Roll Bounce (2005)

After their local roller skating rink closes, Xavier (known as X) and his friends go uptown to Sweetwater Roller Rink and enter a competition to win a $500 grand prixe.  The box description makes it sound like it's Electric Boogalo on skates.

Oh yeah, that's right. We've got a skate off!  The kids are going to skate against their idol, Sweetness, who turns out to be kind of an ass.

This movie has a ton of cliches.  There's a dead mother, an unemployed father, an ignored son, a sassy little sister, a father who pretends to go to work so his kids won't worry that he lost his job, a sexy new neighbor, the father starts dating and keeps it from the kids, the underdog skaters from the poor side of town vs. the king of the roller rink in his fancy duds, etc.  You can probably guess every twist and turn in this movie.

Yet for some reason, I'm a sucker for roller skating movies.  I don't know if there's ever been a good one. Usually they follow the same old cliched story lines of a skate off, kids against authority figures who are trying to close down the rink, and/or rival teams talking smack about each other.  Hurrah!