Whip It [Blu-ray]
by Drew Barrymore
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Actor: Drew Barrymore, Ellen Page, Kristen Wiig, Sarah Habel, Shannon EagenDirector: Drew Barrymore
Brand: Fox
Producer: Drew Barrymore
Producer: Barry Mendel
Producer: Chris Miller
Producer: Jason Lust
Producer: Joseph Drake
Producer: Karyn McCarthy
Writer: Shauna Cross
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
Published: 2010-01-01
Blu-ray Release Date: 2010-01-26
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Whip It [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Whip It Good!
Summary: 5 Stars
WHIP IT is a very well done, quirky, surprisingly enjoyable teen film that works for adults, too. My husband and I watched this with our 12 ½ year old daughter, and we all liked this movie very much. With little gore and mild sex that is more referred to than shown, WHIP IT is definitely refreshing and fun.
WHIP IT is the story of Bliss, a seventeen-year-old diner waitress in a backwater town near Austin, Texas. Bliss is basically a good girl, doing everything her overbearing mother asks, including competing in (and often winning) beauty pageants. But Bliss really wants to make more of her life, and to find her own path. When she finds a flyer advertising a Roller Derby match in Austin, she and her best friend sneak out to the big city and have an adventure. Something about the Roller Derby and the women who compete strike a chord in Bliss, and one of the teams invites her to try out. Before she quite knows what is happening, Bliss makes the team and becomes a Hurl Scout. Bliss then has many life decisions to make, each of which has significant consequences. Can Bliss find the path that will make her truly happy?
Ellen Page is delightful and dead on as Bliss. I really like the heart and soul that Ellen puts into her characters. The rest of the cast is excellent and equally talented (including director Drew Barrymore, Marcia Gay Harden, and Kristen Wiig), but Ellen Page truly carries this film. WHIP IT is well paced, slow and thoughtful where appropriate, yet full of excitement and great action at the Roller Derby. And I always like the messages from Ms. Barrymore's films...girls can do anything. Something I definitely want to instill in my 12 ½ year old.
WHIP IT is a unique combination of sports action, teen coming of age, and family genres that works and works really well. It was great evening together for my entire family, and a movie we are still talking about. WHIP IT is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Summary of Whip It [Blu-ray]
Hang onto your helmet and get ready to break away from the pack! Ellen Page scores huge laughs as Bliss Cavendar, a small-town teenager with a big dream: to find her own path in the world. Tired of following in her family?s footsteps of compliance and conformity, Bliss discovers a way to put her life on the fast track...literally. She lands a spot on a rough-and-tumble roller derby team and becomes ?Babe Ruthless? ? the hottest thing on eight wheels! Co-starring Drew Barrymore (in her feature film directorial debut), Marcia Gay Harden, Juliette Lewis, Daniel Stern and Jimmy Fallon, Whip It is a triumphant, free-spirited comedy loaded with high-speed action and nonstop fun!- Audio: English: 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio / Spanish: 5.1 Dolby Digital / French: 5.1 Dolby Digital
- Language: Dubbed: English, French & Spanish / Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
- Theatrical Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 2.40:1
Drew Barrymore makes her bow as a director with this Roller Derby coming-of-age number, which shares the spirit of so many of Barrymore's movies: it's loosey-goosey, cheerful, and buoyant in waving its "Girls Rule!" flag. On screen, Barrymore relegates herself to a slapstick supporting role, handing the lead to Juno gal Ellen Page. Page plays a Texas teen with a yen to join Austin's Roller Derby squad, complete with new professional moniker Babe Ruthless, but she'll have to keep the side career secret from her beauty-pageant-obsessed Mom (Marcia Gay Harden) and football-watchin' Dad (Daniel Stern). A coming-of-age tale emerges between bouts of skating on the RD track (Jimmy Fallon plays the goofy Derby announcer), with a dash of romance added in the form of a generic Dude in a Band. Kristen Wiig does surrogate-mom duty as a teammate, Juliette Lewis is appropriately out-there as a track rival, and Andrew Wilson (bro of Owen and Luke) gets some hilariously poker-faced lines in as the team's coach. All the pleasant stuff makes you almost overlook how ramshackle the movie is, and how standard-issue the parental tensions (even if Harden is a total pro, as always). Ellen Page doesn't offer the innate audience-friendly cuddliness of Barrymore herself--thus her apt casting as Juno's brittle heroine--but her rapt focus is something to behold. "Babe Ruthless" indeed. --Robert Horton
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