What a Girl Wants (2003)
Genre: Adventure / Comedy
Duration: 105 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Dennie Gordon
Stars: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth and Kelly Preston
IMDb score:
5,8 (70.914)
Releasedate: 27 March 2003
What a Girl Wants plot
"Trying to fit in. Born to stand out."
Teenager Daphne travels from New York to England in search of her father. He does not know that he has a child with his American girlfriend whom he met while he was working in Morocco. While Daphne tries to get to know her father, she has to adjust to the new social rules she has to deal with.
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Actors and actresses
Daphne Reynolds
Henry Dashwood
Libby Reynolds
Jocelyn Dashwood
Glynnis Payne
Alistair Payne
Ian Wallace
Clarissa Payne
Percy
Armistead Stuart
Reviews & comments
IH88
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- 9789 messages
- 3198 votes
“No hugging, dear. I'm British. We only show affection to dogs and horses.”
Bynes and Firth are fun together, but that's one of the few positives about What a Girl Wants. Fortunately, they take up most of the screen time, keeping the movie entertaining to watch. The differences between the Americans and those stiff British are made ridiculous, but here it was sometimes painfully unfunny. The film is also too long, and even Bynes and Firth can't hide that.
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Shadowed
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- 11606 messages
- 6831 votes
without inspiration.
Despite this, Firth and Bynes still know a lot of fun here thanks to their acting skills
to make of it. It is therefore a pity that Gordon can otherwise get shockingly little creativity out of a rather creative fact.
In terms of acting, the film is good. Bynes is young and enthusiastic and knows how to carry the film. Firth sometimes chokes on his humor (mirror session in tight pants) but always has a kind of charm that always manages to work a bit here. For the rest charming British accents and that's about it.
Given is quite original, and therefore manages to offer enough room for creativity. It is therefore a pity that Gordon literally pulls out all the clichés that are possible and makes the story very predictable, so that any impact or sympathy is not easy.
For the rest it is all entertaining and fast it is certainly, but it is all too predictable and therefore not very fun to watch. You can often predict the next step and pretty much know how it will all end.
The very decent score is mainly for the enthusiasm and acting. Otherwise I think it was nice.
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mjk87 (moderator films)
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- 14824 messages
- 4654 votes
What I can appreciate in this film is that - as usual - we don't see a rapprochement between a teenage girl and her stiff daddy, but she is received lovingly by him almost immediately and he does not change because of it, but at most finds himself again. Just a little different nuance than usual. Not a world film further, it was all a bit too flat for that, visually not special and at the end a bit more of the same. Really such a movie for lazy people from the couch and nothing more. Come on, it's all pretty sweet and then rounded up 3.0*.
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