A 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.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Scott Brown
A deliriously, defiantly unfocused headrush, Stick It is primarily an exercise in exercise.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Subversively funny, Stick It sees gymnastics as a microcosm of teen life.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Bridges actually does a fine job in an uninteresting role. But this chick flick is all about the attitudinal teenagers.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
Peregrym is like a secondhand Hilary Swank. She has a looser presence and might be a better actor, but since we already have Swank, finding out is not a priority.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Stick It uses the story of a gymnast's comeback attempt as a backdrop for overwrought visual effects, music videos, sitcom dialogue and general pandering. The movie seems to fear that if it pauses long enough to actually be about gymnastics, the audience will grow restless.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Crust
The 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.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
Instead of gold-medal-winning, last-minute heroics, the movie weirdly becomes about the scandal of arbitrary gymnastics judges. Is it a movie or an episode of "Real Sports"? It veers into fresh territory but not dramatically satisfying territory.Read Full Review »
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