ICE PRINCESS

'''Ice Princess''' is a 2005 Disney live action film, directed by Tim Fywell.

Contents

Summary

Cast

Factual errors

Production and continuity errors

Real skaters on set

Soundtrack album

External links

Summary

Michelle Trachtenberg plays Casey Carlyle, a brainy bookworm and physics geek. Casey decides to use her academic skill by pursuing a scholarship offered to the top students in the state. For the scholarship, Casey must do a "personal" project about physics. While watching a figure skating competition featuring Sasha Cohen, Casey realizes that her hobby, ice skating, would make a perfect project for getting her scholarship. Initially, she watches other skaters at the local ice rink, but decides to try to improve her own skating by applying the physics and what she found out from analyzing other skaters. She becomes exceptionally good at skating, even skipping two levels to get a Junior Pass.
Unsure of what she really wants, Casey has a difficult time juggling schoolwork, skating, and a job to pay for her skating lessons. Her mother, played by Joan Cusack, realizes that her daughter's constant skating is affecting her schoolwork and tells her to stop skating. Casey refuses and goes to regionals with help from her friend, Gen, and her coach. In the end, Casey turns down the scholarship to Harvard to keep skating, and attains a silver medal in the Sectionals. Casey and her mom reconcile after two months, and Casey finally gains her mother's support.

Cast

★ Michelle Trachtenberg as Casey Carlyle

★ Joan Cusack as Joan Carlyle

★ Kim Cattrall as Tina Harwood

★ Hayden Panettiere as Gennifer "Gen" Harwood

★ Trevor Blumas as Teddy Harwood

★ Kirsten Olson as Nikki Fletcher

★ Jocelyn Lai as Tiffany Lai

★ Connie Ray as Mrs. Fletcher

★ Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Mr. Lai

★ Juliana Cannarozzo as Zoe Bloch

★ Kristina Whitcomb as Ms. Fisher Le

Factual errors

★ In the final standings posting of the Regional Championship, Worcester, Massachusetts is misspelled twice -- in the 1st place with Zoe Bloch, and the 6th place with Avril Dishaw -- it is spelled as "Wooster", Massachusetts. There is no Wooster in Massachusetts. It is in Ohio. However, Worcester is often pronounced "Wooster".

★ The kids and Casey are automatically in Juvenile, which skips Pre-Preliminary, Preliminary, and Pre-Juvenile.

★ Music that a skater skates to in the long program and short program must be instrumental, without a person singing.

★ As the last skater at sectionals, Casey would not be skating on clean ice; nor would there be theatrical lighting.

★ ESPN does not cover junior sectionals (or any junior events).

★ In a real test to pass to the next level, the lights are on and there are no spotlights. There is a maximum of two people on the ice at a time, and there is nothing on the ice and no music. You cannot skip two levels, and there are two tests to pass for one level.

★ The kids were learning Freestyle 2 and Freestyle 6 moves, not Snowplow Sam.

★ While narrating her project video, Casey says "Now, I’m going to increase the centripetal force by tucking in my arms. This will increase my moment of inertia, so I will spin faster." Regarding moment of inertia, this is exactly backward. Bringing in the arms will reduce her moment of inertia. (It is true that she will spin faster, to conserve angular momentum.)

★ At the party, Casey states that "velocity times momentum equals acceleration". This is false; velocity multiplied by momentum yields only mv², which is just kinetic energy multiplied by two. This isn't an expression for acceleration, and is not fundamentally meaningful.

★ Harvard College, like all other Ivy League schools, offers need-based scholarships, not merit-based scholarships, to applicants, so to attend Harvard, Casey should have only needed to be accepted for admission. She should not have had to compete for a merit-based scholarship.

Production and continuity errors

★ During the regionals, someone in the crowd holds a sign that reads "Zoey Block Sure Can Rock". In the credits, her name is spelled without a "y" at the end, and her last name with an "h" instead of a "k". However, this might be an intentional misspelling.

★ There are many times during the mid-end of the movie where you can see a microphone hanging from the edge of the screen. (In those scenes, the microphone is covered by a black, furry microphone cover.) There is also one scene where the pole of the microphone is easily seen.

★ When Casey is skating on her pond (just before Teddy comes with the zamboni), she falls. But if you look very closely she is actually not wearing any skates at all, just shoes. She also drops her hat on the ice - she never picks it back up before Teddy goes over the ice with the Zamboni.

★ Because Tina wants Casey to go into the "bubble" while performing, you see her put in ear-plugs, then she looks around, and there are absolutely no ear-plugs in her ear.

Real skaters on set

★ Brian Boitano (USA) ''as Himself/Commentator''

★ Juliana Cannarozzo (USA) ''as Zoe Bloch''

★ Tara Ferguson (CAN) ''as Gen's skating double''

★ Danielle Kahle (USA) ''as Nikki's skating double''

★ Michelle Kwan (USA) ''as Herself/Commentator''

★ Jocelyn Lai (USA) ''as Tiffany''

★ Kirsten Olson (USA) ''as Nikki Fletcher''

★ Jennifer Robinson (CAN) ''Casey's skating double''

★ Sandra Rucker (USA) ''Casey's skating double''

★ Cassandre Van Bakel (CAN) ''Casey's skating double''

★ Lauren Wilson (CAN) ''Casey's skating double''

★ Victoria Yeung (CAN) ''Tiffany's skating double''

Soundtrack album

Released March 15, 2005.
Track list:
# "Reach" - Caleigh Peters
# "If I Had My Way" - Emma Roberts
# "Get Your Shine On" - Jesse McCartney
# "You Set Me Free" - Michelle Branch
# "Reachin' for Heaven" - Diana DeGarmo
# "No One" - Aly & A.J.
# "It's Oh So Quiet" - Lucy Woodward
# "Get Up" - Superchick
# "I Fly" - Hayden Panettiere
# "Just a Dream" - Jump5
# "Bump" - Raven-Symone
# "There Is No Alternative" - Tina Sugandh
# "Unwritten" - Natasha Bedingfield

External links

★ Official site

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★ Movie soundtrack