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Bring It On (2000) -- The Toros Cheerleaders face off against a rival squad.
Bring It On (2000) -- Justin has an important message for his sister.
Bring It On (2000) -- Choreographer Sparky Polastri gives the cheerleaders a piece of his mind.

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5.9/10   28,230 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Jessica Bendinger (written by)
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Release Date:
25 August 2000 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Backstabbing. Spotlight-grabbing. Secret-blabbing. A cheerleader's life is all that. more
Plot:
A champion high school cheerleading squad discovers its previous captain stole all their best routines from an inner-city school and must scramble to compete at this year's championships. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 7 nominations more
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(135 articles)
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Energetic, Well-Scripted Fluff more (369 total)

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Also Known As:
Cheer Fever (USA) (working title)
Jump (USA) (working title)
A por todas (Spain) [es]
American Girls (France) [fr]
Anna palaa (Finland) [fi]
Bring It On (Denmark) [da]
Cheers! (Japan: English title) [en]
Gençlik atesi (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Girls United (Netherlands) [nl]
Girls United (Germany) [de]
Girls United (Belgium: English title) [en]
Le tout pour le tout (Canada: French title) [fr]
O pyretos tis nikis (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
Ragazze nel pallone (Italy) [it]
Teenagers - As Apimentadas (Brazil) [pt]
Triunfos robados (Argentina) (video title) [es]
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Rated PG-13 for sex-related material and language.
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98 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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The very last scene to be filmed was the toothbrush flirting scene with Jesse Bradford and Kirsten Dunst. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Whenever Cliff appears on screen, in some shots, he appears to have a tattoo of a roman numeral on his upper left bicep. In the scene where Missy is practicing her cheers in their living room and Cliff walks in and makes fun of her, his 'tattoo' is severely faded and almost completely washed off from his skin. However, in the final scenes in the movie, during the shot of Cliff in the crowd rocking out to the Toros' routine at Nationals, Cliff's arm is raised and his tattoo is once again visible and freshly filled in. It *is* possible that Cliff could have just liked to draw fake tattoos on his body like his sister did in the audition scene, but being as the film takes place over a several month period, the odds of him continually drawing the same tattoo in the same spot is highly unlikely. more
Quotes:
[Courtney and Whitney notice Torrance flirting with Cliff]
Whitney: Oh, don't play dumb. We're better at it then you.
Courtney: You were having cheer-sex with him!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Tracey Fragments (2007) more
Soundtrack:
Makes No Difference more

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Energetic, Well-Scripted Fluff, 20 February 2001
Author: Daniel J. Fienberg (d_fienberg) from Los Angeles, CA

"Cheerleaders are dancers who have gone retarded," says Sparky, the modern dance-influenced choreographer who from $2000 dollars a pop teaches cheerleaders the mysteries of Fosse-inflected "happy fingers." Bring It On, which was a surprise hit in the fall of 2000, clearly believes that cheerleaders are far more than hoofers gone to seed. Despite the frequent jokes at their expense in the film, Bring It On shows cheerleaders are spirited, athletic, graceful, and most importantly, relevant to the 21st Century. Colorfully shot, attractively cast, and snappily written, Bring It On is hardly a great movie, but it's perfectly appealing for most people and I'd guess that the millions of cheerleaders and former cheerleaders nationwide will get a lot more out of it.

The plot is simple. It's like Rocky. Or Varsity Blues. Or any other sports movie you've ever seen. New captain of the five time national cheerleading champions Toros, Torrance (Kirsten Dunst) is shocked when the new girl on the squad (Eliza Dushka), a gymnast, tells her that all of the routines that made the squad famous were stolen from an inner city school in East Compton, two hours up the coast. Determined to prove that they can do it themselves, the Toros go through a fairly short journey to self-empowerment. There's a pounding bass line, lots of teens in short skirts, some fun flipping, and a lesson about being true to yourself and believing in others.

The film also takes on any number of myths about cheerleaders. Are male cheerleaders all gay, or do they just like grabbing girls' rears? The answer, of course is a little from column A and a little from Column B. Are cheerleaders all airheads? Well, the issue of whether or not these girls go to class is done away with in two minutes at the beginning of the film. From that point on, education, books, and homework are never mentioned. Any occasional signs of intelligence are held up to ridicule, though these "sweater puppets" are all quick with a witty retort, so they must have something going on upstairs. And finally, is cheerleading a sport? Well, this film comes out firmly on the side of yes.

For all of its verve, Jessica Bendinger's script is too reductive for the movie to be taken very seriously. The white girls are obviously upper scale and spoiled. Naturally the white girls don't have any sass at first and naturally they borrow it from their African-American neighbors. The black girls are supposed to be poor. Not that that's really depicted in this day-glo colored world.

In fact, through the wonders of Hollywood Central casting, the squad from East Compton actually looked even more racially homogenous than the "Buffys" from San Diego. This is an inner city high school that has a cheerleading squad featuring a dozen girls with identical light complexions and straight hair. The racial assumptions at work here would be offensive if the movie placed any premium on reality. Instead, as directed by Peyton Reed, everything is colorful, glossy, and easy on the eyes. The intricate cheerleading routines are mostly shot from strange angles or awkward close-ups to make it impossible to tell if the cast is actually doing any of the cheering stunts at all.

When Kirsten Dunst makes good small movies (see The Virgin Suicides or Dick), nobody goes to them. So I suppose it's fitting that this movie was a smash. She's always an entertaining screen presence and for now she's still young enough that it isn't ridiculous for her to keep playing high school characters. How her career progresses as she matures remains to be seen. The rest of the cast seems like they were picked from the set of a WB series. Now since I kind of like a number of WB series, I don't mean this as an insult in any way. The Warner Brothers network has proven a good training ground for attractive young women to read catchy dialogue and everybody in Bring It On seems very skilled with the zingers. And as the aforementioned Sparky the choreographer, Ian Roberts is just hilarious and his scene is easily the funniest part of the movie.

In the end, Bring It On is fairly satisfying. It's also amusing to note the strange directions that this movie is able to stretch the limits of the PG-13 rating in terms of language and certain forms of implied sexuality. But that's neither here nor there. Bring it On gets a not-to-be-ashamed-of 6/10 from me.

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