To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, it is rather sad that Garry Marshall would end up a rather solid career with such a tedious trilogy around some holiday themed romantic-comedies and this movie was basically the weakest of the bunch. Indeed, right from the very first scene, you had a voice-over telling you how hard and exhausting it is to be a mother which must be one of the most annoying gimmicks in Hollywood comedies. On top of that, it is not even accurate. Seriously, if you would go back 60 or 70 years ago, mothers used to have 5 or 6 kids or even more but if you would believe these movies, to have 1 or 2 is apparently already a terrible and impossible ordeal. Anyway, as usual, the whole thing was just a bunch of terribly generic and predictable little stories and it was just rather boring from the beginning until the end. I mean, if they would take one of these stories and only focused on it, it might have worked better but even so, I'm not so sure. For example, Margo Martindale and Robert Pine basically played some hardcore Donald Trump fans and there was something interesting about how their daughters (one gay, the other married with some guy with an Indian background) were trying to reconnect with them in spite of their bigotry. But, of course, like everything else, this conflict was solved within 5 minutes so it was still terribly underwhelming. Anyway, to conclude, even though the damned thing was harmless, it was still a waste of time and I don't think it is really worth a look. 

I wasn't sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Emma Roberts, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, first of all, I have to admit that I never read a 'Nancy Drew' book when I was a kid so I was probably not the targeted audience. Still, it was fairly easy to understand what these Nancy Drew tales were supposed to be about and, in my opinion, Emma Roberts turned out to be a great choice to play the main character. Indeed, not only she totally looked the part but I thought she was quite convincing. Unfortunately, she was pretty much the only thing that I really worked in this movie. I mean, the murder mystery was nothing original but it was not bad but the biggest issue was with the time period. Indeed, even though Nancy Drew obviously belonged to the 50's, for some reasons, the makers felt that they chose to move her to a more contemporary time frame but that didn't work at all. I mean, basically, Nancy dressed and acted as if she was still living in the 50's while there was around her some modern cars, computers, cellphones,... It felt just jarring as as if she had been stuck in a time bubble, unaware of what was going on in the rest of the world. As a result, it made her look like an ignorant small town girl when she was supposed to be the exact opposite, actually really smart and clever. Anyway, even tough the damned thing was supposed to be rather harmless, I thought it was really weak and I don't think it is really worth a look.