Merolliv
I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
Jakemcclake
I try to catch the ending of this movie whenever it comes on TV or Cable. That is because it has an exhilarating ending that combines with fantastic music which gives the movie an almost a "Rocky" like feel. Hayden Panetier and Kim Catral give good realistic performances that really brought this story to life, despite the fact that it may have a little bit of a corny concept to it.That said the movie sends the message that it is better for some people to ice skate than to go to College, and I do not know if that is a real good message to send. But it also shows that someone follows their own dream to their happiness. Furthermore, the movie has one surprizing twist that let me know this was not the usual Disney fluff.It starts a little slow, but it really takes off, like no other Disney movie.
Leena Franklin
So Casey Carlyle thinks she knows a lot of physics, eh? Well baby... wake up and smell the hydrogen sulphide of newton's ass...because his belly just jerked when she made a statement that grossly violated the fundamental law of rotational physics. Recollect the time she video documented herself in the skating rink for the first time, hmmmmm... She said "When I tuck my arms in, the Moment of Inertia increases and I am able to spin faster". Hello!!! any physics student in the house? Tucking the arms in actually decreases the moment of inertia by virtue of which the angular speed increases thereby maintaining the angular momentum. What a poser, a disgrace to all physics lovers.Who knows how many such blunders she would have made. She is just lucky that all are not geeks.
Terryfan
It's hard to find a movie that ain't got all that is in movies today.And might I add that Ice Princess is a wonderful movie from Disney.The movie was made with nothing but heart.I have nothing bad to say about Ice Princess because it's just a fun and enjoyable movie to watch.It's not violent nor a lot of words that would be wrong to say in a film.The music is very beautiful too. A nice collection of music if I might say.You have a nice cast with some new stars.Ice Princess is just one of the best movies to ever come out.I kind of wish I saw it at the movies.Overall if you want a movie that good and fresh, then Ice Princess is the movie for you.I give Ice Princess 8 out of 10 A wonderful movie is Ice Princess
annevejb
Updated and redone at April 2008This is a nice fantasy story, one that can benefit from repeated viewing. I can accept and enjoy it as just that, but would I really prefer that it was closer to reality? The spoilers relate to that. Step one for getting that conclusion was to obtain my DVD and just watch it a few times, for sheer fun. The commentary too, and with my DVD that is by The Tract Berg and Hayden-Here Blond and Kirsten-Nikki Shrimp and Trevor-Teddy Of The Tract. * What stood out for me straight away was that the science is low quality fantasy. I assume that basic skating manuals will cover the skating points in a qualitative way. I vaguely remember part of it being used as illustrations in school level physics when I did that, 1960's UK. There is a more important point there, though. Once a visiting Teacher Ed student mentioned a science project he had done about Yams, he was from Africa and in England to qualify as a teacher. Me I froze up, how does one go about choosing a class project, how does one organise it, etc. In Ice Princess, The Tract Berg is expected to choose a project, an individual project. Worst, an original project. Worst, one that shows individuality. At first this told me that the writers do not know anything about school physics and the kids who are into that. I could be wrong as I am hopelessly out of date re how things are now, but this film seemed by an arts orientated type looking to what they might call nerd worlds and assuming that the rules of art worlds apply, how things are done from year dot there? If they are insane then okay, they have a reasonable excuse. I assume that nerd = geek, my dictionary translates these as 'fool', I translate them as 'technical type'. What for me is an interesting question, how does a school kid go about tooling up to be able to chose a science project for themselves and carry it out in a useful way. I assume that the education gap in school physics is likely to have been filled by now. I do not ask how on earth does a school kid choose an original research project for themselves. But individuality? This big Disney project looks at the realities of school science kids and seems to impose art studies qualities and values and realities, disenfranchising science kids from their reality? Disney takes pride in being in touch with arts kids' dreams? * The commentary shows me that the same thing is true re sports issues. This takes a serious sports theme. I had not previously considered ice skating as properly sport, despite having once watched it on televised Olympics in 1972. The commentary helps me to view it differently and also shows how the storytelling has churned up that world's realities in favour of a pretty arty substitute that is nothing like the sport. At least it gives the commentary. * From a different angle, this is a story about someone who was once rather effective in school level technical stuff. She had been encouraged at home to develop her maths skills, her physics skills too, from an early age. She also has somewhere for enjoying ice skating basics. So far I can relate to some of that. I interpret her as being channelled to be an embryonic geek, but one in big trouble from an early age. Not that her style shows it. The ice skating practice will be part of what softens the scene. She has potential for growing to become an effective technical type. Mad Hot Ballroom, a documentary, can be read as identifying ballroom dancing as an additional skill with potential for developing balanced individuals. Ice skating and classical music seem good as symbols, as a bit more too, just not as basic. Transgender? Her bookshelves should be more impressive than shown. Her world falls apart by her being given notice, in unreal terms, about a potential windfall, while her physics teacher is making toast in an arts orientated classroom fitted with a science teacher's bench. The solid reality of her world has turned into unreality, which on the surface shows impressive results. The film lives in her dream world. Brazil 1984 + 1. I can relate to that sort of crash too. It happens at exactly the right age for this to create a sympathetic resonance in me. I do not expect the reality to be other than destructive to her and to her surroundings, one of many fresh planetary disasters. Tract refusing the peanut butter underlines this. Copper sulphate. * The roots of the story thus read as about someone starting from behind in some way, her family not having the fullness and sense that she needs, but her growing to blossom as a technical type or as an athlete or as both or to fail in both. She will fail in both. We are shown a fantasy, it is shown through rose tinted glasses, its reality for 17ish who get there is very different. The actor commentary appears to say that empowerment is relevant. I accept that would be an essential component of any solution. To attain realistic ways she would need expert help and some get the sort of help that sends them in totally the wrong direction, a component of social disease formation. Whatever, I find this to be close to the level of Lindsay's Mean Girls, unusually worthwhile. I find it interesting to compare this with Lindsay's Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen, which I read as relating to someone facing a similar teen hurdle.
