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I wanted to but couldn't!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Rarely have I seen such an awful, vulgar, badly written and performed movie.It sends the wrong message, it is not OK to be vulgar and wild. I am young and I would not go out with a girl like that. Also, what kind of a mother is that, screwing everybody's life after 17 years. Totally selfish and inconsiderate. As for the guy Henry, oh, my God! bad, bad, bad.

It has always been just Daphne Reynolds (Amanda Bynes) and her mom Libby (Kelly Preston) in their tiny NY apartment above a restaurant in Chinatown. She always tells her about her father Henry Dashwood (Colin Firth) whose British aristocratic family did not approve. The 17 year old runs off to London to find his dad and possibly a missing piece in her life. He's abandoning his seat in the House of Lords to run for office. He's a rising political star and getting married to Glynnis Payne (Anna Chancellor), the daughter of his adviser Alistair Payne (Jonathan Pryce) and mother to Clarissa Payne (Christina Cole).It's a standard premise and not particularly well done. Amanda Bynes is suitably adorable and sweet. She's at her bumbling bubbly best. Colin Firth is terribly stiff and oddly weak-minded. It's a stock character that keeps him from developing real chemistry. It's a teen girl fantasy with a dud prince charming. There's even the evil 'step-mother' and 'step-sister'. It's a silly movie that doesn't really work.

Watching father/daughter dances is just another day in the life for Daphnie Reynolds. She works as a server at weddings, while her mother Libby is a wedding singer. With each blessed event in which another couple says "I do," there is another father/daughter dance, and Daphnie's heart breaks a little more, because she has never met her own dad. She knows that he is a famous public figure in England...but that's about all.The curious teenager decides to do something about this. She saves her money and when she has enough to make the trip... Well, let's just say that Lord Henry Dashwood, diplomat, running for Prime Minister, is in for a real shock. The thing is, so is Daphnie's mom Libby..."Henry, is she there??"A very sweet family comedy with a little something for everyone. Some of the comedy and storyline is a bit candy coated and far fetched...but this is easily forgiven because of Colin Firth being in the leading role, and Amanda Bynes heartwarming performance as Daphnie. We appreciate her uniqueness, and are able to root for her from beginning to end. I personally loved this film because little Amanda Bynes ("Ask Ashley" from "All That") proves that she's all grown up now, and does an amazing job! She holds her own with Colin Firth, and keeps viewer interested in her character from start to finish. A bonus for me was all the sights of England in the film...Westminster Bridge, The London Eye, the buildings of Parliament, red double decker buses. I almost felt like I was there myself.

I have noticed a genre that might be termed 'late-ish teens princess story' and until now I could not really like the ones that I have on disk. So, if the genre was widened a bit to include Trachtenberg's Ice Princess then yes, and there will be many okay stories in such a wider genre. I consider the wider genre to be too relevant, best not maimed in this way. The traditional princess story is a very ancient genre and I prefer to link this sub genre to that. * Then I obtained the two disk set of Mandy Moore's Chasing Liberty (2004) and Amanda Bynes' What A Girl Wants (2003) and this genre was suddenly different. Both of these stories stand tall. True, technically the word Princess does not fit here, but it is close enough, even though Amanda's character is only 39th in line to the throne and Mandy is only a USA style temporary princess? That is all that I need to know about either story. These are stuff that I can really like. More. What A Girl Wants breaks with tradition. Amanda is 16 playing a 17. Not a 20 playing an 18 or 15. Not an 18 playing a 15. So unusual. Director commentary: Real princesses were used as extras at the Henley scene. Detail to hope to ignore: The last of the scenes set in London. What sort of UK political party would display the flag in this way at a political meeting? This is made for an audience with USA type understandings, not UK? Unless this is a comment re UK politics? In England this is equivalent to Amanda's dad, Lord Dashwood, having been working to be elected to parliament as a member for a UK type K.K.K.? I personally consider UK politics to be askew but that does not feel like the right parallel, though it does hint at too far to the right. With the possible exception of Hairspray, all the Amanda that I have, so far, end in disaster if I interpret them literally from the cues that I notice. That is likely just me, a private language sort of thing. For me, the most subtle is the ending of She's The Man and that is only a box of Gouda that has me wondering if that magnificent story really ends in disaster. I get that by considering a 1980's horror story called ET. For me, the ultimate Amanda scary ending is Love Wrecked.