Comments on: Nancy Drew

By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:04:08 +0000

Oh, good suggestion. I’d like to see that.

By: David K.

David K. — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:11:13 +0000

I think this movie would have been a good sequel, but they really should have done a movie that was first set in River Heights that established the characters and their relationships.

By: Phoebe

Phoebe — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:25:16 +0000

I found the previews kind of interesting, but they didn’t really tell about the mystery, which is what i wanted to know about. The movie was really great though and they should make another one, with bess and george in it, in River Heights. Not in Hollywood. Where did that idea come from anyway???

By: James Schee

James Schee — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:43:20 +0000

Yeah she looks to have as bright a future ahead as her aunt Julia. I wouldn’t have bought the movie, but it was worth the $1.08 I paid to rent it. (there’s a rental to go machine service called Redbox, that lets you rent movies by the day)

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:15:05 +0000

Glad you got a chance to check it out. It was a good performance by Emma Roberts.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:39:46 +0000

I just watched this movie now, and oddly we had some different takes on things.

I do wish Bess and George would have had more than cameo roles. Yet it was still kind of fun to watch.

I didn’t get a because Nancy was smart and capable that she’d be made fun of. It was more of a “she’s not one of us and she’s new so let’s go for it.” Type of deal to my view.

I thought it was a good message to send that Nancy never tried to change who she was in order to fit in with the other girls.(I was sure there’d be a “well I can change some to fit in” scene)

If anything the two fashion idiot girls seemed to be the ones who learned the most which is what a hero should do. (win people over)

Nancy herself was just great, and darn if it doesn’t make me want to pull out one of her books to read. (though in them she’s not this together)

By: Rivkah

Rivkah — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:10:18 +0000

“It’s ok to be pierced and wear strange-but-fashionable clothes. It’s not ok to be smart and value old-fashioned ideas and outfits.”

That’s strange. Most the teens I know think “retro” = cool and hip, and IMHO, I agree. Half my wardrobe looks like it walked out of the 50′s because the 50′s had a lot of very flattering, feminine shaped clothing, unlike the bulky, baggy, formless cr*p that’s currently being pushed by most companies.

And most of the complements I get on my more blatantly 50′s style dress comes from teens and college students. Hasn’t hollywood picked up yet that originality and differences are in?

;)

That’s frustrating. I would have actually watched this. They could have had a lot more fun with the plot staying in the small town and playing on and making fun of its quirks. Here, it just sound shallow and dumb.

*goes back to making entertainment for smart, quirky girls who are proud of their differences and not looked down on because of it*

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:47:16 +0000

That’s not her brother, but a kid from school who’s jumped grades and has a crush on her.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:35:58 +0000

I’m curious about the movie, but nothing from the ads I saw made me think of the Nancy Drew from those great books I read as a kid.(loved those and the Bobsy Twins as a kid)

She’s not with her friends Bess and George which is a point in the negative. Plus the addition of a brother seems awkward as well.

By: Jer

Jer — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:30:25 +0000

Much of the plot happens because the bad guys keep attacking her, silly choices made just to keep the action moving.

Huh. It sounds like the filmmakers might have gotten “Nancy Drew” mixed up with “The Hardy Boys.” What you describe above is the way I remember the Hardy Boys books working when I read them as a kid – and why I gave up on the series pretty quickly and read the Nancy Drew books instead.

It’s too bad the movie does sound as bad as every review I read of it last year. I really wanted a good Nancy Drew movie, but every commercial made it look like a “Brady Bunch”-lite movie without the charm of the “Brady Bunch” movie. And it sounds like that might have been right.