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Based on the original mystery book series by Mildred Wirt Benson, "Nancy Drew" has been updated to modern times, but doesn't lose sight of what made the savvy teenage sleuth such a hit with young readers throughout the last eight decades.

And, lest loyalists start crying foul, she is rarely without her tidy wool suits, sophisticated dresses, investigative tool kit and penny loafers. As directed by Andrew Fleming (2003's "The In-Laws"), "Nancy Drew" is a genial and fast-paced family film, as light as cotton candy but sure to win over its target audience of pre-teen girls.

For everyone else, it is a painless lark that is much less sugarcoated than it could have been.

16-year-old Nancy Drew (Emma Roberts) is something of a star in her small town of River Heights, a makeshift detective who manages to catch all the criminals that the police force can't.

When she and her dad Carson (Tate Donovan) uproot themselves to Los Angeles for the summer, he makes her promise that her un