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"What a Girl Wants" is an amazingly entertaining movie. It has people you will love, and people you will hate. It has excitement, a great soundtrack, and great performances. It also has romance, humor, sentimentality and true MAGIC.

The leads, an absolutely outstanding Colin Firth as Henry Dashwood, is the uptight brit longing to find something to wake him out of the political career that has been shoved upon him, and bring him back to his more joyous and carefree youth. By contrast there is the long lost daughter Daphne, perfectly cast Amanda Bynes who is the perfect one to do it. Daphne is this exhuberant, sweet and fresh innocent faced girl who longs for the father she has never known as she has lived with mom Libby, also wonderful Kelly Preston. Libby and Henry had a shortlived romance that was cut short but the reprehensible advisor that watched Henry's late dads political career. Libby left Henry and found herself pregnant, but raised the baby herself. Daphne, tired of never having that father/daughter dance, decides to run away to England and meet dear old dad. Problem is, he is engaged to the advisors daughter Glynnis, an insufferable prig, and is about to gain a most snooty step daughter to boot.

Daphne arrives in England and finds a singer as a first friend, Ian Wallace. Encouraged by her new friend, she infiltrates the guarded fence to the palace and for the first time, father and daughter meet.

To sum things up, the wonderful chemistry between the two leads is sheer magic. Colin Firth has never been so wonderfully sympathetic as Lord Dashwood. You have to love him as he is so convincingly flustered over his discovery, yet thrilled too. Amanda Bynes as Daphne is wonderful and you have to root for her to win as grandma tells her "They'll be rooting for you to fail". Does Daphne win or lose her role in the heart of long lost dad Henry? You MUST watch this film and find out for yourself. No matter what your age, this film is one that will entertain, and touch your heart with characters you really do care about. This alone makes "What a Girl Wants" a true winner in every way.

Fun and adorable
Amanda Bynes is on the road to movie stardom, and she proves that with her first starring role in "What a Girl Wants," a horrendously titled, but sweet, good-natured take on the "Pygmalion" story.

Seventeen year old Daphne Reynolds (Bynes) has been raised in New York City by her mother (Kelly Preston), a professional singer. Waiting for her birth father (yummy Colin Firth) to show up during every single birthday party, she finally gets fed up and decides tto go find him herself. She packs her bags, leaves her mother a message on the answering machine, and travels to London, where daddy dearest is part of a very hoity-toity British aristocratic social circle. Once she gets there, however, it doesn't take long before her hip American lifestyle disrupts his entire life, and might ruin his chances at winning a political campaign. Can she find a balance in the relationship between her two parents, find her own piece of mind, and along the way, possibly fall in love as well? Perhaps most importantly, does she have a chance at being the Debutante of the Year? And what's a Cinderella story without the father's wicked fiancée and her evil daughter trying to keep our Yankee Eliza Doolittle down. It all makes for an entertaining tale any young girl will love.

In one of the best scenes of the film, wicked stepmother tries to ruin our young heroine's dreams, when her real mother bravely steps in. "Take your hands off my daughter," she tells the manipulative shrew before her. "You don't want to cause a scene," the shrew replies, to which mommy dearest manages a brillian comeback. "Oh honey, if you don't take your hands off my daughter, you'll get more than a scene, you'll get a Broadway musical." It's moments like this that make the predictable tale so worthwhile.

This lively little fairy tale revels in its star's funky individuality, doesn't condescend to its audience and as implausible as it may be, manages to be genuinely charming and engaging. It's not the best take on "Pygmalion," but it sure as hell is one of the most entertaining thanks in part to Byne's winning personality.

And don't forget those really, really cute clothes.

Pointless but Entertaining
If you're looking for a quality movie for people of all ages, stop now. But, if you're looking for some family-friendly fun, you've come to the right place.
"What A Girl Wants" focuses on the life of quirky NYC teenager Daphne, played by Amanda Bynes. Her job as a waitress at weddings (with her mother alongside her, playing in a wedding band) has left her longing to meet her father, whom she knows very little about. Daphne looks him up on the net and flies to England to meet him, but is distressed to discover that he knows nothing about her and has his own busy life. While trying to find out about her father, though, Daphne discovers she has a lot to learn about herself.
In short, the movie is good, clean fun. It's cute, but pointless. Fans of Bynes are guarenteed to fall in love with the film, as will pre-teen girls. They're also likely to fall for Oliver James, who is very studly as Daphne's love interest; but, if he's not your type, Colin Firth as Daphne's caring-but-emotionally-confused father is dashing, as always. Bynes does a great job, too, adding comedy to this sticky-sweet film and keeping it from being tooo melodramatic and soap opera-ish.
Overall, "What A Girl Wants" delivers. That is, if you're looking for a popcorn-and-gummy-bears-slumber-party-chick-flick.