Whip It was awesome. No arguments will be brooked.
This journal appears to have turned into a repository for my movie reviews. Oh well! :D
Reluctant high school pageant contestant meets roller derby. awesomeness ensues. Trailer available here.
Ellen Page + roller derby. There was really no way this could go wrong. As the trailer indicates, this move is really funny, as well as being populated by actresses I like (rarely do I get attached to actors in this way! It's weird. Laura Mulvey would probably have something to say about that). Ellen Page is rapidly approaching Amanda Seyfriend territory for me, as in I will go to see a movie just because she's in it. Fortunately that is not the only reason to see Whip It. It's a cute story -- fortunately not Heartwarming; any movie described as Heartwarming should be avoided like the plague -- and it's really well-acted, and it's a lot of fun. The movie would be worth it for the roller derby scenes alone, or for the character Smashley Simpson (played by Drew Barrymore). She's a secondary character but she is hilarious. Also has awesome hair. Made me momentarily want to back to long and blonde.
It's funny, it's well acted, it's action-packed (roller derby is rough in this film!) for a certain value of action, and also it has tough awesome female characters who resist being caricatures, and who don't fall apart under pressure. There's not a lot more I can say about this movie other than you'll be happier about the world after you've seen it, and the 2h and $10 you spent on it will seem cheap for the entertainment value.
Reluctant high school pageant contestant meets roller derby. awesomeness ensues. Trailer available here.
Ellen Page + roller derby. There was really no way this could go wrong. As the trailer indicates, this move is really funny, as well as being populated by actresses I like (rarely do I get attached to actors in this way! It's weird. Laura Mulvey would probably have something to say about that). Ellen Page is rapidly approaching Amanda Seyfriend territory for me, as in I will go to see a movie just because she's in it. Fortunately that is not the only reason to see Whip It. It's a cute story -- fortunately not Heartwarming; any movie described as Heartwarming should be avoided like the plague -- and it's really well-acted, and it's a lot of fun. The movie would be worth it for the roller derby scenes alone, or for the character Smashley Simpson (played by Drew Barrymore). She's a secondary character but she is hilarious. Also has awesome hair. Made me momentarily want to back to long and blonde.
It's funny, it's well acted, it's action-packed (roller derby is rough in this film!) for a certain value of action, and also it has tough awesome female characters who resist being caricatures, and who don't fall apart under pressure. There's not a lot more I can say about this movie other than you'll be happier about the world after you've seen it, and the 2h and $10 you spent on it will seem cheap for the entertainment value.