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Emma Roberts as Nancy Drew
I saw her in Aquamarine few days back on TV (Star Movies) and when I saw her again as Nancy Drew, Emma Roberts turn out to be stunning yet sweet and sizzlingly sleek. Nancy Drew took me back to those young days, when Nancy Drew novels where amongst the few that I enjoyed reading during school days. Well, yes, they are girl’s novels but I enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed the Hardy Boys. My neighbors had many grown up girls at that time and I was lucky to have access to lots of books from them.
The movie starts with Nancy Drew helping the local police to catch two local thieves in her home town of River Heights. She is able to solve mysteries with her intellect, quick reflexes and her handy sleuth kit. Nancy Drew’s lives with her father, attorney Carson Drew (played by Tate Donovan in the movie). Though happy with his daughter’s intellect, he is worried about the dangers she finds herself in.
Very early on in the movie, Carson decides to take Nancy to Los Angeles while he works on a special case. He even ask her to stop sleuthing and act like a normal teenager - party, enjoy, etc. Nancy sort of agreed but her intuition gets the better of her and she began to look into the mystery surrounding the death of famous actress Dehlia Draycott, whose old mansion Nancy’s dad is renting.
The mystery is not that complicated but good enough for young audiences. Well, Emma was the eye candy of the movie and she is one character which can serve enough reason to watch this movie once. As for the film-makers, if they decide to pull the Nancy Drew series along and have a franchise, they’ll have to do better than this one. This first Nancy Drew movie is OK but not that good. People who have not read Nancy Drew before may not really like the movie.
The movie have been brushed up appeal the current trend, may be to keep it relevant. Nancy used a first generation iPod with a recorder extension. She fiddles on a Macbook, uses Safari to look for related clues. She drives her blue roadster (like in the books). In many other books, Nancy drove a blue convertible, a blue mustang.
So, for those Nancy Drew fans, this movie is a good refresher of the yester-years.
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