What a Girl Wants (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: Nothing we haven't seen before...
Review: It's hard work cramming as many clichés as you can into a film and success isn't always forthcoming, however I'm pleased to announce that in What A Girl Wants the cliché level has been maintained to its fullest and it's a rip roaring cliché success!
Let's walk through it now...
A little girl named Daphne Reynolds lives with her hippie mother. She is told the tale of how the cool singer (Kelly Preston) met a mysterious hippie (Colin Firth) in Morocco. They were wed Bedouin style and then went to London, where hippie guy lived. It turns out he's next in line to be a Lord and his Dad (the current Lord) just died. Now the Evil Advisor (Jonathan Pryce) gets rid of the new Lord's true love to mould him into a proper English gent and such.
Fast forward 17 years. Hippie girl was pregnant when run off the ranch, and now her daughter, Miss Wayout, wants to find her father. She jets off to London to find him (to strains of The Clash singing London Calling, of course) and it turns out he's a big politician about to be married to some troll from under a bridge. Miss Wayout (Amanda Bynes) arrives and is naturally all teenage and stuff, like, and she doesn't, like, fit in like, you know? Troll (daughter of original Evil Advisor) is trying to get rid of her so she can be the Lord's wife (once he gets into power of course). Unfortunately, Miss Wayout was just what the stuffy English doctor ordered, because all of English society loves her and her zany, madcap adventures. (You can guess the rest if you like, but I'll give it to you anyway).
Aimed primarily at girls between ages ten through 18, this is nothing we've not seen before. Riddled with clichés and awkwardness (Daphne falls over or bangs her head no less than five times) this is a very predictable film with very little to offer as a story (one thing I'd really like to know though, is why these films all promote `being yourself and individual' yet they all tell the same story in the same way? Isn't that a teensy bit hypocritical?)
Anyway, while it has some moments of humour, to me it all smacks like a million other teenage girl films I've watched and by the end I was pretty glad it was over. Kelly Preston is wasted, Colin Firth and Jonathan Pryce are as well, and the supporting cast seem to get most of the screen time. This has also been very loosely based on The Reluctant Debutante, a stage play by William Douglas Home, but I'm fairly sure he wouldn't recognise it.



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Summary: Why lord, why?
Review: I would rather be tortured at gunpoint than watch this movie. Formulaic, banal, crap. King Ralph for teenagers.

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Summary: Review by Cindy and Annie
Review: I thought 'What a girl wants' was great. It was not a very dark story but a fun comedy. There was a handsome guy Colin Firth. It was also funny that Daphne was not suited to English high class society.

It seemed like everyone was in a struggle. Especially the struggle between Daphne and Clarisa was really exciting because Clarisa was very rude to Daphne but they did not actually fight. It made us laugh. Daphne changed because she wanted to fit herself into English society therefore Ian was disappointed. Finally, Daphne got back to her family and fell in true love with Ian. My favorite scene was when Daphne danced with Henry. I would recommend this movie to my best friends.


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Summary: hubba hubba!!!!!!
Review: WOW WOW WOW!!! Amanda Bynes is one little cutie!!!! Ooogie Boooga!!!! AY AY AY AY AY!!!!!