Doing what you know you were meant to do in life can often be a very difficult thing to achieve, and there are a rare few people with the courage it takes to follow that call. That’s the message lying at the heart of Ice Princess, though the movie takes the long route getting to it.
The film gets off to a rocky start, tracing absurd lines around the kind of plot one would expect from a silly made-for-Disney-Channel movie. Casey Carlyle is a junior in high school and something of a science genius. Thrown in for good measure is the simple joy she takes in ice skating on the pond in her rural backyard. Her mother Joan, a bitterly feminist woman, dreams of the day when her brilliant daughter will rise above her humble roots to study physics at Harvard. Since the prestigious school doesn’t come cheap, Casey jumps at the chance for a scholarship by completing a special physics project. She must find research subject that has scientific merit but, of course, is also something she is passionate about.
Casey decides to focus on her weekend hobby of ice skating. Using her ridiculously advanced understanding of physics and computer modeling to develop a ridiculously advanced software package on a deadline that would make Microsoft blush, she creates a program that analyzes the physics of figure skaters’ movements to determine what actions they can take to improve their performance. To help make the project more personal and thereby demonstrate her passion for her topic, Casey begins applying the overly simplistic principles to her own skating, only to learn she’s a pretty darn good figure skater.
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