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The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I am surprised that the movie flopped and received many bad reviews. In my opinion it was a really good movie.Melissa Rauch does a great job as the lead character. She is raunchy funny but she is not a one dimensional character and through her depth we see her also as a vulnerable, hurt and lost person.It is both a comedy and drama. And I like the balance between them. We laugh in between but the main parts of the movie are actually not all that funny and more emotional. I did laugh a lot, but I absolutely enjoyed watching Hope rediscovering her love for life, including the great confrontation scene with her father.The movie is better than most sports movies. It is not too sweet and written by the common formula. But it includes some good scenes related to the sport like for example the gymnastics sex scene.The ending also makes one happy. This is what we have been rooting through this movie and it is nice to see it happening.

I have laugh from beginning to the end, and never feel boring during this movie. If more movies could be as good as this one it would be heaven. I don't understand why people can write bad reviews or give bad rating to this movie... It's maybe not a blockbuster, but if you want have fun watching a small funny movie with special people and special story, this movie is made for you!!! I hope this movie can have the success it deserves. And I really want to say a big thank you to every body have work on this movie, it makes people feel good to see this kind of comedy, which look like low budget but actually we can feel there is love and passion behind this movie, thanks to have pay attention to all the details and bring us this kind of fun in the life.

I think this movie really missed it's target audience. While it is breath of foul mouthed air in the usually formulaic and insipid gymnastic movie genre, it goes too far with the raunch. I think if they had pared back the language and nudity to a PG-13 level and replaced it with more character development and heart, they could've been competing for the Gold. Okay, enough of the gymnastic metaphors. Some of this stuff was staring them in face. I mean, they create a central character who's totally self-centered, lacking in schooling and social skills. They could've given her a great scene and a large amount of redemption by revealing her Olympic training robbed her of childhood. She didn't get proper schooling, only had rivals, never friends, never learned how to relate to other people and because of her early victory, was never was allowed to grow up. It was right in front of them but they never go there. As a result Hope lacks depth and the movie doesn't really deliver a satisfying ending. Given that most gymnastic movies target girls who are of age to be learning gymnastics, the language goes too far and the sex scene while being sort of funny is way too graphic for a family with children to watch. They could've accomplished the same goals the movie strives for with a little less of the language and sex and a little more heart. Still, it's a good movie and a fun watch, it's just it could've been very good.

I knew i wanted to see this film the minute i saw the previews. Like the title states, this is a pretty low budget film which is very similar to two Jon Heder films we've already seen, Napolean Dynamite and Blades of Glory. BUT this is very raunchy. I hadn't seen nor heard bad language like this since Hot tub Time Machine 2. But the film is fun to watch, and we see the dehabilitating effects drugs has on individuals.So as the story goes, there is a gymnast who had competed in the Olympics...not the 2002 Salt lake City ones, but 2004 if I remember correctly. This girl, the gymnast ends up winning a Bronze medal..hence what the title of this film is. Well, her coach dies and influences her in a letter to take the protégé that she had been training onto and into a compettitive level as good as she herself had once been.And thats where the film becomes even more interesting, not to mention that some of the stars are virtual unknowns...one of the top billings is an actor that stars in HBO's Silicon Valley.