Whip It!

Just got Whip It on DVD. I seriously love this movie. I am a huge fan of roller derby so I was excited to see this. After seeing it I am amazed at how good it really is. Of course the story line was great but the casting was just so so so amazing. It is def. one of those feel good movies that makes you smile. Bliss Cavendar has grown unhappy with the apparent small-town Texas life of Friday night football and beauty pageant competition. She commiserates with her best friend Pash at their waitressing jobs. Pash has a plan to get out, she is applying to Ivy League schools. Bliss just wants to get out and needs a plan and a calling. She finds it during a shopping trip to Austin, Texas where she picks up a flyer for a Roller Derby event. Schemes to attend, gets invited to try out and becomes Babe Ruthless, her alter-ego roller derby character. She makes the team, lies about her age, works hard to succeed. She experiences her first love with the young lead singer of an Indie rock band which doesn't turn out for the best. Bonds with her new family of roller derby girls, fights with her mother to escape the beauty pageant and live her new dream as roller derby star. She manages to reconcile all of this, impress and win over her parents and friends, and charts an ambiguous goal to move to Austin, continue with Roller Derby, and live her new life. Just so amazing! I give this movie a 10. Also the soundtrack is really good as well. Check out the movie and the soundtrack!