Ice Princess (2005)

So much average

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I just added this movie to my DVD collection maybe like a month ago or so and I have watched it at least a dozen times, most likely more than that though! I am not embarrassed to admit that I am a guy and I absolutely love this movie! I do not care at all if this movie is considered to be a chick flick or not. Besides, I love those types of movies. I do agree that there are some corny/cheesy moments and dialogue, but I do not let those ruin the movie for me. They're all very minor and to me they don't affect it at all. The story is brilliantly written, even though the ending is very predictable (for the most part). The acting is pretty solid as well, especially from Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall, and of course the lovely and very talented Michelle Trachtenberg! The music is just...excellent! I cannot say that enough. I love the music in the movie so much because it just works and fits in with every scene where there is some. I believe that the movie carries a good message as well. It's just saying that YOU decide what you want to do with your life and it encourages you to follow your dreams, no matter what other people say. Even if it's your parents, let them see you for who you are and what you want to do, not what they want you to do. If you have not seen this movie yet, I strongly suggest that you go out and buy yourself a copy of it today! It is a great family movie that everyone will enjoy, especially since there are absolutely no bad parts in it anywhere. Watch this movie for yourself and you will totally understand why this is a must-own for any DVD collection! And just remember, "One more thing: skate with your heart."

I just cant tell you how good this movie is! This movie was so inspirational and awesome! She goes out there and skates like she REALLY MEANS IT! Not only to prove to herself, but to her entire community on how bad she really wants it! I don't think I've cried this hard since the last time my Woodchuck ran out! Yeah I'm a guy, but who cares! I am proud to say I love this movie and will defend it to the day I die! Definitely my favorite movie of all time! This is a must for the ladies, and a must for the guys that swing the same way as me as well! ;) ENJOY!!! ANYONE ELSE THAT LOVES THIS MOVIE AS MUCH AS ME PLEASE EMAIL ME WITH ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE! My name is John Witt and you can email me at [email protected] Thanks and God bless!

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.

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.