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25 August 2000 (USA) moreTagline:
Backstabbing. Spotlight-grabbing. Secret-blabbing. A cheerleader's life is all that. morePlot:
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 synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 7 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(127 articles)
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Fresh, intelligent, fiercely self-aware comedy. more (370 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kirsten Dunst | ... | Torrance Shipman | |
| Eliza Dushku | ... | Missy Pantone | |
| Jesse Bradford | ... | Cliff Pantone | |
| Gabrielle Union | ... | Isis | |
| Clare Kramer | ... | Courtney | |
| Nicole Bilderback | ... | Whitney | |
| Tsianina Joelson | ... | Darcy | |
| Rini Bell | ... | Kasey | |
| Nathan West | ... | Jan | |
| Huntley Ritter | ... | Les | |
| Shamari Fears | ... | Lava | |
| Natina Reed | ... | Jenelope | |
| Brandi Williams | ... | Lafred | |
| Richard Hillman | ... | Aaron | |
| Lindsay Sloane | ... | Big Red |
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Rated PG-13 for sex-related material and language.Parents Guide:
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98 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Australia:PG (TV rating) | Iceland:L | Malaysia:U | South Korea:15 | Netherlands:12 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:6 (re-rating) | Netherlands:AL (original rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:TE | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:o.Al. | Hong Kong:IIA | Mexico:B | New Zealand:M | Norway:A | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #37512)Fun Stuff
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In the last scene during the Awards ceremony, the "editor of Cheer Fashion Magazine, Ms. Brandi Tattersol", is Director, Peyton Reed's wife. moreGoofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Torrance is staying at Missy's house, she walks into Cliff's room while he's playing the guitar. His left hand never changes position on the neck, yet he's "improvising" a constant succession of chords. moreQuotes:
Kasey: Courtney'll get captain. The guys like touching her butt.Darcy: Yeah, she's got a lot to hang on to. What's the plural for 'butt'? On one person, I mean.
Carver: She puts the "ass" in "massive".
Darcy: You put the "lewd" in "deluded".
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Shake A Lil' Something moreFAQ
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This delightful comedy uses its ostensible theme of cheerleading rivalry to comment on its own genre, the teen movie. Given a genuinely exciting reinvention by 'Clueless', and reaching a peak with the likes of 'American Pie' and '10 Things I hate about you', the genre is in danger, as all successful genres are, of exchanging its wit, visual exuberance, engaging playing and agreeable sentiment for cash-hungry formulae and all-round laziness.
'Bring it on' falls into neither of these traps, but is aware that its genre is exhausting itself, and raises a number of pertinent issues. do filmmakers, like the Toro cheerleaders, continue their success by ripping off others' tricks? Is it possible to be original any more, or is the best we can hope for a clever spin on older, wider sources (this, of course, applies to cinema and all art in general)? Most pertinent, and 'Road Block' had already touched on this, is it time we jettisoned the toothy, white, middle-class young, and their oh-so-harrowing traumas, and allow a more representative teen demographic into the tacitly racist genre?
'Bring it on' may not entirely escape this last accusation - the black cheerleaders have no real humanity of their own, we are not given the same insight into their backgrounds and personalities as the white girls, beyond catch-all under-privilege. They are a mirror in which the whites can examine their complacency or flaws and correct them - literally so in many scenes, where the whites 'reflect' the blacks' movements, and the latter distort them in return, thereby commenting on them.
However, this touchy racial subject matter has a major benefit on the narrative arc. The plot is the old stand-by: a team of underdogs against the odds, triumph against circumstances and expectations. This would be tiresomely formulaic, except there are two teams in the film with equal claims on our attention and sympathies - it would be unthinkable for a Hollywood film today to have poor black people lose against pampered whites, but every stylistic decision - the humanising of characters; the rites of passage and socialising-of-misfits narrative; screen-time etc. - favours these whites. This creates a genuine tension, added to little asides (such as Torrence's brother's T-shirt, 'Cheerleading = Death') that make a familiar narrative interesting, problematic and unpredictable.
This is not to deny the familiar pleasures of the genre - the beautiful, clothes-shy young stars (the film gets to leer and satirise such leering!); the witty dialogue and bitchiness; the screenplay sharp about traditional issues of power and community; revelatory, stylised dreams and memories; the unforced energy. 'Bring it on' is a rare instance in the last few decades of a musical, and the various cheerleading routines are exhilerating and inventive, revealing to many a hitherto hidden purpose of a much maligned group, while still retaining the right to tongue-hollow that cheek. (AND a Shakespearean finale, where the actors come back after the curtain, and show us it was all play).