Greenes
Please don't spend money on this.
Limerculer
A waste of 90 minutes of my life
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Humaira Grant
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Rainey Dawn
The movie might be good to some people - in-fact I know it is. But for me trying to sit through this movie is like sitting in a dentist chair - nerve-racking! I'm easily irritated buy a bunch of teens on screen trying to pull off comedy - it's just me and my taste-buds I know.I've never been a fan of the Nancy Drew books and I'm not a fan of the films - the films are worse for me because now I see and hear the teens. Nothing personal towards the publisher Edward Stratemeyer nor the many writers under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew is just not my style.IF you are a fan of the books then I do recommend the films! I'm sure you will enjoy them! They are family style / kid friendly stories.2/10
utgard14
Second in the Nancy Drew series starring the adorable Bonita Granville. It's also my personal favorite. This time Nancy's working on the school newspaper. She and the other kids are given the opportunity to write stories for the big city paper, but the paper's grumpy editor gives them all fluff assignments. This doesn't sit well with Nancy, who decides to cover a woman's murder trial. This leads to her trying to prove the woman's innocence.Another enjoyable entry in the series, with solid work from Granville as the spunky and smart girl detective. Love her great chemistry with father John Litel and sidekick Frankie Thomas. Thomas is great and has some of the movie's best scenes. Mary Lee and Dickie "Pinocchio" Jones are fun as a couple of bratty kids who team up with Granville and Thomas for a musical number. Look fast at the beginning for baby-faced Joan Leslie as one of Nancy's classmates. This is the only one of the four Drew movies that's in public domain now.
mark.waltz
When an accused murderess is sentenced, high school reporter Bonita Granville steps up to the plate to follow a suspicious suspect whom she believes to be the killer and in the process gets into all sorts of trouble. Along the trail with boyfriend Frankie Thomas and a few bratty siblings, she manages to outwit the law. Little Mary Lee steals the scenery when she all of a sudden breaks into song after the gang can't pay the bill in Willie Fung's Chinese restaurant. Washy dishy!, Fung hollers repeatedly after Granville announces that they don't have the 65 cents. The riotous conclusion involves a man in drag. At 70 minutes, the film is no drag, but it ain't a bucket of intelligence either. Love the kid with the Donald Duck voice, though!
classicsoncall
It would be too easy to pick this story apart for it's lack of credibility, but that would be a disservice to all the young fans of the Nancy Drew series of books and films that continue to entertain to the present day. The best thing to do with this one is watch it with a few kids and get their reaction to the on screen hi-jinks between Nancy (Bonita Granville) and her put upon pal Ted Nickerson (Frankie Thomas). Nancy's pretty slick actually, the way she filched the newspaper assignment and how she managed to con her way into and out of the scrapes she found herself in.There were a few things that had me going 'Huh?' though, like did the door man at the gym REALLY charge them ten cents to get in? The other head scratcher was the lettering on the office door of the River Heights Tribune - what exactly is a 'Newspaper Morgue'?
