Sometimes I wonder what led me to out a movie in my queue several years ago. Did I read a good review, see a trailer, or did someone tell me about a movie? When I recently saw Constantine and hated it so much, I really wondered why I put that movie in my queue.
But almost as compensation for Constantine, here came Ice Princess (2005). Yes, it is a movie that is really aimed at tween girls...I don't quite fit the demographic. But that doesn't stop it from being a pretty good movie.
It seems to have a generic story line..really smart girl envies that popular ice skater champion girl, and tries to be like her. but while the characters start out typical, they end up being not quite so stereotypical at all.
With Michelle Trachtenberg (most famous as Dawn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and a pre-Heroes Hayden Panettiere as the girls that actually become friends and help each other, the movie gets nice support from the moms, played by Joan Cusack and Kim Cattrall.
But it is the girls that star, and they both do a very good job. Ice Princess was a nice surprise, and reminds me that most of the time, I was right 4 years ago, when I added a movie to my list.
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