Una segunda oportunidad

Poor acting and canned plot aside, this movie was the non toxic good fun it needed to be for an enjoyable movie night with my 8 year old. Recommended if you're looking for an easy watch with your kid and they love gymnastics. It's a simple predictable story about a girl with a lot of potential gaining the confidence to beat the odds. Maddy is a rising star gymnast but jealous teammates succeed at feeding her self doubts when they start believing she may be real competition. With the help of her upstart new coach, Maddie begins to set her sights on winning the upcoming national competition. It's not ruining anything to say she eventually gets there because it's what the movie is so clearly about. I could come up with a thousand reasons why I would never want to watch it again but seeing my daughter yelp with excitement and joy in all the right places made it all worth it.

This movie is a low budget flick without many worthwhile qualities. Everything about the movie is mediocre at best: the script, the acting, the directing, the music, and so on. The adult actors all hover at around run-of-the-mill level. The child actors go from not good to terrible. At times the acting is so cringe-worthily bad that even the most patient of us will think to turn it off. The script is really odd with a slowly-paced storytelling punctuated with unconvincing developments and silly training montages. This all comes to a predictable and ridiculously optimistic ending that not only misses the chance for a non-Hollywood story arc but takes the standard formula and makes it even more of a happy ending than usual in a Hollywood movie. I've seen truly awful movies and this isn't that bad but it's down there.

Movie was selected by a patient on an ambulance transport. 100% not my choice.

Writing was choppy and so disconnected I could barely follow the story. No character development, backstories were minimal or non-existent. Cinematography was poor at best. Framing of shots looked more like it was done by people in elementary school.

With as many as they did, this movie should have been named "Montage".

And the use of the blatant "Eye of the Tiger" ripoff was pointless drivel.

A Second Chance is such a classic movie for 2000s kids who were home sick. However, the acting isn't that good and the plot is weird. The rivalry over an accident that lasted more than a decade isn't that realistic. Although, this movie is good for that nostalgic gymnastics feels.

From an adult perspective its pretty poor, but the girls 5, 7 and 8 absolutely loved it and spent the next hour doing gymnastics around the house. The plot is predictable and the acting is average, at best. A good movie when you want to have a cuddle the kids and nap on the couch.