The overall Rating of the movie Whip It is Generally favorable, as metacritic.com has it at a 67 Score out of 100. Not too good, in fact it seems pretty average among movie reviewers. Chicago Sun-Times (80), The New York Times (50), New York Post (80) and Variety(80).

Here are the more favorable reviews:

Barrymore’s casting choices are intrinsic to the success of the film. Lewis, under her rink name, Iron Maven, hasn’t had this meaty a role in maybe 15 years, while Wilson as the team’s shaggy male coach is a hoot to watch. Harden and Stern, as Bliss’ parents, create fleshed-out characters instead of lazy depictions of the paper tigers that grown-ups usually are in teens’ stories.. -Austin Chronicle

Arriving on the nastier heels of the horror comedy “Jennifer’s Body,” Whip It plays like that movie’s more wholesome twin, delivering the same jolt of anarchic guerrilla-girl empowerment, only with a far less threatening disposition. -Washington Post

At moments, especially in the conflicted intimacy between Marcia Gay Harden and Daniel Stern as Bliss’ parents, Barrymore shows real directing chops. But in Whip It she’s painting inside the box. -Rolling Stone

The Mixed and less favorable reviews in the media.

The movie is Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut (she also plays fellow Hurl Scout Smashley Simpson), and it’s clear she’s more attuned to grrrlishness than real athletic power. -Entertainment Weekly

Highlights: Andrew Wilson as the roller girls’ coach (ah, so there’s the Wilson brother who can act) and the roller-derby vets (played especially well by Juliette Lewis and Kristen Wiig) about whom we learn just enough to wish the movie was focused on them instead.-Village Voice

It’s virtually impossible to hate the film, but Barrymore’s presence behind the camera suggests more calculation than vision; like a lot of actors who direct, she tends to the performances, but her style never rises above bland proficiency. -The Onion