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Metascore®41 out of 100 | Mixed or average reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    In her sassy but scrubbed way, Bynes is a real charmer, and What a Girl Wants is a likable throwaway. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    There's nothing wrong with fairy tales, but they don't have to be formulaic. A movie like this would have benefited from a blending of the fanciful and the inventive. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Works well enough. It has a decided plus in its appealing young star, Amanda Bynes, last seen opposite Frankie Muniz in "Big Fat Liar." Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Dave Kehr

    Minnelli's comedy had its serious underpinnings: by the end of the film, a girl had become a woman. By the end of Ms. Gordon's film, the girl is still a girl, but a girl with much cooler stuff, including a stately home, a butler and a cute British boyfriend. Read full review

  • 60
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott Tobias

    It's a tame, hypocritical fantasy. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    It feels much more like a shameless reshuffle of "The Princess Diaries." Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The movie is clearly intended for girls between the ages of 9 and 15, and for the more civilized of their brothers, and isn't of much use to anyone else. Read full review

  • 40
    Village Voice | Anya Kamenetz

    A culture-shock/daddy-meets-girl romantic comedy, WAGW is a sanitized adventure for the Mary Kate-and-Ashley set. Read full review

  • 38
    Chicago Tribune | Robert K. Elder

    Were it not for young star Amanda Bynes' energetic good nature in the face of drab dialogue and wooden stereotypes, What a Girl Wants might have been a career-ending movie violation rather than just an embarrassing fender-bender. Read full review

  • 20
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    Young audiences may welcome this movie, but girls, and boys, should want more. Read full review

Avg. Fan Rating:
Average Rating = 3.2 out of 5

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