Stick It (DVD)

I am afraid I have to disagree gracefully with the other review on this DVD. I love this DVD and it is in my top three of all time. If you are not a professional gymnast then you won't notice the tiny adjustments they had to make so the actors could balance on the apparatus You cannot tell where the stunt doubles start and the actors begin. This film is most definitely not original. Hailie (Missy Peregrym) plays a retired gymnast that walked out on her last competition costing her team everything. As the story unfolds you realise that she had her reasons and wasn't just being a moody teenager. She is very mature for seventeen years old and the film is very ...  Read the complete review

~~ Nasty Gym Sticks ~~ If you're a gymnastics buff, you're probably well aware of the other gym films out there. There's Perfect Body (which only ever made it onto Region 1 DVD) and the everso similar Little Girls In Pretty Boxes (which languishes on Channel 5 / the Hallmark Channel and never got its deserved DVD release). There's a dubious one called American Anthem from the mid 1980s that was out on VHS. If you're willing to expand the gym theme to tumbling and dancing, there's also Sugar and Spice, and the 4 Bring It Ons (the latest was released on Boxing Day 2007), but these are cheerleading themed rather than "proper" gym. For a sport with such ...  Read the complete review