'This sport is a total joke!' fumes the spunky gymnast heroine of Stick It, a sentiment that will be shared by anyone who wastes their hard-earned on this silly teen comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 17, 2006

Star Missy Peregrym shows more promise in her first feature, despite the fact that her teenage years are clearly behind her, and her charismatic screen presence enlivens an otherwise dull film.

| Oct 14, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2006

The script fights well against the cliche-ridden plot but this is very average all round.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 13, 2006

Bridges, as always, turns in dependable work as the hard-nosed coach Vickerman, but the character comes with a little too much backstory that neither advances the plot nor finds resolution.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 6, 2006

A deliriously, defiantly unfocused headrush...

| Original Score: B- | May 3, 2006

I love Jeff Bridges, but watching him mumble and stumble his way through this part, I wondered if maybe he was up before a judge who gave him two choices -- jail or starring in a really bad gymnastics movie.

Full Review | May 1, 2006

There is a positive message in the film, often obscured by the bogus punk attitude.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 28, 2006

Yes, we're in the world of elite gymnastics, and Jessica Bendinger's Stick It is an enjoyable exercise in girl power.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2006

It's a credit to [writer/director] Bendinger's attention to the little details that make Stick It feel so unique and entertaining -- poking fun at elite-level child athletics while still respecting its young characters and their feelings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2006

A spirited, dizzyingly athletic movie about female rites of passage within the bitchy, competitive world of Olympics training.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2006

Unfortunately, [Jessica] Bendinger's directorial debut is far more formulaic [than Bring It On].

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 28, 2006

Stick It doesn't have an original bone in its buffed body. It's been molded from all the sports-as-salvation movies that Bring It On so adroitly spoofed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 28, 2006

If this sounds like an old ABC After-School Special, it certainly could be.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 28, 2006

Stick It is a melodrama that doesn't know when to turn off the waterworks.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 28, 2006

All the sizzling attitude of a great floor routine, and all of the discipline and heart as well.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Apr 28, 2006

The use of the prim but rigorous world of women's gymnastics as a setting for teen rebellion is so strained it leaves the pic's ode to personal authenticity feeling as phony as a dubious decision by a competition judge.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2006

Subversively funny ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2006

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2006

Rarely is a sports movie so inept that it can't even make its central figure likable.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 28, 2006