It's nice to see a well-crafted, thoughtful film that shows what kids are like at their best.
Bring It On (2000)
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Reviews Counted:117
Fresh:75
Rotten:42
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Despite the formulaic, fluffy storyline, this movie is surprisingly fun to watch, mostly due to its high energy and how it humorously spoofs cheerleading instead of taking itself too seriously.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis:
Torrance Shipman (Kirsten Dunst) is a typical all-American high school girl. Since being been named captain of her school's championship-winning cheerleading squad, the San Diego Toros, she's on...
Torrance Shipman (Kirsten Dunst) is a typical all-American high school girl. Since being been named captain of her school's championship-winning cheerleading squad, the San Diego Toros, she's on top of the world. She's determined that nothing -- not even her homework, her nagging parents or her perfect college boyfriend -- get in the way of leading her squad to its sixth consecutive national title.
But the Toro's have some stiff competition this time out from the Clovers, an inner-city, hip-hop squad from Los Angeles. When Torrance learns that her predecessor has been stealing cheer routines for years from the rival squad, she realizes that the Clovers and their captain Isis (Gabrielle Union) are looking to even the score -- and that the Toro's are in big trouble. Things get even worse when Torrance finds herself falling for Cliff (Jesse Bradford), an outsider from school with whom she normally would never associate, and with the national championships only a few weeks away, the pressure is on.
Universal Pictures’ and Beacon Pictures’ rowdy comedy Bring It On, features a talented ensemble of up-and-coming young actors, including Eliza Dushku, Claire Kramer, Nicole Bilderback, Tsianina Joelson, Rini Bell, Nathan West and Huntley Ritter. The film is produced by Marc Abraham (Air Force One) and Thomas A. Bliss, written by Jessica Bendinger, and directed by Peyton Reed, whose credits include numerous music videos, as well as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and The Love Bug.
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Gabrielle Union, Jesse Bradford
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Gabrielle Union, Jesse Bradford, Natina Reed, Nicole Bilderback, Rini Bell, Huntley Ritter, Brandi Williams, Tsianina Joelson, Shamari Fears, Ian Roberts, Nathan West
Director: Peyton Reed
Director: Peyton Reed
Producer: Marc Abraham
Studio: Universal Pictures
Reviews for Bring It On
We get a strange mutant beast, half Nickelodeon movie, half R-rated comedy. It's like kids with potty-mouth playing grownup.
Bring It On is the most exuberantly funny and smartest teen movie this summer, which is something to cheer about.
Jessica Bendinger's screenplay finds good-natured humor in a sport begging to be satirized, and the jokes are more intelligent than cheap.
The film earns a lot of good will because of its enthusiastic cast, impressive choreography, and remarkably fast pace.
Watching Bring It On is kind of like eating a movie-theatre sized bag of M&Ms: You get no real value from it, you feel a tad sick afterwards, but you still enjoy the experience.
Quickly goes downhill, taking itself too seriously and ladling on every cliché in the screenwriter's manual.
It's another one of those high school pics that don't really have much bearing on the real world. But as fluffy adolescent fantasy, it's better than most.
Bring It On gets real entertainment out of a flick in an often-mocked genre.
Three cheers for effort, but you won't do a back-flip over this film.
A silly, slangy and ultimately conventional spoof, touring the girls' locker room with an unusual skirmish involving teeth-brushing.
Imperfect it may be, but as Courtney and Whitney might say, it puts the cheer in cheerleader.
Election this isn't, yet compared to most teenage comedies, Bring It On seems something like smart.
The problem with the film is that others have done its routine before, and have done it better.
Bring It On is the kind of dim-witted fun that's almost impossible to critique. For as much as it fails on every conceivable level as a movie, the fact that it never really knows how bad it is gives it an almost irresistibly idiotic charm.
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