Romance, Lavania and hair. Three words that sound as similar as rocks and cheese, like they don’t even belong in the same sentence- or movie.

The Royal Treatment is one of Netflix’s newest editions to its movie library. Set in the late 1970s, Izzy, a sweet humble salonist lives in New York and works at a beauty salon with her besties and mom. Prince Thomas hails from Lavania and has come to visit New York, and after a misunderstanding, Izzy is assigned to do the prince’s hair. After making quite the impression, the prince asks Izzy and her friends to come down to Lavania and do the hair and makeup of everyone for his upcoming wedding. While there, Izzy and the prince spend a lot of time together, and even teach each other a thing or two. But when the bride-to-be’s mother gets suspicious, will the wedding end in tears? Or will the wedding even happen?

Sounds like a plot straight from Hallmark. The idea of a pampered prince and a kind hairdresser getting together sounds cool, but the way it’s executed makes it drag. The story is slow and is brought down with unnecessary plot points. When action finally does happen, the movie goes too fast and doesn’t give us a realistic conclusion. The plot also creates jokes early on in the film and then resolves them at the end, which is cute, but it takes away from the actual point of the story. It’s almost like they are using the jokes to make up for the wasted screen time. We are dragged along the whole movie and the only reason why you would want to watch it is to see the conclusion, which is refreshing enough that it makes up for the rest of the movie.

But in the movie, knots are made that never get untied, or they get untied loosely. Izzy wants to leave the salon, but her mother doesn’t want her to go. But when Izzy finally branches off, her mother takes it lightly and gives her a hug. Adorable conclusion, but if it was that simple, why didn’t Izzy do it years ago? Because she was scared? If so, why wasn’t she more surprised? The conclusion is disappointing. The plot takes so long to actually get somewhere, and then it speeds up too much, making us confused. We spend an hour just waiting, and then the last 30 minutes go by in a blur. I might be exaggerating, but the movie could’ve been better if they used the extra time to add more interesting details to the plot to keep us engaged and add more to the story, instead of introducing all these random elements and trying to weave them into a story.

I wouldn’t care if the movie dropped off the face of the Earth, but I also wouldn’t die if I had to watch it again. So if you’ve got some time to kill and you’ve literally got nothing better to watch, give this movie a try. Better yet, go outside. Have a better romance than Mister Prince could ever dream of.