Kick Like a Girl is a highly entertaining, blissfully short (25 min) film about a girls’ soccer team whose coach arranges for them to play in a boys’ league because they had gone undefeated in 2 girls’ leagues. For the most part, Kick Like a Girl is very positive and uplifting but hearing some of the parents’ reactions to their sons playing against girls is definitely disheartening.

The girls are very charismatic and interview very well for being so young. The filmmakers interview some of the boys who get beaten, and their views are more open-minded than some of the parents. Some of the boys who went into the games deriding the girls learn to respect their opponents. The girls are shown to work much better as a team, and some of the boys recognize why this teamwork was a key part to the girls’ success.

As much as I like the film, I’m not sure how high it will rank on my list of Notable Videos for Adults. Kick Like a Girl would be an excellent choice for middle school students, but then again, after seeing how some of the parents react in the film, some adults could learn a lot from this title as well.