"Cheerleaders are dancers that have gone retarded"

Rating: Null/10 (5 March 2001)

'Bring it On' takes itself seriously enough to allow for a modicum of interest in its characters - something you might not expect in a film built around cheerleading. But do we really care about what happens to these cheerleaders, whether they win their competition, whether they can pull together as a team? I don't think I could possibly care less.

Now that I've seen it, I've decided to lay off the cheerleading films for a while. As a genre, it just doesn't work for me - I didn't care about cheerleaders, cheerleading or "school spirit" when I was in school, so I'm not about to start caring now.