Stick It Reviews

A message of competitive independence permeates debut director Jessica Bendinger's spunky movie about Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym) a headstrong gymnast-disguised-as-rebel who learns to embrace her talents by way of careful coaching from Jeff Bridges.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

A middle-aged white guy who's not a perv can actually enjoy the snappy dialogue, astounding athletics and solidly sentimental sports clichés.

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Missy Peregrym is a real find - she gives an energetic, funny and extremely physical performance, to the point where you feel exhausted just watching her.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Snappy dialog and some prickly satire give it an edge most of these youthful romps lack.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Stick It is an enjoyable kids' film with a tough group of gals who have an appreciation for gymnastics and claim that what they do is harder than being a Navy SEAL.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

A deliriously, defiantly unfocused headrush...

Full Review | Original Score: B-

This film is about as bitchy and mean spirited as you can and still have sweetness and light all around at the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

"Stick It" is a movie full of attitude, eye candy and action.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

This is no rah-rah spandex-strutting teen flick. It's a pointed human drama with plenty to say about the unfair, borderline child-abusive sport of gymnastics, with its archaic, dense scoring system.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Jeff Bridges has never been better than he is here as a coach who uses authority, patience and humor to motivate the gymnasts in his charge.

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It would of course be irresponsible of me to say that all teenage girls will love this movie. But I can say, with some certainty, that more than a few twenty-five year old boys will like it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Yes, we're in the world of elite gymnastics, and Jessica Bendinger's Stick It is an enjoyable exercise in girl power.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It'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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A spirited, dizzyingly athletic movie about female rites of passage within the bitchy, competitive world of Olympics training.

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For what it is, this is a cut above the tween film genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

All the sizzling attitude of a great floor routine, and all of the discipline and heart as well.

| Original Score: B+

Three cheers for a feisty, break-all-the-rules heroine who is a bold innovator in the grueling world of competitive gymnastics.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

... a frothy girl-power manifesto so briskly paced, sharply written and infectiously entertaining that its deficiencies seem as insignificant as a lightly chipped fingernail.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Subversively funny ...

| Original Score: 3/4

Writer-director Jessica Bendinger, an ex-model, veteran of Sex and the City and fun girl comedies, throws away more good lines than most teen comedies can muster.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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