Okay...I guess
Added 3/12/2009
I rented this and watched it this afternoon with my seven year old daughter who's very into the mystery girl power type movies so I figured this would be right up her alley. While watching it I couldn't help but think that Roxy although very cute was completely obnoxious and a total brat. I guess they were going for the same old stuff you see in almost all of these movies where the girl star is an obnoxious brat which apparently these days is supposed to depict a strong girl. Well in my opinion a brat is a brat no matter how you look at it and by the way I'm not some old person either I'm a 29 year old Mom (well getting old ;))
Anyhow the story here was basically nonexistant at best. I kept waiting for something to happen and asking myself what the heck was going on. Can anyone tell me what the deal was with the kid who lived with them who missed his parents? Where where they and why was he there with them? Very, very confusing to say the least and weird too! Once you got to the actual meat of the story if you want to call it that it was very easy to figure out who did it, even my seven year old new right away.
When this movie was over I was suprised my daughter had made it to the end since I found it so boring but she suprised me by saying she liked it! So this is the reason I gave it three stars, I guess it did what it was supposed to for it's target audience, young girls. For me though there is much more entertaining stuff out there I'd rather have her watch. Right off hand I can think of the American girl movies. These show strong girls with good values without sending the message that you have to be a brat to be strong. Yes they are a bit sickening sweet but most of this genre is. So I guess go into this expecting an annoying title character and a very very thin storyline.
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