QueerVamp20 This movie wasn't super popular when it came out. But the same young girl who played Harriet The Spy is more grown up in this movie about following your dreams but not allowing it to hurt other people - Young Casey is a high school student who has to work on a project for her entry for a scholarship to Harvard - She is a science-geek - She decides to analyze figure skating and see if there is a scientific formula to do it well - and for Casey she does it Very Well!!! - I don't want to give a lot away because this is one of those movies where you just have to watch it - I have watched it over 30 times - It is one of my favorites - If you like movies with talent, heart, and goal achievements along with a bit of geek to chic - You will skate your way to the top with Casey in Ice Princess!!!

SnoopyStyle Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg) is a gifted science nerd. Her teacher asks her to do a science project to get a scholarship. Her serious mother Joan (Joan Cusack) is set for her to go to Harvard. Meanwhile popular girl Gen Harwood (Hayden Panettiere) is training to be a world class figure skater under her demanding mother/coach Tina (Kim Cattrall). When Casey starts to learn figure skating, she turns out to be a natural.It's a little bit unbelievable that the girl becomes a great skater so quickly. At least Trachtenberg can highlight her skating and comedic abilities in this movie. However if you dig a little deeper into this standard Disney fare, there is a good movie about mother-daughter relationships. That's the heart of the movie, and what separates from the other cheesy teen movies. The adult characters are allowed to be real. The two girls are more than two-dimensional high school stereotypes.

dy158 Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg) has always been an ordinary teenager leading an ordinary life with her mother Joan (Joan Cusack). But at the same time, she is also a bookworm and a physics geek. Being selected to pursue a scholarship at Harvard, she must present a personal summer project at physics. It was after she watched a figure skating competition with her math geek friend Ann (Amy Stewart), Casey figured that ice skating would make a perfect project for her scholarship, which had been her favourite childhood hobby whenever she is doing it on the pond outside her house.Casey initially had a nasty awakening at the local skating rink, managed by former disgraced skater Tina Harwood (Kim Cattrall). She had unexpectedly gate-crashed a skating practice session, with the sole intention of simply only watching the skaters at the local rink to do her summer project. After just initially watching the skaters, she decides to try to improve her own skating abilities by applying the physics and what she discovered from watching other skaters and join the local skating rink. She becomes a proficient skater, skipping two levels to become a junior skater in the process. She also helps out the fellow skaters at the local rink in Tina's daughter Gennifer (Hayden Panettiere), Tiffany (Jocelyn Lai) and Nikki (Kirsten Olson) in their skating.Unsure of what she wants, Casey juggled between her studies, skating, taking a job at a food stand at the local skating rink to pay for the skating lessons. When it began to catch up on her, her mother Joan tells her to stop skating but she refuses. At the same time, there was also tension between Tina and her daughter Gennifer over the regime Tina is putting on her daughter's skating schedule and her personal life. And it came to a head at a skating competition where relations hit a new low between Tina and Gennifer over Tina buying a new pair of skating boots for Casey.It might have been a Disney film, but it does not steer towards the stereotypes. Kim Cattrall's Tina character may have been flawed which stretched back to her own days of being a skater, but she became the unexpected voice of conscience for Casey. But at the same time, it also examines Tina's relations with her daughter Gennifer and between Casey and her mother Joan in terms of what both Gennifer and Casey really want for their respective lives. It is something families can relate to, for those having children at crossroads in terms of their life decisions.It stands out for me in terms of when Michelle Trachtenberg's character of Casey was doing the figure skating, me at times almost imagine that she was actually a real figure skater. Not only that, there is also the stardust of former real-life American skater Michelle Kwan, who acts as a commentator in the film, which makes this film pleasantly appealing.

Angelus2 Ice Princess is very charming in its own little way.It tells of a geeky girl who decides to give figure skating a go and fall sin love with the sport.Michelle is convincing as the bookish girl and Kim Catrall is great as the ambitious mother trying to make her daughter strive for gold.The movie is a common formula used by Hollywood with the underdog trying to make a name but the movie has its own little take on this formula; paying more attention on the mother and daughter relationships.All in all a good movie.