Comments | goes_disco: Whip It was awesome. No arguments will be brooked.

goes_disco

Whip It was awesome. No arguments will be brooked.

Oct 24, 2009 11:39

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.

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Comments 5

tiamat360 October 26 2009, 00:46:34 UTC

On the basis of your review here, occultatio and I went to see this movie today, and it was in fact awesome. Even more incredibly, it not only entertained us, but my somewhat conservatively-minded mother and my slightly apathetic hockey-playing brother. That's pretty rare. The movie's aesthetic very much reminded us of you :D.

(unrelatedly, occultatio sat down to write virtually the same response at the same time I did)

goes_disco October 26 2009, 04:31:34 UTC

I am so glad you did! ^_^ And am doubly-glad that this convinced several people to go see it, because mysteriously it is not doing as well as people thought. It is such a fantastic entertaining movie that it makes me sad to see it flounder around a bit.

soderbergh October 26 2009, 04:47:46 UTC

I'm pleased with this sudden burst of movie reviews! I have yet to see Whip It! I was planning on seeing it this evening but organic chem took it over, instead. Next weekend.

Where the Wild Things are was absolutely fabulous though.

soderbergh October 26 2009, 04:50:14 UTC

PS I love Ellen Page, too! I will see anything if Ellen Page is in it. My parents tell me she looks like me in this movie (they saw it; I haven't yet). Apparently she's going to try directing for HBO soon.

soderbergh November 6 2009, 23:07:31 UTC

So I saw Whip It, and I was unimpressed. Granted, I will like Ellen Page in absolutely anything she does. but it basically felt like a trite, dim-witted version of Bend It Like Beckham, only full contact and without the emotional backbone (or character development). Essentially the girl has no life plan or any idea about how she's going to feed herself. The entire plotline follows EXACTLY bend it like beckham except that her boy toy turns out to be a jerk. And we never are really told why she likes roller derby and why it's so darn great. We're just supposed to accept its awesomeness, both in general, and to her.

IT had a lot of potential though. It was really buoyant, well shot, had some funny lines/scenes, some potentially interesting characters who didn't get properly developed. I was disappointed. I also laughed through huge chunks of it because of its lameness. Isaac kept pointing his finger at his head like a gun wishing he could shoot himself and get the hell out of there. I wasn't so offended but I wasn't far off either.