Stick It (2006)

Redundant and unnecessary.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

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.

Unrealistic, stupid, boring, poorly written, annoying characters, terrible plot... I could go on forever. This movie was absolute trash from beginning to end. Don't waste your life watching this junk, even 'Bring it on' was better. On no planet would national gymnastics championships go like it does in 'Stick It'. The first half of the movie was bearable, even though I hated every single character (especially the main arrogant bitch) , but the second half was trash. An entire half hour or so is spent on one tournament where nothing happens except a bunch of talented gymnasts purposefully walking off instead of performing any tricks, and the audience cheers every bloody time?? What the actual f** is happening here? In conclusion, the movie was so bad that I had to get onto IMDb and write my first ever movie review. Thank You

What do I know about gymnastics? What prior link or connection have I had to gymnastics? What did I learn about gymnastics from 2006 film Stick It? The collective answer to all three is "absolutley nothing at all". But what I can share in reference to gymnastics, and in particular young American girls going through a process of gymnastic trials and tribulations, is the said sport going on during the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The Olympics being what they are, that odd occasion every four years in the middle of the summer in which you end up following sports you've often never heard of let alone ever sat down to competently watch, saw me stumble across the young American girl's team doing all sorts of gymnastic activity and doing them really rather well. The situation saw really rather young, and one would assume completely naive to what life can through at you; bleary eyed gymnasts in a group of about six or seven dwarfed by this huge China-set gymnastics auditorium full of roaring crowds, proceeding to follow through with a number of quite frightening procedures ranging from bars to vaults to all sorts. Their feats matched those of the host nation's entrants, and a battle for the gold medal was certainly unfolding; the experience of these youngsters travelling to Beijing, in China, with all the Communist or political turmoil that in itself carries, must have been an experience in itself. This, as the pressure that is on them anyway must have all combined in a flurry of emotions and personal feelings.So a film about American gymnastics competing, having to hone their ability and supposedly going through this coming-of-age-come-realisation of life transition might be more interesting if it were about those journeying half way across the world to compete such as in the scenario above. We don't get this with Stick It; instead, we get a tired and eerily fetishistic formula piece in which Missy Peregrym's Haley Graham is the star of a tale about a washed-out rebellious girl whose fondness for gymnastics threatens to re-emerge after she's busted for damage of private property. We know Haley is a bit of a rebel, as she wears a Ramones T-shirt, has a Sex Pistols poster sprawled over her bedroom wall and uses a few four letter words now and again. Since, she's rejected a seemingly warm and rewarding life of gymnastics for hanging out with shady types and engaging in illegal BMX activity instead, itself an item of physical performance; balance and show.In being caught after breaking some property during a BMX meeting, she must face going back to gymnastics and at the forefront of this is Jeff Bridges' tutor named Burt Vickerman. The film is the first from Jessica Bendinger, whose film is mostly just montages and loving compositions of various female gymnasts in tight leotards flexing, being massaged or getting out of ice baths in slow motion whilst dripping wet. When we aren't getting shots of how curvy Maddy Curley looks dressed as such, they're close ups of feet; all the while filtered through this bright, misguided palette of shades of red's, green's, blue's, yellow's and whites. At their first proper meeting with one another in a diner, Vickerman identifies Haley as a "rebel without a clause"; she sees him, in what is an odd self-reflective moment, as nothing more than a cliché and they sit opposite each another in what is an attempt at establishing degrees of conflict. The trouble is their banter plus general theme of there being a rivalry between 'student whom doesn't want to be there' and 'gruff tutor living off a past tragedy' is a little turgid. As is the on-off friendship with Joanne (Lengies), whom we despise not because she is the rival of our heroine but because it's as if she's stumbled into a gymnastics class on the way home from finishing last at a Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen-come-Hanna Montanna soundalike contest, and felt thoroughly downbeat in the process.As a team of Haley, Joanne and a few others of whom aren't important are forced into bonding, the team flit around the country competing in competitions which gives an array of companies the chance for some shocking product placement. The film instills some rather negative ideas into its intended young, female audience when Haley is bitterly disappointed to be initially left out of a squad and the idea that failure exists and is something we must all identify exists becomes apparent; this, before she burrows her way back in with a snazzy and flashy montage of an in-house squad playoff she instigates and the point is undermined. It's ridiculous, as is the film's further ramming down of our throat that Haley is an outcast in that when she arrives at the competition, something is spilt on her top and she must change into a different coloured tunic further still emphasising a difference between her and the team: she's an outcast, we get it. Move on.At the event is an odd staging of deliberate fouling to 'get one up' on the judges; essentially writer/director Bendinger giving the finger, through the girls in the film/the girls the film's made for, to any negative critical reception the film may garner. One additionally wonders why the paying audience reacted so lovingly to the persistent fouling, one wonders furthermore why crowds would come to a gymnastics event with cards ready to wave around on which '0.0' is displayed. A meek sub-plot linked to Joanne about whether she chooses young love and a trip to a prom over the girls and their championship match is a flimsy and dull inclusion; while the film as a whole is a limp and plodding affair, highly sexualised and tamely unfolded, the likes of which was not made for me and ought not really be seen by those it was intended for.

I was really impressed.There are so many things that are so agreeable if you have ever tried to do any of it.It's very well done and interesting. The cinematography, color, quality and sets are awesome.This movie is great. I would very much like to see it again.It might indeed be a movie worth only watching on DVD, however.The style is very much like Step Up 2, but is a little more down to earth.I really enjoyed watching it on TV.