Netflix's Princess Switch is already a Christmas movie hit with viewers
"You know what's better than one Vanessa Hudgens? Two Vanessa Hudgenses"
T’is the season for Netflix to release a barrage of brand new Christmas films for viewers and one of those festive treats is already making quite the impression.
When the trailer for The Princess Switch - a new The Prince and the Pauper meets The Parent Trap meets The Great British Bake Off offering starring High School Musical’s Vanessa Hudgens – first landed fans just couldn’t wait to clap eyes on it.
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Set just one week before Christmas, The Princess Switch sees Hudgens starring as "Margaret, the gorgeous Duchess of Montenaro" and Stacy, a "commoner from Chicago", who discover that they just so happen to look exactly like each other.
The pair both fancy a change so they decide to swap lives and, of course, chaos, mayhem, romance and magic ensue.
Now that they've finally seen the film, fans are already declaring it a Christmas movie hit.
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In fact, The Princess Switch is already generating nearly as much buzz as Netflix's 2017 festive favourite, A Christmas Prince, a film that so carefully tread the line between awful and addictive that it actually landed its own sequel, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding, which streams from December 2018.
Oh, and did we mention that there's a trailer for said sequel included in The Princess Switch?
Now that's what we call clever Christmas marketing.
The Princess Switch is available to stream on Netflix
