How old was i in 1995..Who knows. Lets be honest here. This movie was made for only one reason. Not, not that 80% of the american teen population had a crush on at least one of these two, not THAT reason. To mop up the novelty of Anna post MY GIRL movies which everybody knew as those exploded as the defacto family movies of the era. And Christina was riding high following the ADDAMS FAMILY movies which too, were seen by all. Unintentionally both movie franchises followed a very similar release schedule. 91 and 93 for addams, 91 and 94 for my girl.
Somebody had the brilliant idea to combine these two together and put them in a movie. But it was the wrong movie you see.. Neither of these 2 were cut for adventure girly movie vanilla script and story. Ricci did nice with dark quirky roles and Anna was more of the girl next door person and required a male actor to get to project that image. Together they had no chemistry. From start to finish.
Here they put ricci as annas role, and anna became some tomboy that does not ooze a single sweat drop of toughness. If they reversed them, it would have worked better. The whole movie is forced and it feels so. It is supposed to be a childrens adventure movie and yeah at the time it worked because we all knew who these 2 were and nobody was going to say anything. But 30 years later i totally can because i watched it again I can see how bad it is. It is sad.
Yet i cannot be too hard on it because this is not supposed to be serious. It was simply combining 2 actors before they aged out completely and rolling out a quick family movie with all the elements of the 90s.
6\10 It is just average... and miscast.
