Excellent, a Must See

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I'm appalled by the amount of foul language, and lack of morals and values.I have young children that enjoy gymnastics and I would not want them to view this show. Overuse of the "F" bomb. A coach that is a horrible mentor. Promotes sex at young ages. Not funny. I'd rather the producer's focus on inspiring up coming Olympic athletes without the sexual innuendo's.

In some ways, "The Bronze" is so entertaining because Melissa Rauch is playing someone in diametric opposition to her mousy character on "The Big Bang Theory". Hope Gregory is the sort of Olympics washout that's fun to laugh at; a foul-mouthed brat who trades in her local celebrity for free stuff at the mall. Rauch really plays the Midwestern accent to the hilt, and it pairs very nicely with the coarse dialogue.Somewhere in all of this is a sports movie, but that's not where it excels. This character ends up right back where she started, and it works great as an exaggerated portrait of a has-been in a no-name town. This flew completely under my radar, and I was surprised (happily) by how enjoyable it was.She's very funny.7/10

'THE BRONZE': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five) An indie sports comedy about a former gymnastics bronze medal winner, that's still milking her celebrity status (in her hometown in Ohio) several years later. Her life suddenly changes when she's pressured into coaching a new up-and-coming local gymnastics star, who she sees as a threat to her stardom. The movie stars Melissa Rauch (of 'THE BIG BANG THEORY' fame); who also co-wrote the script with her husband Winston (the two are debut feature screenwriters). It was directed by Bryan Buckley (in his feature directorial debut as well), and it was executive produced by the Duplass brothers. The movie costars Haley Lu Richardson, Thomas Middleditch, Sebastian Stan, Gary Cole and Cecily Strong. It's received mostly poor reviews from critics, and it only received a limited theatrical run at the Box Office. I found it to be a somewhat funny, and well made film. Rauch plays Hope Ann Gregory, a former gymnastics star who won the bronze medal; despite a career ending injury. As an adult she still lives at home, with her father Stan (Cole), in Amherst, Ohio. She's treated like a celebrity by all of the locals, while she does absolutely nothing with her life; and continues to take advantage of her father (who she also steals from regularly). When the opportunity comes up to coach another talented local gymnast, named Maggie (Richardson), Hope is disgusted by the idea (she also fears that Maggie will replace her as the local town hero). She reluctantly agrees to the job, when she thinks she can make a large amount of money doing so. The movie is very darkly comedic, and quite raunchy, but it also has some heart. Despite the film seeming somewhat like slapstick humor, at times, the characters also ring pretty true, and they actually seem like real people. Rauch is fantastic in the lead; and her and her husband did a great job writing a clever, and somewhat insightful, script. Despite everything positive the movie has going for it, it's still not that funny (or that emotional); at least not as much as it seems like it possibly could have been. The film settles for the bronze, when it could have gone for the gold!

I did not enjoy "The Bronze", though the premise sounded very promising and the film could have worked. The main character, Hope (Melissa Rauch) was thoroughly despicable--super-crude, nasty, self-absorbed and without redeeming qualities. And, this tended to make the film a very one-note sort of viewing experience...something that wouldn't have happened had the film either been a short or if there was more to the movie than that. As it is, it's a hard movie to like or even enjoy.Hope is a woman who won a Bronze medal back in 2004. Since then, she's done nothing with her life and she spends her time feeling sorry for herself, stealing, masturbating, doing drugs, treating everyone around her like dirt as well as living as if the world owes her. When her old coach kills herself, Hope is given a chance to do something with her life....to coach a young gymnastic hopeful to glory. However, at first, Hope just wants to destroy her new charge and gets her using drugs, overeating and making a mess of herself. Later, very inexplicably, she kinds of takes her job seriously....and becomes nice, sort of. What's to come of all this? And, more importantly, does anyone even care or does this make any sense?When I read the reviews for this film, I was very surprised that most seemed reasonably positive and the film has an overall score of 5.9....not good but certainly not terrible. Well, I thought the film was rather terrible...mostly because Hope was so unremittingly awful and unlikable...and this went on and on and on. The woman is ONLY a jerk and her language would make Joe Pesci's character in "Good Fellas" blush. Crudeness and nastiness alone do not make a good comedy--especially after the novelty of it all quickly wears off. And, for me, it wore off very quickly and the film repeatedly comes CLOSE to being funny but almost never does it connect. By the way, despite my strongly disliking the film and how crude it was, oddly, the funniest moment was the dirtiest--with one of the funniest and most acrobatic sex scenes in film history. I say watch that scene and ignore the rest. Also, if you want to see a similar sort of sports comedy that works, try "Blades of Glory".