The Power of Cheese

I will fully admit it: I am a sucker for a cheesy movie. Give me schmaltz about the teen/young-20-something dancer/gymnast/artist/singer/what have you who takes the big risk and overcomes x/y/z to achieve his or her dream while, of course, meeting the love of his/her young life (or just discovering that people as a rule don't suck) and I'm there.

Recently, idle channel flipping while Tim has been working crazy hours and the kiddo is asleep has paid off in piles of cheesy goodness that I just have to share.

First up, Stick It. This falls into the gymnast/rebel category. It's the story of a world champion gymnast who, after killing her career by walking out of worlds, gets into trouble with the law and is sentenced to, you guessed it, train at a gym with a world famous gymnast who is going to give her the discipline she needs. It's everything you think it could be and more. I guarantee you will sit there and quote the words before they say them because it's just that cheesy-good. As a bonus, you have Jeff Bridges playing the role of the coach and seriously channeling Starman. So much cheese, you could run a nachos stand at the Superbowl.

Next is Center Stage: Turn it Up. Because Center Stage wasn't enough cheese, they made a sequel. Seriously - who knew this? In this rendition, you have the wanna be ballerina who doesn't make the cut for the ABA helping a lisping, earringed former hockey player now ballerina (what do they call male ballet dancers...it can't be ballerina, but I don't know what else it should be) learn club dancing. He helps her train to reapply for the ABA, but she chickens out. Then her little sister hops on the bus (alone) and comes to see her and is devastated to find out she didn't make the ABA but then, because she believes in her sister, she coerces her to try out for a Broadway production of Cinderella. Does she get the lead? Only watching will reveal. (Ok, you know she does. It's that kind of movie. She also gets the lisping hockey player.) There's enough cheese here to keep Philly in sandwiches for a year.

I have seen listed, but not yet managed to actually see, that there are two sequels to the Cutting Edge as well. Those promise cheesy goodness and they are on my list to find at some point.

I used to mock Tim for his love of B Sci-Fi/Horror movies like Silent Night, Deadly Night and RobotJox, and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians...but I guess I really don't have much room anymore. Same cheese, different flavor.