Ice Princess

Michelle Trachtenberg is a talented and cute-as-heck actress, and the prospects of her starring as an aspiring figure skater seem enticing. While Ice Princess occasionally soars behind her star power, a hack script acts like a steel baton to the knee, knocking it down to the cold ice with a resounding thud. No doubt, Trachtenberg worked her butt off for this film. Many of her moments on the ice are actually her (although a body double performs the difficult jumps and spins), and there’s an impressive commitment in her performance. Unfortunately, Ice Princess (a terrible name for a movie) is done in by gooey Disney stuff. This is not some sort of realistic study of a young woman pursuing her dream. It’s a hokey exercise taking a few too many cues from Tonya Harding, actually giving the sport a bad name.