|
|
Latest Images
Top Affiliates
|
|
Press - 2005
New This Week
Play along at home with the Ice Princess “Write That Screenplay” Game! In
Disney’s latest formulaic tween-empowerment fantasy, high school physics nerd
Casey (Michelle Trachtenberg) confronts her no-nonsense granola single mom (Joan
Cusack) over a clash of goals. Mom has been pushing Casey towards Harvard; Casey
wants to use her knack for aerodynamics to become a figure-skating champ. “But
Harvard was our dream,” implores Mom. And Casey responds …? C’mon, if you didn’t
say, “No, Mom—it was your dream,” you’ve never seen one of the hundred Karate
Kid-esque movies exactly like this, though Kim Cattrall as Casey’s coach is
admittedly a hotter tough-love veteran instructor than Mr. Miyagi. It’s a
harmless enough piece of piffle, though a bit silly at moments like when a
dropped backpack reveals Casey’s ice skates and Mom reacts like a kilo of smack
just spilled out. But even the 12-year-olds in the audience deserve better than
“harmless,” and a story with a script so familiar every single person reading
this paragraph could have written it.
|
