Drew Barrymore's Whip It isn't a revelation, but fans of the aspirational sports comedy/drama probably won't do better this season, critics forecast:
- The film is "hard to mock and easy to like." Though it won't "change the way you think about movies, roller derby or the relations between teenage girls and their mothers, friends or dreams," AO Scott writes in the New York Times, "it does invite you to stop and appreciate all those things."