 Disney's Ice Princess , starring Michelle Trachtenberg, who played Dawn on Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, appears to be aimed squarely at the niche audience referred to as female "tweens." But, as Gene Seymour in Newsday observes, "Teenage girls need solid, uplifting sports movies as much as boys do." Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times observes that despite formulaic and cliché-ridden, scenes, "somehow the film started to get to me, and I was surprised how entertained I was. Like Shall We Dance? or Saturday Night Fever, it escapes its genre." Claudia Puig in USA Today also praises the movie for being "subtly inspiring, focusing not on mean girls but instead on girls getting along and helping one another accomplish their goals." But Kyle Smith of the New York Post is not impressed. "This movie wasn't just made for 11-year-old girls; it seems to have been made by 11-year-old girls," he writes. And Evan Henerson in the Los Angeles Daily News dismisses the film as "a safe, edgeless cinematic after-school special." |
