Ice Girls

This is a solid outing in the figure skating / teen angst genre, but the whole family can enjoy it. Don't expect your teen sons to hang around, although as the girls are pretty they might, but otherwise that is one demographic this movie will not grab - not a big surprise.....

What I did find surprising is that Elvis Stojko is actually one of the character leads, but he does not get that billing when you view the credit summary. And he does a good job in his role, he is a much better actor then many of the performances I have endured in other movies recently. He is not a big guy (I think both the teen female leads were actually taller then he when they were all on skates) he looks like he could do well in a more action oriented role were he to take that on.

While not academy award material, and all the clichés including the domineering mother, the teen rivalry, etc are on full display, that does not take away from the fact the teen leads are all credible, appear to do most of their own skating, and nothing seemed too out of place or to stretch the imagination beyond reason.

Things wrap up a bit too neatly, but that is the way of Disney movies... a happy ending with skimpy plot devices (such as 2 separate budding romances) all falling aside without further thought once the budget has run out! In its genre, I give it a 6-6.5.

My wife and I enjoy figure skating movies, or some of them.

--Just about all figure skating movies have a LOT of drama with the sport of figure skating revolving around the drama. This movie has figure skating with the drama revolving around it --The focus is on the sport.

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Decent storyline with promise but there is something big lacking in this production.

Perhaps it is an issue with the director. Some of the actors are doing an average job, but most of them are terrible. The younger cast members will be better once they have a little more experience behind them, but they aren't the problem here. I expected much better and way more of Natasha Henstridge.

This could have been a brilliant family movie with a little more effort from everyone.

This movie truly sucked. It's bad. It's not a good movie, at all. I did enjoy watching it though because I had a good time making fun of it. There were dumb subplots and parts of the movie that didn't have anything to do with the story. Also the acting was subpar and the story was tired and just not good.

It's hard to find movies about skating that don't use stunt doubles. Real skaters. Sure, there are clunky parts acting wise, but seeing the actors doing their own "stunts" makes up for it.