Mildly engaging and easily forgotten

Rating: 6/10 (6 January 2017)

Reviewed May 2010
There is nothing on display that is either new or would impress you as what we expect from a director's debut - fresh ideas.
It follows a template structured narrative style that is visible in most movies of this genre and tries to emphasize similar values as following the passion or about friendship, love lost and gain etc. Just a few working formulas are chosen, a new backdrop picked and hashed into a movie. Out of all these what goes right here is that they don't do a bad job at it.
I have admired Ellen Page's performance in Juno and she is only getting better at it and this movie also features a host of good supporting performances too. The roller derby scenes could have been done a lot better and when I saw that Kiwi stunt woman I thought we are in here for a treat of sequences. There is absolutely nothing from her and overall a bit too disappointing.
It's a movie where you don't get bored and the performances try to connect with you for a bit, but by the end memory of the movie fades away quickly.