I like to read thing like this: (from rottentomatoes, now with 63% fresh)

"Ice Princess is carried by the subtle and shining performance of Michelle Trachtenberg."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH

Angel TheVampire | March 18, 22:28 CET

Ebert gave it a really good review as well. I don't always agree with him(The Grudge, for example), but the reasons he gives for liking it make me think that I won't mind going with my 11 year old daughter to see it.

Biff Turkle | March 18, 23:11 CET

The Washington Post also gave it a good review.

phlebotinin | March 18, 23:40 CET

I so agreed with Ebert when it came to The Grudge. The best part was the first two minutes of the film. Here's a rule of thumb for me: if in order to make the story interesting you HAVE to tell it out of linear sequence? That means you need to get yourself a new story.

I find I often agree with Roger Ebert on many of his reviews, and even when I disagree with him, I come away from his perspective on the film I've seen with a new understanding. He doesn't disagree with me in a way that pisses me off. I honestly believe Ebert's the best movie critic we've got, but then that's just a critical accessment.

And if Ebert says Ice Princess is a formulaic film that actually transcends its genre, like Saturday Night Fever did, then that's usually enough for me. However, reading his review further gave me a revelation no other critic or publicity crap has hinted at before. This isn't just a formulaic "coming of age" feel-good chick flick. This is a geeking out film.

"Trachtenberg plays Casey Carlyle, a brilliant high school science student, who hopes to win a Harvard scholarship with a physics project. Her teacher advises her to find an original subject, and she gets a brainstorm: What if she films figure skaters, analyzes their movements on her computer, and comes up with a set of physics equations describing what they do and suggesting how they might improve?"

Of course after the premise, the film will no doubt deteriorate later into formula, with the requisite beefcake hunk potential boyfriend who's misundertood and the requisite first kiss with the swirly annoying music, and the requisite mother who doesn't approve and blah blah blah but my point is the geekiness IS in there! This is a geek film! I am so there!

I haven't been so excited since I learned the movie Sliding Doors had an alternate reality schtick with a side order of Monty Python references. Chick flick granted, but also a geek flick. The perfect dating movie.

ZachsMind | March 19, 01:36 CET

From what I've read so far what's bothered me the most about this movie is that it seems to be bashing feminism (the blurbs seem to make Casey's mother out to be unsympathetic). Hopefully this is not the case.

Reddygirl | March 19, 08:12 CET

the blurbs seem to make Casey's mother out to be unsympathetic). Hopefully this is not the case.

Oh, come on--there must be conflict at the beginning, but you know Mom comes around in the end! Or maybe the message is that there are more kinds of feminism than the stereotype?

Maeve | March 19, 19:00 CET