
A high-school bookworm transforms into a swan. Brainy Casey Carlyle has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother, who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen--three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing on the US National circuit (and have attitudes to match). But when Casey gets the chance to train with Gen and her coach, a disgraced fo... (Full plot summary below)
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A high-school bookworm transforms into a swan. Brainy Casey Carlyle has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother, who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen--three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing on the US National circuit (and have attitudes to match). But when Casey gets the chance to train with Gen and her coach, a disgraced former skating champion who also happens to be Gen's mother, she must dash her own mother's hopes in order to pursue her dream. Now, with only the support of Gen's teenage brother, a hunky Zamboni driver, Casey takes on the challenge of her life when she finds herself competing against the best to make it into the championship circuit and become a real "ice princess.
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| Detroit NewsTom LongAll the parents in Ice Princess are pushy. Pushy-pushy-pushy. All the teens are squeaky clean. Squeaky-squeaky-squeaky. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyThis dumb-as-a-stump teen girl coming-of-age movie envisions a high school physics geek (Michelle Trachtenberg) who turns into an ice skating pro as a result of her knowledge of physics. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenThough formulaic, this one has dazzling exhibitions of ice skating with characters who are neither all good nor all bad. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerEllen KimWe get that the heroine is geeky (laying groundwork for the duck-to-swan transformation), but must she babble physics formulas at parties? |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura Clifford...may have a preposterous premise, but it should appeal to the same mother/daughter audience that flocked to the similarly titled "Diaries." |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumPeculiarly coy feminine-empowerment fable. |
| Bangor Daily News (Maine)Christopher SmithPure formula, but nevertheless an enjoyable triple klutz. |
| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffDeals with a surprising number of complexities for a G-rated film. Even if doesn't address all of them satisfactorily, the attempt lifts the film's scores for artistic merit. |
| Film Freak CentralBill ChambersIt's not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but neither is it a sustenance-free afternoon at the Ice Capades |
| SPLICEDWireRob BlackwelderThe delight of Ice Princess is that there's more to every character than meets the eye. |