{"id":2285,"date":"2009-10-06T11:21:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T17:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2009-10-06T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T17:21:03","slug":"movie-review-whip-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=2285","title":{"rendered":"Movie review: Whip It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Movie Review: <em>Whip It<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>BY MAGGIE SCOTT<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Drew Barrymore is a charming young lady and a vivacious actress who\u2019s a veteran in front of the camera after more than 20 years in the motion picture industry.  Winning personality and natural acting abilities have assured her of steady work, plenty of fans and positive critics.<br \/>\nAfter taking a chance and stepping out of her comfort zone, Barrymore can now call herself director with the release of Whip It, a coming-of-age story it\u2019s easy to imagine Barrymore strongly identifying with, because its heroine, Bliss Cavendar (Ellen Page), is a rebel\u2026albeit, an unassuming one who doesn\u2019t leave any destruction in the wake of  her struggles to pursue her dream.<br \/>\nIn the backwater of Bodeen, Texas, it\u2019s not hard for teens like Bliss and her sidekick, Pash (Alia Shawkat), to realize that they may be experiencing the height of their town\u2019s culture at the Oink Joint (\u201cHome of the Squealer\u201d), serving up barbecue food and fixings.<\/p>\n<p>Although they are decent people and have solid middle-class jobs, Bliss\u2019s parents (Marcia Gay Harden and Daniel Stern) aren\u2019t exactly role models for living outside the box.  Mom wants daughter to follow in her beauty pageant competition footsteps, even though the experience didn\u2019t lead Mrs. Cavendar any further than a job as a mail-carrier with the U.S. postal service.<\/p>\n<p>Awakening to the realization that she wants more and she wants different, Bliss, nonetheless remains restlessly respectful of her mother\u2019s pageant hopes. She never acts out in any way more shocking than letting Pash give her hair cerulean blue highlights right before stepping up to the pageant mike to complete the sentence, \u201cIf I could have dinner with anyone\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That changes when Mom and daughter travel to Austin to go shopping, and Bliss sets mesmerized eyes on two of the members of a ladies roller derby team.  Bliss sneaks out to attend a match, and\u2026she\u2019s hooked.  Lying about her age, Bliss tells Maggie Mayhem (SNL\u2019s Kristen Wiig) she wants a chance to try out for the Hurl Scouts.<\/p>\n<p>Winning over their skeptical coach, Razor (Andrew Wilson), and demonstrating some skill and nerve for one of the key moves in roller derby&#8212;the \u201cwhip\u201d&#8212;Bliss is taken under the Scouts\u2019 wings and bestowed with one of the defining elements of a roller derby skater: a snazzy name.<\/p>\n<p>Now known as Babe Ruthless, Bliss can hold her own with the women sporting such monikers as Jabba the Slut, Rosa Sparks, Eve of Destruction and Smashley Simpson. Concealing her new life from the folks gets even more complicated when Bliss falls for Oliver (Landon Pigg), a rock musician.  With every confidence-boosting moment, whether it\u2019s knocking the captain (Juliette Lewis) of the Scouts\u2019 rivals&#8212;the Holy Rollers&#8212;off her skates, or joining Oliver in a swimming pool\u2019s deep end for a sensual underwater ballet, Bliss is closer to being able to admit to her parents that for her there\u2019s going to be more to life than being the winner of the Blue Bonnet Pageant.<\/p>\n<p>Bliss\u2019s winsome charm never evolves beyond stubbornly one-dimensional; the roller derby scenes could have used a heaping helping of blood and guts; and Barrymore should have sat through a couple screenings of a classic of small-town Texas life&#8212;The Last Picture Show&#8212;for some inspiration on how to inject some \u201cdeep in the heart of Texas\u201d grit into this well-mannered directorial debut.<\/p>\n<p>A Mandate Pictures production, Fox Searchlight release, rated PG-13 for sexual content, language and drug material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie Review: Whip It BY MAGGIE SCOTT Drew Barrymore is a charming young lady and a vivacious actress who\u2019s a veteran in front of the camera after more than 20 years in the motion picture industry. 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