This is the story of Bliss (Ellen Page) who feels caught someplace between her last film “Juno” and another film “Little Miss Sunshine.” Bliss is a sweet high school student outside of Austin, Texas. Her mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is a die hard 1950s woman who shoves a beauty pageant agenda down her daughter’s throat. One day Bliss visits Austin to see a woman’s roller derby a.k.a. “Mean Girls’ on wheels. And that might where the problems begin. Holly Rollers (Juliette Lewis) feels like “Natural Born Killers” on skates. Drew Barrymore does a great job in her directorial debut behind the camera while also playing Smashley Simpson in the rink, but I never really relate to her. When Bliss begins practice-skating on her Barbie roller blades, she dubs herself “Babe Ruthless.” Soon after there’s a cute boy (in a boy band) and he’s played by the adorable and talented Landon Pigg (buy his CD “Coffee Shop” and you’ll love him, too.) But if one can only love a movie because of an unknown singer, well, geez… Belive me, we want to like these women – you know, go sista and all that but Page’s character seems misplaced. She’s not the aggressive type to begin with so it seems odd that she’d end up in a combat sport. Further, we laugh at these women, but we never quite care about them. Two tiaras
