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If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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.

Ultrahip BMX extraordinaire (and former gymnast revelation) Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym) gets busted after pool-jumping and causing some minor damage to a house in construction. As a result the judge sentences here to enrol into an elite gymnastics programme run by Burt Vickerman (Jeff Bridges). At first attempting to rebel and sabotage the training she as sure as the snow is white becomes enticed by the opportunity that was presented to her.The whole movie starts off with several extremely false notes with a script taken from "Dumb and Dumber". After causing a small incident at a construction site one of the Three Stooges decides to sound the alarm by opening a door. Then Haley forced to run on foot decides to throw away all her clothes - the only reason being this served as a way to deliver the shock revelation that the opening sequence xtreme BMX jump was actually performed by a girl. After which she proceeds to run down the middle of the street as if to scream 'Hey! Look! I'm here! I'm guilty! Bust me!"Fast-forward to court, where we soon find out that breaking a window causes damages worth 40,000 USD (one pricey piece of glass...). A few minutes later with have a scene, where Haley's co-culprits drive up on their bikes to Haley and in the presence of the social worker responsible for dropping her off to the gym programme thank her for not ratting them out...Just hilarious...Admitedly it does get better once we get to the gymnastics program and Jeff Bridges takes control of proceedings. Nonetheless the whole supporting cast is lame (fronted by Missy Pelegrym) and the absolute crappiness of jokes / lines only punctuate their lameness. It does seem that the scriptwriter is well versed in gymnastics, which strongly benefits the jump-and-bump storyline, but hinders the rest of the movie as his grasp of anything outside of the sport seems minimal.All in all the gymnastics and Jeff Bridges do make the movie watchable and somewhat enjoyable, but there is no avoiding it: This is a crap picture with bad direction and a stupendously stupid script.

I liked the subplot. I liked the insertion of Joanne's Mama's relationship with the Coach, bringing more young gymnasts back to train with the Coach. I also think the movie could have been longer. Easily.I would have seen this movie way faster if I had known that Haley was going to lead a friggin' revolution.Why can't we have more movies like this one? I wish more movies dared to push the damn envelope a little.I miss laughing this much at movies. SO many props for a movie that for once features a female lead whose entire life is not wrapped around the possibility of a romance with some guy. Word in women's circles has got to travel faster to the young folks when movies like this come out, that's all I'm sayin.'This movie rocks.

After watching the film I felt rather cheated. I don't normally enjoy these sort of films but I have been proved wrong with films such as 'Centre Stage' which I thought had a good story, interesting characters and whilst entertaining to its target audience which is generally teenage girls it dealt with themes like anorexia and bolemia. This film doesn't have any of that. It doesn't have a good story, in fact it doesn't have any story. You have a rebel (Missy Peregrym) who is sent off to do gymnastics after having quit a number of years before. That's all, they enter some competitions and it gets rather predictable from there. Why the brilliant actor Jeff Bridges would associate himself with this film, I have no idea but he must have been offered a huge pay-cheque. The characters are annoying and one-dimensional and it fails to deal with any themes which are relevant, interesting and necessary. Don't see it.