Whip It – The Movie

I had last Friday off and so after we dropped  SuperPizzaBoy off at his school we ate breakfast and then went to see Whip It. It sounded mildly interesting to me but I really wanted to see Zombieland. I mean Drew Barrymore as a director. Cmon.
Well we made the right choice. The movie is great. Ellen Page plays a lonely little slacker girl who resists the beauty pageant ideas that her mom has. Somehow she ends up at a Roller Derby tryout and makes the team. Then it turns out that she is good at it.
Ms. Page does great but the Roller Derby girls are the stars of this film. They strut, swagger, swear, cuss, drink, and fight. Drew Barrymore even has a roleas a skater and it looks she is having fun!!
The movie makes a head fake towards a cheap teenage romance, coming of age type thing, but gets back to the skating.
I rate it four out of four. Go see it. Check out the web site. You can find out what your roller derby girl name is. Mine is “Valentine Thumper.” You can get a roller derby poster made with a picture you upload but I couldn’t get it to work. “Ugly fat guy detection software” in place?
This movie is fun. If you like football and hockey, you will love this movie. If you like to see girls fight, you will like this movie.

6 thoughts on “Whip It – The Movie”

  4. ♥Kathy♥

    LOL Yogi great review of the movie. Had to go find out my Derby name:
    Honey Chompsky
    Heck I might be good at this derby thing! I can swear and cuss worse than most truckers. 😉

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