Nancy Girl

No, no.  Not that one. The one of the Drew persuasion. I’m referring of course to everyone’s second favorite girl sleuth (number two to Trixie Belden, of course).  Today we’re playing a little point counterpoint with the release of Nancy’s new movie. In the one corner we’ve Sandhya Nankani who entered the film with skepticism and ending up liking it (it’s the June 15th post). In the other, the New York Times review, that says that Ms. Roberts portrayed the role, "with more pluck than brilliance" and that the film "corrupts the clean, functional, grown-up style of the books with the kind of cute, pseudo-smart self-consciousness that has sadly become the default setting for contemporary juvenile popular culture produced by insecure, immature adults." Mmm. That’s A.O. Scott ah-talking there. What I’ve noticed from both reviews is that there’s no mention of Bess and George. Am I the only one who was hoping against hope that they’d have made the cut? Why include Ned anyway? I want boyish George and plump Bess, dammit!