Let’s face it, I would’ve seen anything that came with the label “Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut” on it, but I won’t deny I was a little, “ugh” when it turned out to be a movie about skating with Ellen Page in it. I look back on that me and smile pityingly. This is as joyous as you’d expect, a truly old-school “follow your dreams” tale with colourful (and quite surprisingly violent at times) skate scenes a plenty. There’s really not much more to say than that: it aspires to little more than being mildly inspiration but mostly kinetic fun and Drew proves herself more than capable behind the camera. If you’re as crazy about anybody involved as much as I am crazy for Drew (my heart leapt when I realised she was actually in front of the camera too, along with another fave of mine Juliette Lewis), then that’s icing on the cake (which is probably all squished from being thrown at somebody in the movie’s most Drew-ish scene lol).

Tags: cuties, following your dreams, rollerderby

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