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Summary: A Cross Between Lizzie McGuire and The Princess Diaries
Review: The key to enjoying What a Girl Wants is low expectations. Amanda Bynes is no Lindsay Lohan and What a Girl Wants is no Princess Diaries or Parent Trap. But it is an engaging story, entertaining enough to watch it all the way through.Colin Firth probably saves this movie, without him, it might drag on a bit. But his excellent acting makes any scene he is in worth watching, and fortunately, he is in most of the scenes. So, while this won't be a movie you want to watch over and over, like Freaky Friday, (it's more like Lizzie McGuire), it's worth a look.
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Summary: relatively good, but some forced humor
Review: I am a huge sucker for British accents, so I went to see this movie the first week it premeered in theaters. Since I have no cable television, Amanda Bynes is a new face for me. Colin Firth is quite convincing as Lord Henry Dashwood, and Bynes, although forced to make some typical American mess-ups as the script mandates, does an admirable job as the young, impetuous, but ultimately caring, good-hearted heroine. I have to say, though, that the best character for me was Oliver James, not because of his acting abilities, which were not thoroughly explored, but his singing voice needs to get more credit. In truth, he should release an album over here in the States. Those two songs on the soundtrack just don't give me enough! Speaking of the soundtrack, I love how they used "I Wanna be Bad"! I wish they had played the entire song during the film! The caniving, devious step-sister and mother, (rather like Cinderella, don't you think)? are decent as well, and the grandmother is extremely funny in the little screen time she is given. I'd actually recomend this, if only for the British actors, and Amanda Bynes's cute, charming, if a bit chiche, performance.
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Summary: The best chick-flick ever!
Review: This movie is my favorite of all time! The actors are great in this movie, and the story is so wonderful!!! Amanda Bynes plays a 17-year-old girl who lives in a five story walk-up in Chinatown, New York. She has never met her dad, but every year her mom tells her the story of how they met. Her dad, Lord Dashwood, was a major political force in England. Libby, her mom, had been seperated from him because people in Lord Dashwood's political advisory had lied to both of them. She decides to take off on her own and go to London to find her dad. Watch the movie to see what happens!! The DVD is great, you should definitely get the DVD over the video to enjoy this movie more. It has a challenging "What's A Girl to Wear" game, along with commentaries, trailer, and hidden easter eggs. This is a movie you will want to watch again and again! I love it!
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Summary: Better than Princess Diaries -- a genuinely cute flick.
Review: I am normally not one for "chick flicks." My daughter had this movie and was watching it constantly on a recent boat trip, and darned if I didn't get hooked on it. An impossibly cute Amanda Bynes plays a young American girl who is (unknown to her father) the daughter of a British Lord and politician (Colin Firth as the aptly-named Lord Dashwood is, well, dashing). She impulsively flies to England to meet him, and therein lies a genuinely cute, funny, and touching story. Maybe it is because I have a daughter of my own, but I found the chemistry between Bynes and Firth to be irresistable, and enough to overcome my usual antipathy to films of this genre. At times the storyline is a bit "over the top" but even for a hard-boiled character like myself it holds the viewer's interest throughout. Obviously this is a take-off on the "Cinderella" theme, complete with the Evil Stepsister, and the film acknowledges that in a humorous way that I won't spoil for you. The sets are gorgeous, the supporting cast is pretty good, and overall there is a great deal about this movie to like. My wife and daughter like these types of movies, and I am subjected to them on trips as a result. In my opinion this one is far and away the best of the bunch, far better than "Princess Diaries."
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Summary: Amanda is lovely...
Review: Just like on her show WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU, she is bubbly, cute, and has a sense of humor, and essentially plays herself, great film, she will be a bright new star soon...
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Summary: What This Girl Wants to Buy!
Review: I saw this movie at a friend's house and totally loved it. The cast was excellent (Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, and more), and so was the story. A very heartwarming and cute movie. Yes, it was a little like 'The Parent Trap' and 'The Princess Diaries', but it was its own movie with its own charm. 17-year-old NYC girl Daphne Reynolds goes on a search to find her father, a British politician, who has been MIA all her life. You'll find out more when you watch the movie. Amanda Bynes (I'm a big fan of her now) played her part so well! She's clumsy, quirky, hip, different, and likeable. Colin Firth was great! Especially the father/daughter scenes between those two characters. Awww... Anyways, I know this may not be a very informative review, but watch this movie, girls! (and parents, too!) I actually gotta buy the DVD for myself, soon, so I can stop pestering my friend to watch it again and again when I go over there! :)
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Summary: AWWW!
Review: Oh my gosh! i absolutely loved this movie! This is my all time favorite movie to just sit down and watch with my Mother! I mean You have this all-american girl who travels to a distant country, falls madly in love. And finds a part of her that was missing! AWWW! I bought this movie and I've already watched it like 7 times! I love it!
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Summary: Too..too..FAKE!
Review: I admit that once you start this movie you won`t want to stop, and that the extra features are good, but this seems too fake! Like what are the odds of you having a father who`s running for whatever in England, and is marrying a money-hunter, and never knew about you???
I think that if you watch this you`ll agree with me that Byne`s has done much better than this!
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Summary: Horrible movie...don't even bother
Review: This movie was one of the worst I've seen, with a cheesy, overly predictable plot and amateur acting. It also portrays Americans as clumsy and brash and the British as overly pompous and unaffectionate, which was a disappointment. The movie is clearly aimed for female "teenie-boppers" between 8 and 12 years of age, and is highly annoying to anyone else who attempts to watch this garbage. Just pass it up and don't waste your time.
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Summary: Best Film of the Decade!!!
Review: Unfortunately, this will never make the Top Ten lists of those idiotic snobbish critics. It seems these self-important dunces can't recognize great art if it isn't all wrapped up in a big red bow and stamped with the official seal of academic approval. But great art is what this is, by crackey! Simply because the director, the great Umberto Palladino, chose to work in the reviled genre of Hollywood teen romantic comedies, these pretentious cretins can't see what a truly subversive, revolutionary artistic accomplishment we have before us. When Palladino and his sublime cinematographer Kwong-loi Tan repeatedly hold a long, lingering gaze at Amanda's scantily clad torso, the effect is not, as the clodhopping critics aver, exploitative: It is, rather, as brilliant and daring a satire of mindless American pop culture's fixation on the body as could be wrought. Furthermore, by such bold artistic choices, Palladino and Tan are making a profound postmodernist statement about how ideologies, even so-called progressive liberal ideologies, are written on the body...and also BY the body. The Body--qua body--is ineluctable, inescapable: That is one of the many deep meanings of this inexhaustively inventive film. But, alas, the hoi polloi (including our supposed intellectuals) mistake this profound parodic statement for the "real thing" and either ogle it or decry it. Such obtuseness makes one weep a river of tears for our feeble species, which scorns the truly great artists of our time and only lavishes its accolades when these titanic geniuses are long gone and thus no longer able to profit from them.
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