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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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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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(133 articles)
Bendinger Launches Screenwriting Contest
 (From Thompson on Hollywood. 19 November 2009, 7:58 PM, PST)

Advance Review - The Crazies (Remake; 2010)
 (From Fangoria. 16 November 2009, 4:59 AM, PST)

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Fresh, intelligent, fiercely self-aware comedy. more (369 total)

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Also Known As:
Cheer Fever (USA) (working title)
Jump (USA) (working title)
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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 film Missy watches to get inspiration from is Sweet Charity (1969) more
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Errors in geography: At the Finals in "Daytona", a pier can be seen on the beach behind the stage. There is no pier at Daytona. The actual filming location was in Oceanside, CA. more
Quotes:
Darcy: Big Red ran the show, man. We were just flying ignorami, for sobbing out loud. more
Movie Connections:
Spoofed in Not Another Teen Movie (2001) more
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There She Goes more

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16 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
Fresh, intelligent, fiercely self-aware comedy., 6 February 2001
6/10
Author: Alice Liddel (-darragh@excite.com) from dublin, ireland

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).

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