they haven't yet developed the critical faculties to recognize a cash-grab sequel. For everyone else, this is the movie you put on when you need something playing in the background while you wrap presents.

It won't hurt anyone, but it also won't be remembered five minutes after the credits roll. Which, for a holiday movie sequel, might actually be the point.