Don't Believe the Hype

Better than most people think

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Is that title weird? Does teenybopper seem out of place in the title? I don't know I just really like that word. I love Stick It. Stick It is a super chick flick, and I love chick flicks, but this isn't exactly my style. What I mean to say is I love this movie but it's a total chick flick, like almost too much so, well, not too much so in a bad way like it's bad or anything, Stick It is awesome, I'm just saying I'm a boy and I love Stick It but it's just moreso for girls. That's what I'm trying to say. Is that weird? Okay, great because the weird part's over. Vanessa Lengies OMG I love you. I'm a boy and I was born on July 21, 1985, that's 7/21/85. O M G.....I love you Vanessa Lengies. You were born on 7/21/85 too and that makes us beautiful kindred spirits. I loved you before I ever even knew when your birthday was, and that's a fact. I love Waiting... and I was immediately like 'who is that super hottie hostess what's her name?' when I first seen you and I've always known your name since then and from this movie Stick It and it's like not even a big deal. Vanessa, you're freaking awesome in this movie and I love you and you can totally get any part you want in movies because you are absolutely as absolutely gorgeous as any woman I've ever laid eyes on, and it's not just because we have the same day of birth, believe me. It's because you're so cute. I love cute girls and I love you. Okay, did that get weird? Omg I almost forgot, not really, but Vanessa you look so hot in Stick It and flaming hot in your pink leotard. You make me feel like a teenybopper, okay it just got weird, not really. Vanessa, you're the hottest teenybopper ever, and that's a fact, well, at least you were. I, love this moviiiiieee! God I really love Vanessa Lengies and Missy Pergrym is super awesome too. Vanessa, you're awesome.

If you like gymnastics you will like this. This is basically a teenybopper film but enjoy it in background while I am writing this review. I am a 55 year old male so I do have some taste in culture. I enjoyed much of the actual music tracks used and we all watch the female Olympic competitions don't we? This is a bit like that and has many silly teen addictions to it. What we don't think about most of the time is the actual training needed to have the skills to compete in that sport. There is stamina, danger, and fun involved. Not a have to see film but you might enjoy it. I really enjoyed the actual track that came on like Adam Ant's "Goody Two Shoes" and a few others like some by Green day and such. It you are into what used to called "Punk Rock" but now is referred to as "alternative music" you will like this film.

Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym) is a caught vandalizing a home and sentenced to VGA in Houston, Texas. It's an elite gymnastic academy run by strict Burt Vickerman (Jeff Bridges). She's a rebellious teen who walked out of her junior Olympic team years earlier. Nobody likes her especially top girl Joanne Charis (Vanessa Lengies). Haley wants to do big tricks but she lacks control.It tries to be too cute and too stylized at the start. It comes off as being cheesy but in a bad way. The story is a lot of girl drama. Missy Peregrym is good as the tomboy rebel. Jeff Bridges does a nice but unimpressive job. It's trying to be Mean Girls with gymnastics in a traditional sports movie. It's not aiming for a very high score and it almost sticks the landing.

I've seen many movies in my day, and I usually give movies a chance before I see them, but after a half-hour of this, i wanted to stick a fork in my eyes and just boil them to rid them from this horrifyingly horrendous movie. This is the most monotonous, cheesy, corny, terrible, poor acting skills, sports affiliated, piece of crap i've ever seen.Please don't' see this movie, because I assure you, if you're not a big gymnastics of sports fan, you will want to beg the cashier for their money back at blockbusters...it's absolutely horrid, please don't' see it, you'll want your money back