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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.

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.

It was a terrible experience. I dont know who edited it, but please take some editing classes.

I had to sit through this as a nanny, the kids decided to watch it, and I had to supervise. It was awful acting, script, soundtrack. Nothing about it is authentic. Even the kids got bored. It had potential to be an interesting film to inspire kids to be involved in the sport, but instead there was awful scripting, and acting that blundered its way through 90 minutes of pure rubbish. There is nothing of substance and I could go on and on about it. BUT I wont...because then I will end up being just as boring as the film. I felt the tacky lines and on the side romance was not necessary and the kids were not keen on it. It drags on and on, until we get to the big competition where lo and behold the predictability metre goes off the charts.

This film only reinforces stereotypes of the macho society. Women are weak, men are strong. Women are dumb, men are smart. Women are emotional, men are rational. film. The world is not just about winning. The film also reinforces other stereotypes as the rich are bad and the poor always have to sacrifice to achieve success belong to the world. The performances are poor, the script is poor, edition is poor. It could have been a story about how to overcome the obstacles, limits, etc. But instead it only focuses on the difference between being man or woman. Besides all that, it is no dynamic, is not entertaining and due to the structure of the script it ends up being so predictable. I would not let my children watch this.

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.

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.

If you are expecting a big blockbuster movie than this is not the movie for you. Instead what you will get is a nice little Australian movie. Don't expect much from it and you will be happily rewarded. Granted the story is a little run of the mill and predictable but then again most family movies are so why should this one be any different?

The acting is not of the highest standard but it is acceptable enough to watch and accept their performances as a passing grade. As to the gymnastics side of the equation I am not really an expert but while again it wasn't of the highest standard it did seem passable enough for me and didn't really affect the movie in any way.

I may be a touch biased as this is one of my daughters favourite films but I have watched it a few times with her now and each time I have found it as enjoyable as the last so I have no problem in recommending it to anyone who may be thinking about giving this film a try.

If I have to have any real gripe about the movie is the fact that it had to many side stories going on that never really got much time to develop them fully. They tried to give all the characters backstories but never really gave us a chance to understand much about those stories. It is only a minor gripe which again doesn't really take away much from the movie so take it however you feel.

Very pretentious but some nice messages in the script just so tacky and corny. Completely ripped-off from similar genre films.

Direction is ok but the acting is shocking. The adults look like they had a crash-course at Neighbours.

Very rich lifestyle film. Very dull. Unbelievable corny script. Not sure how this got a budget. Terrible.

The actors are more monotonous than siri. The kids sound bored. I am bored. Good story garbage actors. I would rather watch this movie dubbed by siri.

I sat through this with my 5 year old. It was painful. So very, very painful. The 'gymnastics bits' were ok and enough to inspire, but wow the superfluous school playground storylines outside of the gymnastics is so poor; so stereotypical and badly written. The acting in general is also very very poor; even from the adults! Actually, the adults are worse than the kids and harder to watch. Some of the adult characters also behave like kids in a very non-funny way. And who did the editing OMG! I will not encourage my daughter to watch this again, and even if she begs me, I'll be in another room!

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.

A aussie movie that isn't Yahoo Serious' unfunny swill or Mad Max. A young girl has a second chance a pre-olympics tournament to qualify for the National Squad. However she is lacking in the pre-requisite physique. She works with her coaches to help her prepare mentally and physically for this trial.

As an amature who has never practiced gymnastics before the actress who plays Maddy picked up enough skills. The point is that it's a children's movie designed to convey a tail of resilience. Critics of this movie want her to be level 3 gymnastics for an actress who has never done the sport before.

I happened to catch this movie on a Christian TV channel recently. Although there is no overt religious messaging, the movie has a positive, moral story line and is 'clean' (no sex, violence), making it suitable for kids and for adults who are tired of skin, guts, and gore. Some reviewers may consider the movie 'milquetoast', but I considered it a pleasant respite from the worldly messaging too often promoted in TV, music, and movies today. I intend to purchase this as a Christmas gift for my granddaughter who is a gymnast.

A little bit 'semplyfied' but nice for an ex gymnast.. I'm a trainer... and I'll propose it to my gymnast 😊