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Review by Peter Hartlaub

Jessica Bendinger wrote the cheerleading dark comedy "Bring It On," and for her directorial debut, she takes the exact same premise and applies it to competitive gymnastics. This tomboy-fish-out-of-water theme has also been covered in everything from "The Bad News Bears" to the second season of "The Facts of Life."  more..

Review By Cynthia Fuchs 

Stick It wants to be another movie. Specifically, it wants to be the second coming of Bring It On, 2000's bracing cheerocracy adventure. But as the new movie revisits old territory (nominally changing the sport/culture under scrutiny from competitive cheerleading to elite gymnastics), it forgets those precious elements that made the first film so, well, precious. Namely, Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union, Faith, and surprise. And oh yes, the refreshing absence of adults. more.. 

Review by Draven99 

Here is a film that points out the clichés of its own characters, while at the same time relishing the fact that it is a cliché. Have we reached the point where pointing out the cliché is, itself, cliché? Even if you haven't handed over your hard earned money for a ticket, you've seen this movie, or at least a number of movies just like it. It seems to be happy toeing the line of mediocrity.

I found Stick It to be such a non-event that it is as if it doesn't even exist. That doesn't leave me with much of a jump off point to write about it, but there it is. It is so inoffensive in execution, that I have to wonder what the real point of it was. Granted, there are a couple of elements that seem to give more life to the film than it deserves, it still remains well within the straight and narrow confines of the teen comedy/drama.  more..