After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale Prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity, or until the Prince can convince a maiden to kiss, and then marry him.
In the fifteenth century, the Kingdom of Anwyn has been in a war against the Lothian Kingdom for three hundred years. Now the womanizing Prince John of Anwyn (Sean Maguire) will marry Lothian Princess Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate) to bring peace to the kingdoms. He rides with his clumsy wizard squire Rodney of Tudor (Martin Short) and his father King Leo (Colin Fox) to the Lothian Castle for the wedding. However, on the day of the wedding, Prince John is caught shagging a peasant woman, and Lothian King Pius (David Fox) and Queen Isabel (Marcia Bennett) curse Prince John and Rodney, and they are doomed to "frogging" by the wizard Wacktazar (Julian Richings) for all eternity. The spell will only be broken if a maiden kisses John and marries him. Five hundred years later, John and Rodney are still frogs. One day, a boy catches and brings them to New York City and they escape to Central Park. When Margo (Bernadette Peters) kisses John in the park, Rodney and he become men again. John seeks out Margo to marry her and end the curse, and they meet the gorgeous Kate (Christina Applegate), who helps them. John knows that he must marry Margo, but he falls in love with Kate.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A middle-aged male prince and his middle-aged male best friend both get cursed into frogs in the old days and end up in the new modern world and need to find a way to destroy the curse and find their real true loves before it is too late and remain as frogs forever.—RECB3
Prince John (Sean Maguire) of the fictional province of Anwyn prides himself on having rescued countless maidens as a way of eventually bedding them. In order to end three centuries of war with the realm of Lothian, he is made to marry the princess Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate), who is convinced that they will live happily ever after. Queen Isabel (Marcia Bennett) of Lothian is not convinced that John is the right match for Gwendolyn, but she has already promised her heart to the Prince. Meanwhile, King Leo (Colin Fox), and John's father has forced this match upon him, and he is not at all happy about it. The groom's party travels to Lothian for the wedding ceremony.
However, on his wedding day, Prince John commits a romantic indiscretion (he rescues a maiden from goons at the bell tower and proceeds to have sex with her, which rings the gong multiple times and attracts everyone's attention) and is discovered, breaking the heart of the princess. As punishment King Pius (David Fox) of Lothian wants war against Anwyn, but Leo offers John for any punishment that Pius sees fit. John is cursed by being turned into a frog forever, until such time as a maiden kisses him and marries him by the next full moon.For good measure, his squire Rodney (Martin Short) is similarly "frogged". The spell allows them to live for as long as it takes for John to be kissed human again.
Waiting 500 years, the Prince and Rodney, in the form of frogs, find themselves in New York's Central Park (a boy picks up the frogs from near Lothian castle (which is a tourist attraction now). The boy puts the frogs in his bag and takes them to NYC. The frogs manage to escape and make their way to central park to hide), where the Prince sees Kate (Christina Applegate) driving her horse-drawn carriage and is almost kissed by her before she is interrupted and instead is released within Central Park.
Later, an aging actress, Margo (Bernadette Peters), impetuously picks up the frog prince and kisses him, breaking the curse until the next full moon, and turning the Prince and Rodney into their human selves (still dressed in medieval clothing, and with no knowledge of how the world has changed over the centuries). Margo loves her director Hamish, who is unfaithful to her and has cast another muse Camille (Meredith McGeachie) in the role of Juliet, passing over Margo. Hamish picks the frog (John) and says he would love Margo, even if she looked like the frog. Margo dares Hamish to kiss it, but when he can't, Margo does.
Prince John and Rodney begin their search for the woman who kissed John (They have 5 days to find Margo and get her to marry John), with the reluctant help of a skeptical Kate (She is promised a handsome payment for her help). John and Rodney hire Kate and her horse cart for $50/hour and pay her in gold coin. Kate doesn't believe it's real. An appraiser tells her that the coin is rare and worth $6000. He also says (which Rodney hears) that Anwyn was destroyed when the Kingdom of Lothia attacked and beheaded Leo, thereby ending the Anwyn line.After a series of comic encounters and setbacks, the Prince, in his human form, finally meets Margo, who is performing Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" at a open air theatre inside central park.
Margo decides to make her unfaithful lover, Hamish (Billy Connolly), jealous by initiating a romantic tryst. She gets Hamish to hire John in the play, as understudy for a fairy. Kate teaches John what true love is. Kate takes the duo shopping and feeds them, since she has a lot of money left over.Meanwhile, Rodney finds in Serena (Andrea Martin) (Margo's dresser) a fellow "wizard", and they try to find potions that will ensure that Prince John marries Margo (Rodney had told Serena the complete truth).
Rodney and Serena conspire to put Margo and John together in as many plays and rehearsals as possible. Margo likes John's performances. But John finds time to spend with Kate (He takes Kate to the Met Museum where he shows her portraits of his father Leo and himself to prove what he has been saying is true. He tells Kate that it's his destiny to marry Margo, else he and Rodney will again turn into a frog). Serena and Rodney work together to get Margo to invite John to dinner at her place.The Prince, realizing that he must marry Margo in order to permanently break the curse, proposes marriage, even as he is falling in love with Kate. Margo rejects the proposal as she doesn't love John.
In desperation, Serena and Rodney whip up a potion to seduce Margo into accepting John's proposal. But before John and Serena can serve them the potions, John and Margo finish their dinner and retire for the night. John tells Rodney that Margo has agreed to marry him. But, at the altar, John changes his mind. He admits he loves Kate.
In the end, the Prince decides to marry Kate, and almost gives up his humanity forever to do so. After Kate kisses him back into a human being, all three couples manage to find themselves with the right person, the curse is forever broken by true love (as was foretold when the spell was first enacted), and all marry to live happily ever after in modern New York City.
