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Metascore
25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- A spry teenage comedy that gets everything right, Stick It takes the usual batch of underdogs, dirt bags, mean girls and bimbos and sends them somersaulting through happy clichés and unexpected invention.
- 83Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerA sports empowerment fantasy of the best kind.
- 50The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasSo along with being fake punk-rock, Stick It is also a fake protest movie. That leaves the only traces of genuineness to Bridges, who plays the coach with a fatherly patience that earns him a paycheck, but not the better film he deserves.
- 50Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneStick It reels from its own frenetic pace. The music is loud, the camera cuts are incessant and everything seems geared toward distracting us from what's going on onscreen. Which is not much.
- 50Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenLike "Bring It On," Stick It is so much better than most of its insipid teen-movie peers yet like her earlier movie, Bendinger's new one is also not all it might be.
- 50Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerPeregrym is a fresh-faced beauty and Bridges is enjoyably cranky, but the film is as bland as an Afterschool Special.
- 50L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonL.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonThe final meet felt eternal to me, but little girls may love it all, and even if they don't, they're almost sure to practice their handstands when they get home.
- 50USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigBridges actually does a fine job in an uninteresting role. But this chick flick is all about the attitudinal teenagers.
- 40Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustLos Angeles TimesKevin CrustThe film strives for some type of a girl-empowerment message that equates trading one type of conformity for another with self-determination but muffs the dismount and stumbles on the landing. In other words, it fails to Stick It.
- 30Washington PostStephen HunterWashington PostStephen HunterInstead of gold-medal-winning, last-minute heroics, the movie weirdly becomes about the scandal of arbitrary gymnastics judges. Is it a movie or an episode of "Real Sports"? It veers into fresh territory but not dramatically satisfying territory.