Anyone else hate the ending (spoilers)?

1. Compared to how Tommy Gunn treated Rocky Balboa in Rocky 5 she was not so bad.

2. The least she could have done was not flake out on her scheduled appearance in the mall. She should have returned to her hometown for a hero's welcome that would have helped keep the gym by drawing publicity, the gym that trained her to be a pro, THEN after having a heart to heart with her former coach said a proper goodbye. She found on by watching tv.

3. The girl was a hypocrite. She had out of wedlock sex that led to pregnancy yet proported to be a devout Christian.

4. Was she even 18? The age of consent is 18 in California and unless the pregnancy happened at a later date she is a victim of statutory rape.

5. How UNPROFESSIONAL is that??? A coach should never have sex with someone while they are coaching them and helping them manage an athletic career. That guy was a sleazebag A$$hole and I hope he got saddled with enough child support payments to bankrupt him.

I agree OP. Lance isn't shown perving for her--he's legitimately concerned for her career throughout the movie. Furthermore if he was the type to diddle with his charges, it paints his relationship with the other star gymnast (his protégé, don't remember her name) in a nasty light, and I never got any read from him like that. Furthermore the implications for sexual abuse of a minor from a trusted authority figure (a coach) and is played as a gotcha throwaway joke.

The ending was just a rotten cherry on top of a sh*t sundae.

I agree. I liked the movie a lot, but didn't like that at all.

I gotta apologize to some bitches. I'm forever changed by what I've seen here.

Just a very lazy and basic ending.

Ha Ha... The girl who left couldn't compete any more and that should show her.

The awful person through the whole movie now has a heart of gold.

Pretty much like we've seen in every movie like this. But the other's posting are spot on that most of the ending didn't fit the way their characters were presented throughout the movie. It feels like stuff was edited out to get to the ending quicker.

Why was the mom suddenly made up? She didn't seem to care about any of that.
Why was Maggie saying goodbye to her "idol"? She had the chance to do that earlier and made a stand not to to that.
Why the pregnancy angle? A drug scandal or an accident would have been better. Why not just get breasts like Hope?
Why can't Hope have at least one good student? The movie shows her to be a good coach.

And while we're figuring out the ending -- where did hope get all of the uniforms? I guess she had them from her days as a gymnast, but couldn't the film had taken 20 seconds to show her grabbing the box out of a garage or something?

I really wanted to like this movie but the Hope character was too over the top. Wearing the same warm up suit every day is supposed to be funny? She is mean to every single person she has contact with. Wouldn't have have been better to have her be "fake nice" to people to get what she wanted?

Since this is a sports movie I was expecting the old "the town has turned against you so straighten up" story line. But the whole town was crap if it let that behavior last.

the idea of a former gymnast/star/whatever trying to live off of their past glory could have been done so much better. I didn't laugh once and just found the whole thing to be another sad attempt to make a raunchy comedy and missing that point that there has to equal amount of attention paid to big-picture story as to the number of f-bombs you drop.

i can't say i hated the ending, but i was disappointed that maggie turned her back on her home town and hope. just a bit of input could have been wonderful for that town financially. hope was a vulgar arse but it was evident that when she applies herself she is an excellent coach. i think maggie's conduct and subsequent downfall demonstrated that maggie and her mother could be easily manipulated.

i can't say i found lance likeable at all. his interest in maggie was primarily as a tool to enhance his own reputation and undermine hope, of whom he has always been jealous