What A Girl Wants DVD Review

"WHAT A GIRL WANTS" reviews

DVD

WHAT A GIRL WANTS

Author

anonymous

Date reviewed

2005-10-26 11:16:32

Provider

MRIB

DVD Review

New Yorker Daphne Reynolds (Amanda Bynes) has spent her young life hoping her English aristo father (and potential PM) Lord Henry Dashwood (Firth) would come to find her. She serves the wealthy at society weddings and looks on sadly as fathers and daughters take to the floor to dance to her own mother (Kelly Preston) and band give them a tune to waltz to.

Daphne thinks Lord Dashwood gave up her mother, the wife he met in his wild and free days. Henry thinks that Daphne's mother met someone else and fled and is unaware that Daphne even exists. So what else is a young girl to do but hop on a flight and come see the Dad she's never known?

Chock-a-block of frightfully English stereotypes and chinless wonders, it could be all too easy to hate What A Girl Wants. but it's actually got a certain amount of charm.

There's also a host of British talent on show including Anna Chancellor as Daphne's would-be stepmother and Jonathan Pryce as Henry's dastardly advisor.

Copyright © MRIB 2005.

DVD

WHAT A GIRL WANTS

Author

anonymous

Date reviewed

2005-10-26 11:16:32

Provider

MRIB

DVD Review

New Yorker Daphne Reynolds (Amanda Bynes) has spent her young life hoping her English aristo father (and potential PM) Lord Henry Dashwood (Firth) would come find her. While she serves the wealthy at society weddings, Daphne looks on sadly as the fathers and daughters take to the floor to dance while her own mother (Kelly Preston) and her band give them a tune to waltz to.

Daphne thinks Henry gave up on the wife he met in his wild and free days while Henry thinks that Daphne's mother met someone else and fled, unaware that Daphne even exists. So what else is a young girl to do but hop on a flight and come see the Dad she's never known?

Chock-a-block of frightfully English stereotypes and chinless wonders, it could be all too easy to hate What A Girl Wants. but it's actually got a certain amount of charm.

There's also a host of British talent on show including Anna Chancellor as Daphne's would-be stepmother and Jonathan Pryce as Henry's dastardly advisor.

Copyright © MRIB 2005.