Stick It A Movie Review	MPAA Rated - PG-13 It's 1:45 Long A Review by The Dude on the Right

Missy plays Haley. Haley is a rebel who likes to do stunts on her bicycle and hand out with her two rebel friends. She used to be a talented gymnast, but than left a competition leaving her team high and dry. After a bike stunt gone wrong, namely crashing through a window in a mansion being built, the judge gives her the choice of military school, or gymnastics school. Haley wants military school, but the judge doesn’t care what Haley wants and sends her to gymnastics school.

So there Haley is, at Vickerman’s Gymnastics Academy (VGA), where coach and owner Burt Vickerman (Jeff Bridges) is pretty much all about conning parents into believing their little girls can get to the Olympics. Haley isn’t too thrilled to be there, Burt really has only one reason to keep her there (which we find out later in the movie), but yes, eventually they learn lots of important lessons about their lives and become best buddies.

In the meantime we get some other gymnasts who couldn’t understand why Haley would let her team down, before, and quit the tournament she was in. They also have no social lives, so when Haley’s two rebel dude-friends show up, it’s love at first sight. In the anti-Haley crowd sits Joanne (Vanessa Lengies), a smart-mouth girl who comes off as a complete idiot (case in point, Haley explains that she got her GED when she was fifteen, and Joanne thinks it’s a drunk driving conviction).

As the movie progresses, Haley trains again to be a great gymnast, Joanne isn’t happy about it, but somehow a quartet of girls from VGA make it to the National Championships. But strange things are afoot at Nationals, namely that Burt’s girls do some great routines but don’t get the points they probably should be awarded. It seems the judges don’t like Burt that much and are penalizing his girls for it. Those rotten judges! But the gymnasts figure out a way to protest the judges’ scoring, and it’s supposed to be all uplifting, but really, it falls flat.

"Brink It On" became one of those movies that is cable-watchable for me, but I don’t think "Stick It" will have the same likeability factor in my book. I think the difference was that "Stick It" had to take a weird turn to preach it’s eventual message - that the scoring system for gymnastics is messed up, and it’s a message that really, unless you’re a gymnast, who cares? "Bring It On," though, built up the "Our team is better than your team but by the end of the movie we respect each other" theme which couldn’t be done for a movie like "Stick It."

The acting was okay, and Missy Peregrym isn’t bad to look at in tight outfits, but the movie just floating from one story arc to another and I really didn’t care. It’s 1 ½ stars out of 5 for "Stick It."

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!