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05/03/06
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Stick It (2006)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:8
Rotten:16
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Director Jessica Bendinger is unable to transfer her winning Bring It On formula to the world of gymnastics, despite Missy Peregrym's strong lead performance.
Theatrical Release:Apr 28, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $26,870,825
Synopsis: A tale of girls flipping over and girls standing up for themselves, this movie smartly defies expectations and overturns plenty of "lone wolf learns teamwork" sports clichés in its story of Hailey... [More]
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym, John Patrick Amedori, Nikki SooHoo
Director: Jessica Bendinger
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Reviews for Stick It
Top CriticI love Jeff Bridges, but watching him mumble and stumble his way through this part, I wondered if maybe he was up before a judge who gave him two choices -- jail or starring in a really bad gymnastics movie.
05/01/06
Top CriticThere is a positive message in the film, often obscured by the bogus punk attitude.
04/28/06
Top CriticIt's a credit to [writer/director] Bendinger's attention to the little details that make Stick It feel so unique and entertaining -- poking fun at elite-level child athletics while still respecting its young characters and their feelings.
04/28/06
Top CriticA spirited, dizzyingly athletic movie about female rites of passage within the bitchy, competitive world of Olympics training.
04/28/06
Top CriticUnfortunately, [Jessica] Bendinger's directorial debut is far more formulaic [than Bring It On].
04/28/06
Top CriticStick It doesn't have an original bone in its buffed body. It's been molded from all the sports-as-salvation movies that Bring It On so adroitly spoofed.
04/28/06
Top CriticStick It is a melodrama that doesn't know when to turn off the waterworks.
04/28/06
Top CriticThe use of the prim but rigorous world of women's gymnastics as a setting for teen rebellion is so strained it leaves the pic's ode to personal authenticity feeling as phony as a dubious decision by a competition judge.
04/28/06
Top CriticSubversively funny ...
04/28/06
Top CriticA spry teenage comedy that gets everything right, Stick It takes the usual batch of underdogs, dirt bags, mean girls and bimbos and sends them somersaulting through happy clichés and unexpected invention.
04/28/06
Top CriticRarely is a sports movie so inept that it can't even make its central figure likable.
04/28/06
Top CriticOn every other level, the film is thoroughly ordinary, with the only distinction being Bridges' typically unaffected and engaging performance.
04/28/06
Top CriticBendinger, who wrote for rock magazine Spin, has figured out a way to salute female competition and unity.
04/27/06
Top CriticStick It uses the story of a gymnast's comeback attempt as a backdrop for overwrought visual effects, music videos, sitcom dialogue and general pandering.
04/27/06
Top CriticStick It may be tough to stick out unless you're a girl between the ages of 11 and 16.
04/27/06
Top CriticThere are some great gymnastics stories out there. This isn't one of them.
04/27/06
Top CriticThe film strives for some type of a girl-empowerment message that equates trading one type of conformity for another with self-determination but muffs the dismount and stumbles on the landing. In other words, it fails to Stick It.
04/27/06
Top CriticStick It isn't groundbreaking material, but at least it keeps its balance.
04/27/06
Top CriticIs it a movie or an episode of Real Sports? It veers into fresh territory but not dramatically satisfying territory.
04/27/06
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