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All parent reviews for Whip It
Average rating based on 15 parent reviews:
- 67% say there are positive role models
- 67% say there are positive messages
- 53% say sexual content is an issue
- 40% say there's too much drinking, drugs, or smoking
- 33% say language is an issue
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Great, funny, entertaining movie for the family with older kids.
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So Good It's Worth Navigating the Tricky Parts
Funny and positive messages -- Ellen Page character is quirky but works through her issues with her parents. A wonderful movie. I plan to take my 11 year old daughter, now that I saw it with another adult.
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Girl empowerment
A good girl-empowerment movie appropriate for teens and tweens. While there is a bit of sexual content and drinking, those events aren't glamorized. (The main character regrets having sex with someone she didn't know well enough, and the underaged drinking gets the characters in a lot of trouble.)
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Fun action & good message for older girls. Otherwise, nothing special.
I myself was amused, but not overly-engaged by this one. The derby stuff is neat, but the story is pretty rote. This would be appropriate for older teens, and does have an underlying positive message for girls regarding being true to yourself.
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OK for older teens innapropriate for younger teens.
Other than the high school girls lying, sneaking off to party all night with a guy from a band, drinking to the pointof puking, breaking into a building, and sex it was a great movie for young teens.
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Great movie and really gives young women other media portrayed roles other than the mainstream.
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Pleasantly Surprised!
I had no idea what to expect, but I liked it a lot. I think a mature teenager (especially one in public school) would be able to handle everything the movie threw at them. No graphic sex, minimal if any blood, and language that is probably no worse than what the kids see written on the bathroom stalls.
The main character lies to her parents, but faces the consequences. Her friend drinks (Bliss doesn't) and gets arrested for it. Bliss gives her virginity to a guy she thinks she knows and loves, and he cheats on her and doesn't call her afterwards. All very realistic things teens do, and all very realistic consequences. We were a little embarrassed by some of the sexual content, but there was nothing graphic, and it was mostly because it was unexpected.
It wasn't a stereotypical sports film, and I absolutely loved that. There were several pleasant surprises that kept me pulled into the movie. It felt... realistic in a good way, much like Juno. I think a world-savvy teen will be fine watching it, and my aunt swears it was perfectly appropriate to her two young girls, who probably were too young to get most of the jokes and drug scenes.
Great movie.
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Fun! But, of course, some objectionable content.
I really enjoyed Whip It. I wish fun movies like this didn't have to have all the cussing (and this one has some) and the seemingly obligatory premarital teenage sex scene (at least this one isn't real explicit), but this movie sadly does have both, so be aware. That said, I did enjoy the story and the roller derby stuff. I used to live in Austin and almost got into the whole roller derby scene, but I didn't. This movie kind of makes me wish I had! Looks like a blast!
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Perfect for the Teenage Girl
It was an excellent movie one of my top 10. I bought it as soon as I saw a copy of it on the shelves. It really is an excellent movie and it is all about doing what you want for you not for anyone else. It is about independence, making mistakes, and most of all learning from those mistakes. It is an excellent movie for all teen girls to see but especially for girls about to leave for college. For that age group it has a whole different meaning and will really help them appreciate what they have at home as well as help them really discover who they are. Mild sexual material but all in all it really isn't that bad. I wouldn't take a 10 year old to see it but all in all it's very well rated at PG-13.
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Whip It Review
This movie was just amazing. I love Ellen Page she does a great job in this movie. This movie is about a 17 year old girl named Bliss Cavender who has to do beauty pagents- she hates beauty pagents. So one day she goes to a shoe store with her mom and she discovers these fliers that say " Roller Durby". but the problem is that you have to be 21 and older. But when she signs up she lies and says she is 22. See the movie! it's really good. All this movie really has is fighting scenes, breif language and sexual content ( but with no nudity) But this movie does have a great morel. This movie inspired me a lot and I always watch this movie over and over agian. But one day i saw this movie at the Hotel Del with my friends. It really made me think that " this is one of the best movies I ever seen". and Ellen Page is awesome.
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good for 16+bad for 15-
I really liked this movie but personally i think it wasn't age appropiate for my 13 year old cousin
i think this is a 16+ movie
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Great for ages 10 and up, a few iffy things, but overall great!
As long as you have good communication with your child and feel comfortable talking about a few questionable things that happen in the movie, it is great. Encouraging, fun, unique characters...
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Not the greatest flick, and not good for tweens or younger.
The acting was lame from everyone except the main girl and her best friend. The action was very choreographed and staged. A 17 yr old girls shouldn't be shown making out in a pool with an older guy nor should she be drinking alcohol. Not a positive example.
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