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Kavi · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject: Nancy Drew the Movie

Get ready for a rant to end all rants

I happened to be in the room when this movie was turned on for my little sister. I was a dedicated reader of Nancy Drew as a child, and I thought I might as well stay in the room, give it a chance, and I happened to have my laptop plugged in here, so I can't escape.

Well for starters, I realize that Nancy Drew wasn't the most brillantly written, or most amazing mystery series ever, but it was classic!

Lets see, where can I start?

With the fact that Nancy's suddenlly an anal, obbsessive compusive control freak? That's she's now a goody-goody two shoes that even I want to knock over? The actress looks 12, which is slightly weird considering she's driving around, getting death threats. The dialog was written by someone who has probably never read a book in their life. the director may have been dropped on the head as a child, and whoever was brave enough to produce this had to be slightly insane. The story is mediocure at best, with a silly mystery easily solved. The lines are so lame they make my head hurt, and the acting is lacking to put it nicely. I suppose the highlight of my astonishment came when Nancy performed a traciodomy (spellings off, but its where you cut someone's throat and insert a ball point pen, allowing them to breath through an alergy attact) Also, Nancy was a bit of a McGiever, which I don't remember from the books at all. A ghost gives her the main clue, she insists on penny loafers and color coded food, she's staying in the fifties becuse she "Likes old fashioned things" To share my pain with you, I am including some of the lines from the movie. Keep in mind, this was not a satire, a parody, or anything other then someone's attempt to put Emma Roberts into the spotlight.

Nancy Drew: Excuse me, I have to defuse this bomb. (this was after she walks up to her car and sees a block of C4 lying in the back seat, she drops it down what appears to be a gas line)

Thug: Who are you?
Nancy Drew: Hello. I'm Nancy Drew. It's nice to meet you. May I ask who you are?

Nancy "It really gets my goat when someone tries to kill me, its just so rude!" (they're giving chase to the bad guys) Ned, "Then let the horses run!" (refering to the car presumably) Nancy, "We will go the posted speed and no more" (self rightious voice) (and also, the bad guys stopped at all the red lights and obeyed the traffic laws, these are some very nice bad guys)

I could point out that a preppy little 12 year old wandering downtown LA is just an accident waiting to happen. Or that, to get birth records unsealed, all Nancy does is pop a brownie out of her purse for the clerk.

However, my nine year old sister thought it was great, (I am worried about her) but she never read the books.

Honestly, I think that this was a lame attempt to try and promote Julie Roberts niece, I think it was a shoddy movie, a severly bad show of acting, the writing was just laughable, and the whole production isn't worth spending any time over.

Rant over:D

If you saw this movie and LIKED IT please post and explain to me HOW!

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