Popcorn and a Movie

February 21, 2006 - In the Library

I picked out the movie Ice Princess (G) to watch in February, because it was a new movie that several teens had expressed interest in. The ice skating in the movie also tied in nicely with the Winter Olympics.

In Ice Princess Casey, a high-school bookworm, uses her physics project to help her and her friends calculate how to properly execute jumps. Casey improves her skating skills to the point that she has a chance to compete in the National competition and her physics project attracts the attention of Harvard's Admissions Office, but she can't be a competitive ice skater while juggling a college career. Casey has to choose between attending Harvard and pursuing competitive ice-skating.

This movie is rated G, so I didn't worry about it too much, and I didn't watch it before hand, which is always a mistake. There was some serious betrayal and backstabbing, not by another teen, but by a parent. The movie had a theme of the importance of good sportsmanship and also that sometimes parents will go to any length to ensure their child wins. I found that part of the movie disturbing and didn't like it as much as I thought I would. All of the five teenage girls who came to this program liked the movie and many came even though they had already seen the movie.