The Bronze (2016)

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.

The story of a has-been crass and spoiled Olympic bronze medal gymnastic reluctantly turned coach, which along the way finds her way again. The plot is robust enough, though the idea that an Olympic medalist would become so spoiled and undisciplined seems a little weird to me. A nice cast, unusual subject matter and interesting characters all could have made for a good comedy. Unfortunately- this movie lacks the most important trait a comedy should have; it isn't funny. There are very little to no jokes, and the crass foul manners of the lead role become uninteresting very fast.Without being funny, the movie is left to it's bare devices. Fortunately most of the other aspects of the movie are not that bad- the acting is decent, the plot holds, the script is event filled and interesting enough to hold the viewers attention for the duration of the film, cinematography is good, and even in a specific moment (final exercise)- inspired. It's just such a shame the movie isn't funny... because all of the other elements combined only make for a very mediocre film, which I expect to completely forget by next week.

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".

I knew i wanted to see this film the minute i saw the previews. Like the title states, this is a pretty low budget film which is very similar to two Jon Heder films we've already seen, Napolean Dynamite and Blades of Glory. BUT this is very raunchy. I hadn't seen nor heard bad language like this since Hot tub Time Machine 2. But the film is fun to watch, and we see the dehabilitating effects drugs has on individuals.So as the story goes, there is a gymnast who had competed in the Olympics...not the 2002 Salt lake City ones, but 2004 if I remember correctly. This girl, the gymnast ends up winning a Bronze medal..hence what the title of this film is. Well, her coach dies and influences her in a letter to take the protégé that she had been training onto and into a compettitive level as good as she herself had once been.And thats where the film becomes even more interesting, not to mention that some of the stars are virtual unknowns...one of the top billings is an actor that stars in HBO's Silicon Valley.