No, this isn’t particularly unique. Yes, it is Disney schlock. But, it is well put together and I still like these cheesy Teen Girl Makes Good at Dancing or Skating or Some such movies. Perhaps the unfulfilled fantasies of an uncoordinated and out-of-shape American female?

Anyway (!), I thought that Michelle Trachtenberg did a good job as the lead teen and that the story was sufficiently heartwarming and believable, if utterly predictable. I felt that one different and positive element to this particular story was that the girl was a Physics geek who used her understanding of aerodynamics to help her skate. I also liked that she worked really hard to make her dream happen, rather than the version where it all just falls in their lap because it’s American and they’re pretty and deserve it.