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1. Rogue-32 says:

   February 6, 2012 at 9:00 pm

   "What a Girl Wants" is a re-tooling/re-telling of William Douglas Home’s
   "The Reluctant Debutante" with the devastatingly charming Amanda Bynes in
   the title role; in fact ‘charming’ is the operative word here -everything
   about the movie is charming, and charmed.The casting: impeccably superb. Amanda never hits a false note throughout
   the proceedings, creating a character who is genuinely believable, lovable
   and worth cheering for (there was a LOT of clapping in the theatre at
   various points in the film – I clapped AND whistled, myself); Kelly Preston
   is radiant as Daphne’s mother Libby, a musician who still deeply loves
   Henry, Daphne’s father, but has gone on with her life, and Colin Firth (as
   Daphne’s father, Henry Dashwood) is a revelation here, in that he literally
   becomes more and more attractive as the tale unfolds – as he becomes more
   and more who he really is underneath his repressed exterior (the scene where
   he dons his black leather pants and prances in front of the mirror to the
   horror of his prim prude of a fiancee is priceless), and Oliver James as
   musician Ian, Daphne’s love interest, makes a memorable splash here as well.
   Everyone else is perfect in their roles too (even the dog rocks).
   The screenplay and direction: completely on the mark. Never gets
   heavy-handed, contrived, mean-spirited, cloying or tedious, believe it or
   not. The charm is sustained throughout in a dazzling balance of comedy,
   heartfelt emotion, conflict and growth, culminating in one of the most
   satisfying resolutions I’ve experienced in a movie in a long
   time.Occasionally, a movie can have predictable elements without that being a bad
   thing; sometimes predictable elements can be pleasurable — you realize
   what’s going to happen but you also realize you’re in such capable hands
   that you actually anticipate the playing-out of the scenes you know will
   occur. Sometimes it’s not WHAT is done in a movie but HOW it’s achieved,
   and WHO is doing the achieving.

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