In her sassy but scrubbed way, Bynes is a real charmer, and What a Girl Wants is a likable throwaway.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
There's nothing wrong with fairy tales, but they don't have to be formulaic. A movie like this would have benefited from a blending of the fanciful and the inventive.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dave Kehr
Minnelli's comedy had its serious underpinnings: by the end of the film, a girl had become a woman. By the end of Ms. Gordon's film, the girl is still a girl, but a girl with much cooler stuff, including a stately home, a butler and a cute British boyfriend.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
Works well enough. It has a decided plus in its appealing young star, Amanda Bynes, last seen opposite Frankie Muniz in "Big Fat Liar."Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Janice Page
It's not that What a Girl Wants is dreadful; it's merely slapdash, wildly inconsistent in
tone and style, and mind-numbingly predictable in character and plot.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The movie is clearly intended for girls between the ages of 9 and 15, and for the more civilized of their brothers, and isn't of much use to anyone else.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
It's slick girlie stuff, but the cast makes it go down easy.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Karen Heller
Designed as the ideal confection to attract a young girl or teen, What a Girl Wants will more likely hook their mothers.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Anya Kamenetz
A culture-shock/daddy-meets-girl romantic comedy, WAGW is a sanitized adventure for the Mary Kate-and-Ashley set.Read Full Review »
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