 First Daughter ought to be called Worst Daughter, Lou Lumenick puns in the New York Post. Most other critics appear to agree that it is worse than Chasing Liberty, which came out in January with pretty much the same plot about a presidential daughter falling for a Secret Service bodyguard -- and quickly faded. In fact, says Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe, the movie "is such a phony-cutesy fairy tale that it makes the European gallivanting in Chasing Liberty seem like Bonnie and Clyde." Writes Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer: "In a year glutted with teenage movie heroines who are either hereditary or civic royalty, First Daughter is the second presidential-child film. Is there a limit to this incessant princessitude?" |
