Nancy Drew (Emma Roberts) is a mystery solving machine. She joins her lawyer father Carson (Tate Donovan) on a business trip to L.A. Bess (Amy Bruckner) and Georgie (Kay Panabaker) are her best friends. Ned Nickerson (Max Thieriot) is secretly in love with her. She picked an abandoned mansion with a movie star murder mystery to live in but her father makes her promise not to sleuth anymore. It's a struggle to fit into Hollywood high school and not to sleuth. Her only new friend is Corky (Josh Flitter) while Inga Veinshtein (Daniella Monet) is the mean girl. In the end, she can't stop investigating with her friends' help.This is a mishmash of lots of different things while trying to revive this old franchise. The murder mystery is very serious. There is a light Nickelodeon touch with teen star Emma Roberts. There is a good fish out of water story but I don't like the Hollywood setting. I would have liked her hometown girlfriends to get back into the movie with Ned and stay until the end. There are even an explosion, kidnapping and near-death action sequences. This movie is doing too many different things although I like some of those things.

And our little hero even looks like Daphne. And what does she do? Solve mysteries. As Nancy. And it seems it is very good, making police job in her hometown. Is a girl with a high IQ, incredibly smart, a little genius. She moves with her father in another city. Staying in a house where lived an old actress who was missing for then to be found dead and the cause is still not known. Then she goes to school where it is not seen very well, her classmates make fun of her because of old-fashioned clothes that she wears. Nancy can not help but find out what happened to Delhi and from some old movies slowly finds all sorts of clues that help find out who is the killer. Surprising was the appearance of Bruce Willis, even if only for 30 seconds and I liked when she got introduced to Nancy used his real name. The film has some flaws. Shows us how she went to school but just one day? Then he went not. I do not think it says how old is our detective so can drive a car and parade through traffic. I can not say I liked this movie but i didn't hate it either. It is to see if you want to remember the childhood, if you want to get into the minds of children. But honestly better I looked at "Bolt".

This movie has some serious deficiencies by modern standards: No sex. One kiss. A little bit of violence.Had it come out 40 years ago or so, it would be considered a classic. But in this cynical modern age--the worst aspects of which Nancy seems to reject--people are missing the ingredients that make for a successful Hollywood hit.I enjoyed the movie. It's a bit predictable, the children's acting is uneven, and the plot was a bit silly. But Emma Roberts as Nancy was outstanding. I enjoyed watching her interpret her character with such sincerity. She was witty, composed, in control, and powerful.My main regret is that they've waited so long to produce the sequel; Nancy was 16 or 17 when this movie was made, and she'll be 20 in 2011. But, Hollywood has a way with makeup and smoke and mirrors, so we may not notice too much of an age difference.

Nancy Drew is about this girl who loves to solve mysteries more than anything else. And she's pretty good at it. In her hometown, the police considers her a partner. Nancy's also into everything vintage. Her dressing code is 50s, she loves old music (vinyl only), etc. The thing is though, she has to move from her hometown to California as her dad (her mother died when Nancy was younger) found a pretty cool job there. So, she goes to California and there's a mystery and many people are involved in it and of course at the end, everything is great. Boring, huh? Nope. Because Andrew Fleming is a director who really understands how it is to be different. Having seen The Craft and Hamlet 2, I can't help but see how good he is at presenting characters who have nothing to do with the world that surrounds them. They are not cry babies, they don't try to adapt, they are not even fully aware of what's "wrong" with them. There are themselves, unpretentious and they don't even need to convince anyone that they are cool. They always manage to get by with what they got and at the end the rest of the world understands them (not always accepting them, though) .The cast of this film is also really good. Emma Roberts delivers a great performance. I can't imaging any other 16 year old girl acting so easy in those 50s clothes. Roberts looks really natural in her character. The way she walks, talks and even dances is special, but it always feels effortless. She is a very physical actress and her role in Nancy Drew, however challenging, shows someone with lots of abilities. That being said, I don't think I'll be watching Aquamarine to catch up with her stuff. Josh Flitter plays Corky, a 12 year old messed up, fat kid who likes Nancy and follows her everywhere. He is a pocket size John Belushi. I just couldn't stop laughing every time he was on screen.All in all, I really liked this one. Like the other Fleming films I've seen, it's pretty far from most comedies. It doesn't make fun of the characters in order to make us laugh. It has fun with them.