Though as a character Nancy Drew has been kicking around since 1930, the story is set in the present day, albeit with a retro look incorporated here and there. The contempt is obvious in the tag line on all the posters - 'Get a clue' - which simultaneously references another influence, Clueless.

When it sticks to faithfully-adapted characters from the original stories and the mystery at hand, Nancy Drew is moderately enjoyable but too much of the picture unimaginatively emulates other films: Legally Blonde and The Brady Bunch Movie, in scenes that severely damage the film and leave you wondering who this thing was made for. Why so radically alter long-established characters and situations in such a way that it all but insults the very audience you're trying to cater to? It's the kind of movie that leaves you wondering why it was ever made at all. Loosely adapted from the long-running series of juvenile mystery novels, Nancy Drew (2007) is predictably, depressingly pandering, a film trying much too hard to be hip to pre-teen tastes - to such a degree in fact that it approaches its subject with pained smiles bordering on contempt, hardly the right approach.

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