Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg) went around living her average life as a science geek, that is until her science teacher mentions a special scholarship for physics.  In order to win the scholarship though, you have to make the project creative and personal, and it's due by the fall.  Thankfully, Casey has all summer long to work on the project and come up with something unique she can use.  While watching a figure skating competition on T.V., Casey decides to put physics to use in order to try and come up with an exact science to figure skating.  Taking the project head on, Casey begins hanging out at the local skating rink and recording the competitive skaters who are training there.  Nikki (Kirsten Olson), Tiffany (Joceyln Lai) and Gen (Hayden Panettiere) are all elite skaters with a dream to make it to the Nationals, with giant attitudes, and have trained mostly all their lives.  In the midst of working on her project, Casey uses her love of skating to put her project where her mouth is, by using the laws to apply them to herself. 

In transforming herself into her project, Casey in turn finds herself inching farther and farther away from her mother's dream of her going to Harvard.  Casey can't exactly afford skating lessons, outfits, or new skates to help pursue her new skating passion.  Luckily, Gen's mom Tina (Kim Cattrall) used to be a professional skater (but is disgraced) and she owns Harwoods Rink, the local rink where the skaters train at.  By working at Harwoods at the food counter, Casey saves up enough to pay for some beginner lessons.  Once she gets a taste of actual skating life, she has a thirst for more and decides to trade physic skating lessons to the professional girls to help them improve, for a skating routine and a few other things.  Casey begins doing well, but Tina doesn't want to just sit idly by while Casey and her natural ability outshines her daughter Gen.  Gen doesn't want to skate though, she wants to live the normal life of a teenager who gets to spend time with her boyfriend.  Casey doesn't have the support of her mom, she does however have the support of cute guy Teddy (Trevor Blumas) who happens to be Tina's son and the Zamboni driver at the rink.  Casey's up for the challenge of her life with skating, but can she really beat out some of the best skaters in the world using physics to become an "ice princess."

Michelle Trachtenberg proves that even with brains can come beauty, while Hayden Panettiere plays the snobby girl turned friend.  Panettiere seems to do a 180 in the film which seems to only happen because she wants out of the skating world.  Seems as though Panettiere's character is only friendly to Casey in order to help her take over her skating position.  Gen even uses Casey to be able to go to a party at her boyfriend's but there is little to no fuss put up by Casey with the situation, seems unlikely.  Joan Cusack plays her normal overprotective parent who just wants the right thing for her daughter, because it's something she herself couldn't accomplish.  Kim Cattrall plays her typical character who is too good for everyone else in the film, she comes off as trying to have airs when she's been turned into a divorced housewife. 

One of the bonus features included with this DVD are five short deleted scenes that don't include any introduction or commentary.  It's a wonder why these scenes were actually cut from the movie to begin with!  Another bonus feature is an alternate opening to the movie, it shows Casey at a very young age.  Casey's doing two of the conflicting interests that make up this film, long division and pond skating.  This is all in order to clear her head before things segway into present day and the theatrical cut of the movie begins.  There are some brief exchanges between Casey and a young skating classmate and Tina and then there is a final one that has Tina at Casey's pond where she is skating with Teddy, this happens to conflict with what actually goes down in the film.  The alternate opening is interesting and it is well worth a viewing.  Two music videos are also pleasantly included with the DVD, there is Caleigh Peters' video for "Reach" and Aly and AJ's song "No One."  All three females are actually on Disney labels so it's easy to figure that these videos were a must when putting together the extras, plus of course the songs appear in the film. 

Finally, there is an audio commentary feature that has Michelle Trachtenberg, Trevor Blumas, Kirsten Olson and Hayden Panettiere speaking.  When hearing the commentary it gives a feel that the voices sound as if they were recorded separately, rather than as a group.  Michelle gives the best and most interesting insights into the filming and Olson seems to only serve as a skating expert to cover the films anomalies.  The group mentions an absent blooper reel and mainly only really big fans of the movie should take time to listen to.

Ice Princess is a great movie with a positive message for both male and female viewers, make sure you take the time to skate on over to your theater and take a look.