Python Hyena Nancy Drew (2007): Dir: Andrew Fleming / Cast: Emma Roberts, Josh Flitter, Rachel Leigh Cook, Tate Donovan, Max Thieriot: Based on the famed detective series of books featuring the title character. This teen comedy employs adult elements such as murder, single mothers, and Hollywood politics. Director Andrew Fleming succeeds in creating scenery that fans of the novels will appreciate but this is not the intelligent delivery he used in his earlier teen detective comedy, Dick, which is a better showcasing of his talent. Typical setup results in teenage Drew solving a case involving a murdered actress. Structure plays out well with clever clues before dumbing down in its third act. Emma Roberts plays off the innocence of a girl comfortably out of her element but the role is totally unbelievable. One particular bad sequence has her escape from the clutches of a couple idiotic thugs who failed to take reasonable precautions in subduing her. Josh Flitter is standard issue partner in crime. Rachel Leigh Cook has a pivotal role but all too brief up to a point. Tate Donovan as Drew's father is flat. Films such as this are difficult to visualize due to its presentation to its audience. Max Thieriot plays the standard boyfriend who has the personality of sheetrock. In this case it fails in translating the popular teen novels to the silver screen, opting instead for implausibility and idiocy. Score: 4 / 10

Alexandra Logan I really was hoping they'd nail the movie this time around.Is this a disappointment? Yes. While most peeps want the directors to follow the book more closely I was hoping they'd break free like the ones staring Bonita Granville back in the 30's. The truth is,Ms. Drew from the books is perfect and it works for her too. But on screen, especially since this one is UPDATED,they might have wanted to do something more with her character.We find Nancy her usual sunshine-y self. She stands out among SPOILER SPOILER her peers not only because she's smart and polite but she looks like she just came from out a time machine. Her father, once so proud of her sleuthing, wants her to become a "NORMAL" teenager (yeah, he's a jerk). There are two new girls in this one, supposedly modern day teens who pick on Nancy and by the end kinda become her friends. Bess and George are removed and Corky is added. Strangely enough, I didn't mind him...who I did mind however was (the insecure)Ned. There was well, no reason for him to be there-just to provide a person to kiss the heroine at the end.Bottom line: Fans of Nancy Drew- you're probably not going to like this one, especially if Nancy's perfect demeanor annoyed you in the book. Go expecting rubbish-that's the only way you'll enjoy this.Non Nancy Drew Fans- If you're a teenager with time on her hands and nothing in your head. This is one for you! Beware though, Peeps who might want to try the books after seeing this movie: the books are nothing like this.The poor Carolyn Keene's (I say Keene's because several of people under the name Carolyn Keene wrote them) are probably turning in their graves.Psst! If you want a Nancy Drew that you can enjoy, check out the black and white ones from the late 30's! But be warned, Nancy is nothing like she is in the books. And all the better

windtar this movie was so childish.watch the old 1940's nancy drew movies, they are much much much better.the girl in the movie looks and acts like she's 13. nothing she does is believable.they took a series of good mystery books and turned it into a movie for 10 year olds who probably never even read her books.this movie was a insult to the nancy drew series.they need to make nancy like 19-21, and have more serious stuff.watch it if its free, and nothing else on.i rate it a 3 on a stink-a-roo meter

Elswet I grew up on Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and the Three Investigators book series. I was experiencing trepidation about this film anyway, but the character has undergone a whole and complete transformation and now she's a dogless Penny of Inspector Gadget fame. Nancy Drew was an investigator of mysterious circumstances, not a gadget laden, pint sized super hero.Okay, I liked this movie, but like Roland Emmerich's Godzilla, it shouldn't have been a namesake movie. As a great kid's movie empowering young ladies with the desire to become more intelligent and capable, this is a fantastic step. BUT...as a Nancy Drew movie, I can't endorse this endeavor. Nancy Drew was NOT Ned's Super Ex-Girlfriend, she was a kid; an intelligent beyond belief kid, yes...but a kid not Wonder Woman in a training bra.It's great, but not as a Nancy Drew movie. Oddly though...I hope they do make another one. I enjoyed it.It rates a 6.2/10 from...the Fiend :.