We are experiencing a thrilling adventure through a new experience of a film director trying to take on a strong task. That story began where the teenage director Nancy Drew accompanied her father on a business trip to Los Angeles. Perhaps it will be more dangerous as Nancy stumbles on evidence of a long-unresolved crime involving the mysterious death of a movie star.
Once the rote mystery elements take over, the film devolves into a second-rate whodunit for kids, but even then, Roberts' irrepressible cheeriness and curiosity in the face of danger proves too adorable to resist.
Aisle Seat
March 05, 2008
For adults, there are some pleasures to be found here and there, but parents won't be blown away by it the way their daughters will.
There's something very weird about Andrew Fleming's movie, perhaps because it's essentially The Black Dahlia for tweens, with kissing but without the sex or mutilation.
