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Press - 2005
This Week's Attractions
With its familiar and talented actresses, including Kim Cattrall (playing a
skating coach, of all things) and Joan Cusack, one might hope that this simple
story about a young, scholarly girl (Michelle Trachtenberg) with dreams of being
a famous figure skater would at least be bearable. Unfortunately, Princess can't
even match those modest expectations. The plot lacks imagination and substance:
Brainy high-schooler decides to try ice-skating to impress Harvard recruiters,
puts eyeliner on for a show and realizes she's beautiful, falls for the boy who
drives the Zamboni, and finally reconciles with her strict, disapproving mother
(Cusack). Worse, Trachtenberg's teen heroine can only be described as annoyingly
lackluster. (If Harvard doesn't work out, there's always community college.)
It's one thing to suspend your belief in gravity for The Matrix, another to
accept that Trachtenberg could land a triple axel within weeks of going to the
rink and without any training (apart from her mathematical equations that work
out the physics of the maneuver). One of the movie's big plot turns comes when
Cusack discovers ice skates hidden in Trachtenberg's book bag. Princess would've
been a lot more interesting if she'd found some normal teenage contraband there,
like crack.
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