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Nancy Drew
EMAILPRINTWarner Bros. Pictures

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 31 critic reviews
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Based on 21 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Crime | Drama | Family/Kids | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Andrew Fleming
Tiffany Paulsen (also story)
Mildred Wirt Benson (characters)
Directed by: Andrew Fleming
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 15, 2007
DVD: March 11, 2008
Running Time: 99 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG for mild violence, thematic elements and brief language
Starring Emma Roberts, Josh Flitter, Craig Gellis, Rich Cooper, Max Thieriot, Rachael Leigh Cook, Amy Bruckner, Tate Donovan, Barry Bostwick, and Kay Panabaker
For generations of fans worldwide, the name Nancy Drew is synonymous with adventure. This young amateur detective has a mind of her own, a passion for solving mysteries and a reputation foe getting into - and out of - some very scary situations. This summer, Nancy Drew moves to the West Coast and enrolls in Hollywood High, where she is faced with a fresh set of challenges and her most baffling case yet. (Warner Bros.)
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What The Critics Said
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Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan
Parents who want smart, harmless movies that don't condescend for their school-age kids -- a rare thing these days -- should be grateful for Nancy Drew.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
A very clever update of the 16-year-old heroine, managing to make her seem both as square as the Bobbsey Twins and as contemporary as MySpace.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
What's not to like about a girl detective who is a good citizen and better student, a leader rather than a follower, a resourceful seamstress who won't cut her clothes to fit this year's fashions?
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
The movie's refusal to treat young girls like silly tramps-in-training is almost radical: It's just good, clean fun and actually offers children of a certain age a role model even adults can feel good about.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
Hopefully, the girls who see Nancy Drew this summer will take their cues from the smart, engaged, intellectually curious character Roberts so charmingly portrays.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
The postmodernist evocations of the past (roughly the 50s through the 80s) are a charming mishmash, delivered with wit and style.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Fleming's movie is, at the very least, a tribute to Nancy Drew's longevity -- and a valentine to all of us who, even as we strive to live in the present, just like old things.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Manages to navigate the era of cellphones and Mean Girls with retro nostalgia and wholesomeness, making it a rare girl-powered outing for tweens in an otherwise guy-centric summer.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
It's one of the few tween movies that isn't in your face; its limpness becomes appealing.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Stina Chyn
Overall, I found myself not hating the film. There's just one thing that troubles me about the way Nancy Drew is depicted. She is determined, a perfectionist, uber-organized, and efficient. Those qualities can be associated to geekdom, but they’re also symptoms of someone with a propensity for disordered eating or obsessive-compulsive disorder. Hmmm.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Nice. The film itself is more nice than good, but nice isn't the worst trait.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
A well-written and in many ways pleasing update of a character who has endured in print for 78 years. Too bad it's sadly slow-paced.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The culprit, I'd say, is the uninteresting casting of Miss Roberts in the title role. She's a pleasant enough performer, but her made-for-teen-TV acting style, a perky blandness, doesn't supply a clue as to the appeal of Nancy Drew after all these years.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
The movie's fodder for tweener girls with indiscriminate Nick TV addictions, but there's just enough wit on display to make you realize it could have been worse.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
The mystery of Nancy Drew' is how a movie can get so many things right -- particularly the inspired casting of Emma Roberts as the spunky teenage sleuth -- yet ultimately disappoint.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
The teen parties and sidekick silliness are time filler, and not very good filler either -- why even Bruce Willis shows up in a scene that has nothing to do with the story.
Read Full Review >USA Today Scott Bowles
Nancy Drew is 16, dresses like she's 12 and acts like she's about 45. And therein lies the problem with this adaptation of the beloved book series. The movie can't quite decide how old it wants to be -- or who it's for.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden
The culture-clash procedural, which brings the small-town teen to big bad Hollywood, feels more perfunctory than inspired.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
This tweener goddess--a virtual Batcave of handy accessories packed in her shoulder bag--may prove too annoying for general audiences, particularly as Roberts plays her comically straight.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
An effective translation of the source material, but that's not necessarily a good thing.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Emma Roberts is squeaky-clean to a fault and so is the movie.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
As it is, Nancy Drew stands as an example of how to take a foolproof, time-tested formula -- a young detective using smarts and determination to solve a case -- and mess it up with superficial cleverness and pandering hackwork. How this happened is hardly a mystery; botched adaptations are as common as BlackBerries in Hollywood. But it is nonetheless something of a crime.
Read Full Review >Empire Kim Newman
That this is just about passable as a divorced parent’s weekend treat is down to Roberts’ charm and the timeless appeal of Nancy herself.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
No rose-colored memories can improve this tedious interpretation of the famous girl detective's adventures. Nancy Drew falls somewhere between "The Haunted Mansion" and the live-action "Scooby Doo" movies in terms of quality but is more irritating than either.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
It's marginally possible that Nancy Drew is spoofing high school adventure movies, and I almost hope so. Otherwise, it's unwatchable on every level.
Read Full Review >Premiere Chris Willard
At the end of the movie, the only mystery left unsolved is where your time and money have gone.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Call it Nancy Drew and the Case of the Confused Adaptation.
Read Full Review >Variety Lael Loewenstein
Purportedly an attempt to modernize the young detective's adventures for a new generation of tweens, the pic instead serves up stale mystery-movie cliches and overcooked red herrings in a thoroughly wooden adaptation.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
It's not really a matter of Nancy's retro look and grounding in the fundamentals of sleuthing that separates the women from the girls but, rather, this film's lack of gaiety and surprise that makes it dud for old and new generations of the books' fans.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.1 (out of 10) based on 21 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
kayleighms gave it an8:
Car chases, gunfire, bombs, and more kidnapping attempts abound, but seem out of place even in Los Angeles. Nancy is not intimidated by any of the threats – these things happen all the time in River Heights – but they are sometimes alarming, and often incongruous with the “normal” feel of the film. Emma Roberts is a clean-cut, old-fashioned-things-loving Nancy Drew; she is perfect in the role, even if she isn’t old enough to drive her iconic roadster. And the rest of the ensemble is well-cast and well-dressed (in wonderful costumes by Jeffrey Kurland), as if they, too, belonged on a movie set (expect a few cameos in that scene); the result is a glossy adaptation of the classic series written under the penname Carolyn Keene.
Jay H. gave it a6:
Emma Roberts is beginning to develop into a good actress and is well cast. The movie is more enjoyable than I would have expected. Good mystery, it's always entertaining and it draws you into the story.
Chad S. gave it a3:
The filmmaker had seven seasons of the Gilmore Girls on DVD at his disposal, which would've come in handy since "Nancy Drew" begins clumsily in a quaint small-town(a chaste one, too) that has none of the charm of Stars Hollow(the fictional setting of the now-defunct WB show). The opening scenes are godawful. "Nancy Drew" never recovers. What worked in "The Brady Bunch"(which is to contrast the wardrobe and demeanor of two disparate generations), doesn't work here. The case Nancy works on isn't interesting. Emma Roberts is defeated by a terrible script. For starters, a detonating bomb is probably not a good idea. Also not good, the sexlessness of the teens, in all places, Los Angeles, is a major distraction. Nancy probably thinks that babies arrive via stork.
Jared C. gave it a0:
Its well paced, and its very interesting, but its not the movie with the best of script.
Ken G gave it a4:
Emma Roberts is a lot better than the clumsy script.
[Anonymous] gave it a0:
I agree COMPLETELY with Alexa. Emma Roberts sucks and the movie was crap.
K McGowan gave it a5:
True to the books, but the young actress is a complete bore, as life like as a plastic barbie doll.
