Whip It
Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, is your typical coming-of-age tale that you would expect from any niche film like this. When it comes to originality please look elsewhere, but formulaic perfection is achieved here bringing you equal parts action and teen angst. Ellen Page plays, well Ellen Page as a young a-social teenager who can only express herself through roller derby games.
The whole movie tries to show how undesirable it is to do what is so desirable to the masses. Drew Barrymore and Juliette Lewis bring their star quality, B+ games to the screen as teammates and rivals to the upcoming roller derby champ played by Page’s Ellen character. This film will be widely appreciated by people between the ages of 10-16, and people who enjoy a good roller derby flick that wasn’t made as an exploitation film in the seventies.
