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Summary: Adds nothing to the genre...
Review: ...but it will have its fans; those who enjoy watching cheerleading competitions and those who enjoy watching a lot of skinny actresses run around in skimpy, tight outfits for about an hour and a half. The plot; Dunst takes over as cheerleading captain for 'Lily-White High School' only to discover that the departing captain had stolen all of their routines from an inner city squad at 'Mostly Black High School'. What a moral quandary! Things really take a wacky turn when the Lily-Whites then have to face the Mostly Blacks at nationals! Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans may will enjoy the presence of not just Faith, but the overlooked Glorificus as well. All of the stock teen stereotypes are present in Bring It On, and strangely enough so is the perpetuation of the 'myth' that male cheerleaders are generally Nancy boys. I would have thought that a movie that is trying to portray cheerleading in a positive light would have tried to avoid that. One of the males has the 'hilarious' predilection of digitally raping his female counterparts while they are performing together. His victims seem to love it! Nice message for teenage boys from Hollywood, young girls LOVE unwanted digital penetration!. Another point of contention is why are the inner city kids the Clovers? If there is some subliminal message there, I really don't get it. Maybe it was left on the cutting room floor. So while the story may have had a little promise, its limited appeal and limiting script assured that the movie wouldn't live up to it. I can't believe Kirsten Dunst hasn't fired her agent yet for continuing to let her star in these weak teen movies. It's as if she were aging in reverse. But, all this aside, I did watch the whole thing and would again. It just isn't very good, even for a teen movie.
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Summary: it's all about determination to win
Review: this is a good movie for children in competitive sports to never give up on your dream to be number #1 you can do it as the cheerleading squads did in this movie not giving up and working hard does pay off.
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Summary: Pom Pom Drama Plays it Safe With Gutted Script
Review: Bring it On is a movie about the trials and tribulations that exist in the world of high school cheer leading - the fears, the work and the hopes endured by squads vying for a place in a national championship. On TV we often see programs that document the quaint and sometimes downright weird cultural practices of people in other countries. Bring it On reminded me that we have some pretty odd practices right here at home. In one scene, the main character says, "I'm a cheerleader. That's what I am." What a strange view of self that it! Is there a social anthropoligist in the house?Torrance [Kirstin Dunst] is the new captain of The Toros, the cheerleaders from a school in an affluent part of San Diego. They have been national champions for five years and have the exaggerated sense of importance such dubious competitions bring. Her world is deflated when she learns that the routine the team won the last contest with was stolen from a group in East Compton, an intercity - and mostly black - neighborhood in Los Angeles. To make matters worse, the East Compton team is aware of the theft and is also trying to enter this year's competition. Naturally, they despise the uppity Toros. The movie starts with a dream sequence about the Toros that is both satirical and hilarious. For its first half hour, it stays on track and promises to be smart and funny, as in Election, one of the best teen movies of recent years. Then it changes course. It becomes sappy and serious for the most part. You can almost see the executives at Sony, the company that produced it, picking at the original script, hacking away its heart and replacing it with material gleaned from some focus group. The confrontations between the black team and the mostly white Toros have been sanitized and sweetened, I believe, and, as a result, Torrance's attempts to reach out come across as merely patronizing. The best thing about Bring it On is that it stars Kirstin Dunst, one of our best young stars. She has the ability to tackle virtually any role. She is excellent as Torrance, making a likable character out of someone who is, for the most part, a bimbo. Another good performance is given by Gabriel Union as Isis, the captain of the East Compton team. There are also some well choreographed cheer leading routines, all of them of the 'don't try this as home' variety. Bring it On is an example of a recent Hollywood trend. It has the tone and subject matter of an "R" rated movie, but has been edited in such a way that it can squeak by with a "PG-13." Commercially, I see the logic of this trend. Entertainment-wise, I don't. The result is a product that is bit too grown up for kids but somewhat too infantile for adults.
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Summary: eww is that stench from this movie
Review: ok so im a litlle harsh but kirsten dunst [stunk] in this movie. what was the point of it. eliza dushku made it worthy of the 5 stars with her looks. thats the reason i bought it. id pick her to be my girlfriend anyday. the acting was medicore other than eliza dushku too. it had its funny moments though the part in the begging where kirsten is naked hahaha. luckilly she got more embarresed than i did with watching this movie. well see this for the incomparable mrs dushku the hottest actress ever.
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Summary: [Bad] !
Review: WORST MOVIE EVEEEEEEEEEER !!! I didn't like this movie one bit . The characters are skankish, and the plot is terrible ! ... This one is a waste of money . No wonder it was spoofed in "Not Another Teen Movie" !
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Summary: Bring it on? Yes please do, bring on a plot!
Review: The world of movies has been forever desecrated by the tastless world of cheerleading. A poor topic for a movie, attempted to make popular by providing a host of well known stars as the cast. You sink deeper, unvolenterrally into the superficial world of cheerleading throughout the long, everlasting two hours. This film left me wanting to burn the telly in order to save it from ever having to bear another tacky american film like this ever again. Bring on some movies with intelligence and meaning!
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Summary: great movie
Review: This is a very very good movie, starring Kirsten Dunst in perhaps one of her most innocent and lovable roles as Torrance Shipman, the new determined captain of the cheerleading squad. All goes well as the team shows off their spunk and prepares for their 6th championship title.....but then Torrance has a messy confrontation with Isis, the captain of the Clovers, a squad across town that is equally as talented as Torrance's team. Apparently, Torrance's predesessor as captain, "Big Red," used some top-notch routines from the Clovers to lead her squad to all those national titles. Now that Isis is the new captain, she ain't showin' no mercy. So, now is the time for Torrance and her team to come up with a new routine and ensure that they make it to nationals. But it isn't easy, because Torrance is forced to deal with two fellow cheerleaders who are itching to take over Torrance as captain, and not many of the others are interesting in wiping the slate clean and starting all over with some fresh new routines. It's just a really funny movie, with a lot of funny moments, romance, and pretty much everything else that makes up a good teen movie. I recommend it.
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Summary: Funny and sexy
Review: I didn't catch Bring It On when it was in the theaters, but rented it on DVD. Even though I have been a fan of Kirsten Dunst for awhile, I was surprised how likeable and funny this movie is. Yes, it is a "teen comedy," but is is very good-natured and less stereotypical than the typical teen movie. I liken it to Clueless. It could easily have been a leering comedy that delighted in showing teen cheerleaders, but it has much more depth. Best of all is the straight-faced and sincere commentary track from its director. At the end of the DVD, he comments that he worked very hard making sure that the end credits were correct and looked good, and he goes on to say that "If you remeber only one thing about Bring It On, I hope it's the credits." Hilarious!
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Summary: Social commentary that's easy to take
Review: The cheerleader comedy and typical teen-angst issues aside, this is some interesting social commentary that's quite easy to take. The issue of the White, upper-class Toros stealing routines from the predominently Black, low-income Clovers is hadnled well without soapbox dialogue (I loved the line where one of the Clovers says "When are we going to beat these Buffys down?"). The other highlight, along with the cheerleader routines and the opening parody, is the punk-rock love song that Kristen Dunst's boyfriend in the film tapes for her. Has the feel of an early 80s teen movie, but far more intentionally entertaining.
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Summary: It's Sexy, It's Cute, And It's Funny to Boot.
Review: Some say it's predictable; some say it's just another teen movie. But it's hardly possible to dislike "Bring It On," because it succeeds in creating fun in most down-to-earth fashion. To say it's bad is like kicking a puppy clinging to your feet. To me, the best thing in "Bring It on" is that it pays due respect to cheerleading, sometimes hugely misunderstood among the people (see "Replacement," for example"). I am teaching at women's college in Japan, and I have actually witnessed what they can do once. It was sensational. They took my breath away. "Bring It On" will increase the number of cheerleaders in high school, and it's no wonder. On top of that, I am willing to welcome Kirsten Dunst in teen movie, whose previous work was "Virgin Suicides." I don't say I hate the movie; still, I'd rather give another $ 10 to watch "Bring It On" than to see her dead. The real find here is, however, Eliza Dushku, who easily steals every scene she's in with her natural charm. Look how she smiles! The most important key to the success of the film may be, after all, the characters are all taking their life seriously as the exciting national competition of the final scene shows. We find there that we, young and old, could relate to them. After all it's good to see people enjoying themselves, and doing what they can do earnestly. Love cheerleading. Love life. [FROM HERE BELOW, MY COMMENTARY REFERS ONLY TO VHS SPECIAL EDITION ISSUED IN 2001] As Amazon's technical information is slightly erroreous, I add some correction below. The tape contains two "deleted scenes"; one of them is a kitchen scene, in which Torrence (Dunst) confesses she has a boyfriend. The other is the scene where Torrance's parents talk about her future education in college by the side of swimming pool. The "extended scene" is the locker room scene, originally done in one shot, like De Palma or Scorsese often does. The director wisely decided to use only the half of it, and for the rest of the scene he substituted frontal shots of Torrance and her friends respectively. (It may be interesting to compare two takes for fans because total effect is different.) So, "Locker Room Scene" IS this "Extended Scene"; they are the same thing. Nothing serious, though, when the feature film is so funny.
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