This is so much better than your average girly film. Its love story starts in the middle, rather than ending when they get together and as a result it's deeper and really gets to your heart. The ice skating is beautiful and many aspects of it are shown: the joy, training, tears, glamour, press, competitions, hard work. You get to see a lot of skating too, it doesn't keep you waiting. Something awful happens (I don't want to spoil it for you!), but the film does not descend into depressing 'realism', nor is it sickeningly happy at the end. The music is beautiful, memorable and stirring.
If you like girly films, ice skating, dance films, etc, it is so worth watching. This film really stands out to me as one of the best I've seen for a long time.