 Stick It is another movie that appears to borrow from previous movies with aplomb. As Nathan Lee observes in the New York Times, it "takes the usual batch of underdogs, dirt bags, mean girls and bimbos and sends them somersaulting through happy clichés and unexpected invention." (The film, as you may have deduced, is about female gymnastics.) Jami Bernard in the New York Daily News notes that the film is aimed at teenage girls. "The target audience will love it," she writes. Oddly, the actor receiving the best reviews in the movie is Jeff Bridges, who plays the girls' coach. In fact, John Anderson in Newsday remarks, "Bridges has seldom looked or acted as well in recent films as he does here." And Carrie Rickey writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "If there were any justice in the world, this performance would earn him the awards he always gets nominated for but never gets." |
