Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

SnoopyStyle Nancy Drew (Emma Roberts) is a mystery solving machine. She joins her lawyer father Carson (Tate Donovan) on a business trip to L.A. Bess (Amy Bruckner) and Georgie (Kay Panabaker) are her best friends. Ned Nickerson (Max Thieriot) is secretly in love with her. She picked an abandoned mansion with a movie star murder mystery to live in but her father makes her promise not to sleuth anymore. It's a struggle to fit into Hollywood high school and not to sleuth. Her only new friend is Corky (Josh Flitter) while Inga Veinshtein (Daniella Monet) is the mean girl. In the end, she can't stop investigating with her friends' help.This is a mishmash of lots of different things while trying to revive this old franchise. The murder mystery is very serious. There is a light Nickelodeon touch with teen star Emma Roberts. There is a good fish out of water story but I don't like the Hollywood setting. I would have liked her hometown girlfriends to get back into the movie with Ned and stay until the end. There are even an explosion, kidnapping and near-death action sequences. This movie is doing too many different things although I like some of those things.

adi_2002 And our little hero even looks like Daphne. And what does she do? Solve mysteries. As Nancy. And it seems it is very good, making police job in her hometown. Is a girl with a high IQ, incredibly smart, a little genius. She moves with her father in another city. Staying in a house where lived an old actress who was missing for then to be found dead and the cause is still not known. Then she goes to school where it is not seen very well, her classmates make fun of her because of old-fashioned clothes that she wears. Nancy can not help but find out what happened to Delhi and from some old movies slowly finds all sorts of clues that help find out who is the killer. Surprising was the appearance of Bruce Willis, even if only for 30 seconds and I liked when she got introduced to Nancy used his real name. The film has some flaws. Shows us how she went to school but just one day? Then he went not. I do not think it says how old is our detective so can drive a car and parade through traffic. I can not say I liked this movie but i didn't hate it either. It is to see if you want to remember the childhood, if you want to get into the minds of children. But honestly better I looked at "Bolt".

James Hitchcock Nancy Drew is the heroine of a series of mystery novels about a girl detective; the character first appeared in 1930 and new novels are still being published today. The titles are all attributed to one Carolyn Keene, but, as one might expect from a literary career supposedly lasting at least eighty years, Ms Keene is just as fictitious as the character purportedly created by her. (The books have actually been written by a chain of ghostwriters). The popularity of the series (among young girls and their parents if not among literary critics) might have made it a natural choice for a Hollywood franchise, but in fact this is the first "Nancy Drew" film since four episodes (none of which I have ever seen) in 1938-39.In the original series Nancy had left school and could therefore devote all her time to solving mysteries. (She was originally sixteen but in later editions her age was raised to eighteen). In this film, however, she is once again sixteen and still at school; perhaps the film-makers felt that it would be easier for their young target audience to identify with a schoolgirl than with a young adult.In this version Nancy and her widower father move from the small town of River Heights to Los Angeles where he has a temporary job for a few months. They rent a house which once belonged to Dehlia Draycott, a famous movie star from the sixties and seventies who was mysteriously found drowned in her own swimming pool in 1981. The character appears to have been based on Natalie Wood, who also drowned mysteriously; the dates of birth and death (1938-1981) are the same. Her Christian name may be a reference to another unsolved Hollywood mystery, the notorious "Black Dahlia" murder case; the name "Dehlia" is pronounced like the British pronunciation of "dahlia".Although Nancy's father has forbidden her to carry out any further sleuthing so that she might concentrate on her school work, she cannot resist investigating the Draycott mystery. She quickly comes to the conclusion that Draycott was murdered and, moreover, that she knows who the murderer is and what his or her motives were. She also learns that Draycott had an illegitimate daughter, Jane, whom she had privately adopted. Nancy strives to unmask the killer and to ensure that Jane receives her rightful inheritance, but finds that she is herself in danger.There are also subplots dealing with Nancy's romance with her River Heights sweetheart Ned, her friendship with a younger boy named Corky and her relationships with the other girls at her new school. One of the film's themes seems to be that conservatism (with a small "c") is cool. Nancy is a very old-fashioned figure. She dresses smartly but extremely conservatively and drives a Nash Metropolitan convertible, a make of car manufactured between 1958 and 1962. (This characterisation may owe something to the belief, apparently widespread among certain Hollywood scriptwriters, that all parts of America situated more than about a hundred miles from either the East or the West coast, especially the small towns, exist in some sort of Pleasantville-style timewarp where it is forever 1958).Besides dressing and acting like a character from a fifties sitcom, Nancy also possesses another characteristic which, in most American high school comedies, is guaranteed to make its possessor the butt of her classmates' scorn and contempt- a high degree of academic intelligence. Yet the overall message seems to be that it is possible to dress conservatively without being a frump and to excel in class without being a geek. Nancy's retro-style chic makes her look much more attractive and stylish than do the more contemporary fashions sported by the other girls- it helps that Nancy' is played by Emma Roberts, who has clearly inherited the good looks of her Auntie Julia- and she ends up as the most popular girl in the school.The film was not a great hit with the critics, but it did well enough at the box office to satisfy the film-makers; a sequel is said to be in the offing. It is not a bad film, being a well-made, clean-cut, family values sort of entertainment that Mum and Dad can take the kids to see without embarrassment. It is so squeaky-clean that the producers could even allow themselves the unusual luxury of casting in the leading role an actress who is the same age as the character she is portraying, instead of resorting to the more normal expedient of having high school pupils played by actors in their twenties or even thirties. Nevertheless, I thought that it was too bland to appeal to an adult audience, that the story is too pat and predictable and that Nancy herself comes across as just a bit too smug and self-assured to be entirely sympathetic. 5/10

mattkratz This wasn't too bad an adaptation of the book series as the heroine moves to California and tackles a case against her father's wishes. The case involves the mysterious disappearance of a movie star and her long lost child. I thought the movie was just the right combination of suspense, humor, writing, and acting, and Emma Roberts was the perfect choice to play Nancy. The annoying little kid in the film was also good and well-cast. Any fan of the book series will find plenty to like about this movie. I certainly did. I enjoyed watching it. I think it was the perfect start to a movie series. You will enjoy watching it too.*** out of ****