So I went and saw that sassy gymnastics movie yesterday. You know, the one from the people that brought you the greatest cheerleading movie ever made - Bring It On. This time around, it was called Stick it, and it wasn't too bad.
On the plus side, it was total eye candy. Like a kaleidescope - just beautiful, mesmerizing, gratuitous eye candy. They did all kinds of McG-type music-video kind of stuff, for our guilty sensory pleasure. That certainly didn't move the story along, but I didn't have a problem with it, cuz it was just plain cool. The hard-bodied 16-year-old gymnasts weren't too bad to look at either.
It also captured the fun, sassy, youthful spirit of the classic teen-comedies. It had some really cute one-liners too.
On the negative side, the story was super-formulaic, and the main character bordered on obnoxious. Overall grade = B-.
New Roof - Summer 2019
3 years ago
3 comments:
Why are you so far away? I want to see Stick It, but I'm too embarassed to tell anyone but you. Since when is formulaic bad?
Formulaic is bad when there's no innovative leap, you know what I mean? Like, the gymnastics angle was slightly innovative, but some of the movie was so formulaic Karate Kid, it was laughable.
You should get yourself an 11-year-old nephew. They're GREAT excuses for seeing embarrassingly awesome movies. (Like Eight Below, which was AMAZING!!) :-)
Gabrielle Union was HOT in Bring it On.
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