<strong><span class="subhead">Free Style</span></strong></p><p>***</p><p><strong>PG (brief mild language, sensuality, thematic material); 94 min.</strong></p><p>Movies don’t come more formulaic than <em>Free Style</em>, a vehicle designed to showcase a post-<em>High School Musical </em>Corbin Bleu in the throes of growing up. It’s all here: a kid with a dream (in this case, to be a motocross champ), no dad, no money, two jobs, an indifferent girlfriend, an injured mom and a nasty nemesis on the track. How will he ever overcome it all?</p><p>Yet as predictable and clichéd as <em>Free Style</em> is, it moves along briskly enough and Bleu is compelling enough that it doesn’t wear out its welcome. In fact, compared with another recent, relatively low-budget, young-man-against-the-world tale (<em>Broken Hill</em>), <em>Free Style </em>is a pleasure.</p><p>Bleu is Cale, a motocross enthusiast who lives in a small town in the Pacific Northwest with his mom and younger sister. He thinks his ticket out of this nowheresville is on his motorcycle, a passion he shares with his best friend, Justin (Jesse Moss).</p><p>But that friendship is tested when Justin wins a big race and a corporate endorsement, the first step on the road to turning pro. Throw in Cale finding out that his girlfriend (Tegan Moss) is cavorting with his hated rival, Derek (Matt Bellefleur), and that his mom (Penelope Ann Miller) has been in a car wreck, and it looks like it’s all over for our young hero.</p><p>Of course — spoiler alert — with the trust of a new girlfriend (Sandra Echeverria) and a never-give-up attitude, Bleu manages to bounce back. Shocker.</p><p><em>Free Style </em>doesn’t vary from the sports/beating-the-odds movie playbook at all. But, sometimes, a formula well-done is good enough.