The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold

Jackie Dorsey (Christy Romano) is the daughter of 1992 Winter Olympics Gold medalists Kate Moseley and Doug Dorsey. Moira Kelly and D.B. Sweeney don't return, and the roles are played by different actors. During the US Open, she does an unnecessary risky move, and gets a career threatening injury. While desperately refusing to retire, she switches from single to pairs enlisting the help of inline skater and potential boyfriend Alex Harrison (Ross Thomas).

It's disappointing to have the connection to the first movie but not the actors to maintain that connection. Christy Romano and Ross Thomas are trying to recreate the chemistry of the first movie. They're not quite up to that level especially Ross Thomas. He's a pretty boy without twinkle in his eyes. This also stars Scottie (Ryan Hansen) as his best friend.

This movie was truly a disappointment. I absolutely loved the first one, and would definitely give it 10 stars! When I heard that there was a second one, I was really happy, and thought that I might enjoy it just as much as I enjoyed the first one. Well, I definitely did not!! Maybe if you just decided to watch this one and not the first one, you might like it, but to have watched the first one, and then this one, this should be a disappointment! First off they basically just copy lines and scenes from the first one, which makes it even worse, because the scenes aren't good in this movie. I have many other reasons, but to make it easier, it just wasn't good!! I mean I'm a girl who watches a lot of chick flicks, even bad ones and actually enjoy some of them! This one was horrible; so please, if your interested in this type of movie watch the first one, it is way better, funnier, and I promise you that you will enjoy it a lot more than you would enjoy this one!

The featured comment that gives an "A+++ for good clean fun" to this film is written like a studio authored press blurb. I'm a little suspicious of the author as I just saw the DVD and I can say that this film competes with "Highlander II: The Quickening" as the worst sequel ever. I was a fan of Christy Romano until this movie. Mostly because she is hot, but also because she acts with so much energy. She had the acting breadth of a soap actress in this film. She projected three emotions; bemused, upset and completely blank, and used them over and over again, sometimes inappropriately. That would be fine for a half an hour TV show, but it was a snore here. It was like she took the Ren Stevens character from "Even Stevens", renamed her Jackie and threw her into this film. Ross Thomas did a good job of playing a "dude" character, but every non-skating scene between the two was dragged down by Ms. Romano's Jackie. As to the film itself, it played like an episode of "Baywatch" complete with montages of unrelated people and things used to transition to the next scene and pop songs in the background that drown out the actors dialog. It's "Baywatch" on ice. What a shame.

For what it was, it was OK...a lot like the original movie especially with the spoiled-ness and getting everything handed to her. The same on the flipping the skirt up. It did clear up the ending of the original when it was left unclear whether or not Kate and Doug medaled after their program. I did think perhaps the original Kate and Doug would have captured more attention and maybe made the ratings a little better. Little disappointed on the new Christy Carlson-R...hard to see her go from a sweet innocent girl to a girl drinking and swearing. But who was Luanne in the movie? I had seen Christine Larkin in "Step By Step" but didn't recognize her in this movie. And who played Kate? I didn't see her character listed in the cast credits...maybe someone can shed some light on this.

The answer to this is Stephanie Kramer from the Hunter show. She does not show up on the credits on this site but if you look at her picture it is her. I do not if she did appear on the movie credits but I did love Hunter when it was on television and was very happy to see her in a movie. On the topic of the movie, I was rather disappointed that they did not explain more about how Kate and Doug got to the marriage and having their daughter skate as they did. I did find the scene with Alex learning to skate in front of the very young girls quit familiar as I once had to fall down in front of much younger skaters. Though he managed better then I did by accually learning to skate.