The Bronze: An appealing comedy looking at a part of America only seen in Dan Bell's Dead Mall videos and during political campaigns about "Real America" . Gary Cole gives the standout performance as the put on dad sporting a Tom Skerritt mustache and the rest of the cast redeems themselves well. The film does bite off a bit more than it can chew trying to replicate two separate Olympic games and missing some easy targets involving NBC style coverage of same. Some might find the main character abrasive beyond redemption but the movie sells that redemption arc adequately. An overall fun film with some good laughs.

Haven't seen this type of movie since 1996 when Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) as young bowler with a promising career ahead of him has his bowling hand crippled. The bittersweet humour makes up a large part of The Bronze. Plus goofing on Americas soft porn love affair with Women's gymnastics. Haley Lu Richardson as Maggie makes any straight male have an instant school boy crush versus the raw foul-mouthed Hope. The Yin & Yang of comedy that has worked so well in other movies like House Bunny .I'm happy to see it resurrected even if it misfires on a few jokes. The movie starts off mean but gradually grows into an oddball comedy classic like Dodge Ball

Melissa Rauch wrote and stars in a crude comedy about a grumpy teenage former-gymnast who has to train a young gymnast.Watching Melissa Rauch in interviews, it was obvious to me she has a lot more to offer than her character in THE BIG BANG THEORY. In fact, she's the ONLY actress on this show who seem to play a character that is completely different from herself in real life while all the other actors basically play themselves. Same goes for Thomas Middleditch, whom I really like on SILICON VALLEY, but plays the same character (himself) in everything, including in this movie.Unfortunately, the movie isn't very interesting and Melissa's character is way too grumpy and hostile towards everyone around her for the viewer to sympathize with her character.Gary Cole (OFFICE SPACE) is good in the role of the patient father.

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.