Nancy Drew: C

If I were a 10-year-old, this movie would have made teen sleuth Nancy Drew my hero. I would have purchased copies of BOP magazine, plastered her face all over my room and started looking for mysteries. However, I am not 10.\nThough tween audiences will love this Hollywood take on the book series, adults might have trouble swallowing the inexplicable anachronism of Nancy, a teenager perpetually stuck in the '50s even though it's clearly 2007. When Nancy moves to L.A. with her dad, I was hoping she would put on modern clothes and make friends. But when she enters her new high school full of Ugg-wearing, text messaging Valley Girls, director Andrew Fleming tries to make them into the joke. However, as Nancy sits in the cafeteria alone, homemade goodies from a tin lunchbox on top of the table and penny loafers below, one has to wonder who the joke really is on.\nShe does find a friend and sidekick in 12-year-old Corky -- played by Andy Milonakis look-alike Josh Flitter -- who tags along as she solves the case of Dehlia Draycott, an actress who was murdered in Nancy's house. Flitter gets most of the laughs and outshines actress Emma Roberts as the more likeable, precocious character.\nThere are plenty of elements to make this movie tolerable to adults -- a Bruce Willis cameo and '50s references the kids won't get -- but the movie drags and you'll have the mystery solved before innocent ditz Nancy ever stumbles onto it.\nKids 12 and under will love the movie because they can suspend disbelief long enough to imagine that people can be perfect and the movie ends happily. Take a little sister or cousin to this movie if you must. Better yet, hand her a Nancy Drew book.