Great Film overall

Fantastic!

Brilliant and touching

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

I just finished watching Nancy Drew and what can I say is this film is good for the people who like detective wannabe things and story is pretty good I really love it you know,I want to watch this movie but,I don't have time.I really love this the actress who play Nancy is pretty good she is cute and fun also.I think for film like this I think is so so because I have see a good detective films than this but,I enjoyed watching it.

The most interesting thing about feature film-making is how the final cut rarely turns out quite the way it was initially visualized. Most of the time this is a bad thing but on occasion it is a good thing; typically thanks to some little detail of the production that creates an unexpected synergy between the other elements. For example, in "The Clique" (2008), an especially good costume designer decorates each scene with a creativity that transforms a teen movie into a visual homage of its source novel series.This same accidental homage to its literary source series occurs in "Nancy Drew" (2007); in this case because Emma Roberts (as the title character) unexpectedly transcends the intended parody; effortlessly selling the heroine she is playing. The film's original intention was to work on two levels; to give its middle school target audience an entertaining mystery film while subtly poking fun at its wrapped too tight traditional heroine. Much like "The Brady Bunch Movie" (1995) there would be some viewers who got it on this second level.But Roberts throws a monkey wrench into the works with a Winona Ryder type straight performance which adds a third dimension to the production. Even those laughing the loudest at the parody elements (which are not as extreme as those in "The Brady Bunch Movie") will find it hard to not identify with her character.Roberts' Nancy is the real thing. This is not Bonita Granville's "Nancy" who owed more to the heroines of 1930's screwball comedies than to her literary counterpart. Which is not to disparage those four very entertaining films, but to simply note that readers finally get to watch the heroine that they know; even if it is in a more contemporary environment.Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

This is a cute, Nickelodeon-type version of Nancy Drew, but it suffers a bit from a confused tone. It seems to me that the filmmakers couldn't decide if they wanted to celebrate or ridicule Nancy's abilities. Sometimes the movie seems like a semi-parody like "The Brady Bunch Movie," where the comedy came from the way the super goody-good fictional characters interacted with the "real" world around them (which is especially confusing, since Nancy Drew stories are usually mysteries, not out and out comedies). Other times it seems like a Disney Channel TV show. Other times it seems like real Nancy Drew (though it would benefit from more mysteriousness).On the positive side, the movie is very kid and teen friendly and Emma Roberts, the young star, is very appealing. She has that kind of likably precocious energy that Bonita Granville had in the original movies of the 30s and 40s. But it has been almost three years since this movie came out, and the sequel is set to come out in 2011. They really should have cranked out at least one a year in order to take advantage of her youth before they have to have a college age Nancy, even if they had to go the direct to DVD route. Perhaps they should have gone the TV-series route.

Who knew a Nancy Drew adventure could be this dull! Emma Roberts tries her best as the young detective who's fond of 'sleuthing', but the script constantly lets her down. There are a few moments of mild satire scattered throughout, with Nancy presented in a 'fish out of water' scenario, but the whole thing has a boring made-for-TV look. The plot is standard Nancy Drew with a mystery involving an old Hollywood star and a seemingly haunted house. This film is best suited for young girls (around twelve) who will probably identify with Nancy Drew. Adults beware.Overall 4/10