Nancy Drew
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
This is fairly harmless kids stuff … so harmless in fact that there’s little else to say about it. Emma Roberts looks the part and hits the marks but there’s nothing much that’s memorable about her like there was, say, about Michelle Trachtenberg in the also much more visually interesting Harriet the Spy. There are a couple of cute cameos by Bruce Willis and Adam Goldberg, and Rachael Leigh Cook is always good as long as it’s not She’s All That. Visually it feels more like a Disney TV movie, though, and from Andrew Fleming that’s a damn shame – I think I’m reminded of Tower of Terror which had a similar kind of Old Hollywood mystery behind it if I remember correctly. It has enough cute moments to get by, though.