Unquestionably awful.

Rating: Null/10 (10 September 2000)

'Bring It On' follows the exploits, trials, and tribulations of an upper crust, all white cheerleading team from a California suburb. The main character, Torrance (Kirstin Dunst), is the newly named captain of the squad and is hellbent on leading her team to victory.
I thought the film started off as promising -- with a farcical skit, dance thing about cheerleaders. It degenerated. It -really- degenerated -- into a whole lot of painful, laughably bad dialogue, just a train wreck of a plot, and incredibly flat and one demsional performances. Example: Kirstin Dunst's character actually says: "Missy is the pooh. Take a whiff." I would explain who Missy is and the context that the line is used in. But why ruin it for you?
I'm a big fan of Kirstin Dunst. At least I became one after seeing "Interview...", which I thought she did exceptionally well in. But even she was stagnant in this flick; I couldn't have cared less about her character...or any one of them for that matter. I was just hoping they'd all get hit by a huge truck or something so I could go home.
Another thing -- the fact that some people are calling this the best teen movie since "Clueless" is a brutal insult. "Bring It On" just buys into a lot of brainless, fluffy, and false stereotypes about cheerleaders and teenagers in general; and I know 'cos I am one (a teenager, that is). And I didn't really appreciate it. Not that "Clueless" doesn't as well, but hey, at least -that- movie was mildly funny.
Come to think of it, I'm hard pressed to find one redeeming quality about "Bring It On".