A note on the unforgivable scene

Rating: 1/10 (31 August 2000)

Bring It On sends itself to hell in one scene that cannot be redeemed by anything else the movie might do during the next ninety minutes. In the offending scene, a dance instructor proceeds to tell the girls that they ought to skip a few meals so that their bodies will consume fat and perhaps decrease the size of a few rear ends. Now while the writers might have thought this would bring on chuckles and giggles, and the directors might have passed over this material without a second thought, it is not at all something that ought to be fed into the minds of young American girls. Young teens are already depressed enough with their bodies after reading Teen Magazine and Seventeen and YM, and seeing every model and actress on television with a "perfect body." We don't need this movie to tell millions of girls to starve themselves, informing them that they'll be doing themselves some good.