The Tao of Steve, while a good showcase for Donal Logue, makes no exception to this rule. But I'm a Cheerleader dir. But I'm A Cheerleader. Horrified, they ship her off to a training camp run by Cathy Moriarty and a non-drag Ru Paul that guarantees to make her straight again. The bulk of the movie, though, consists of the counselors actually teaching the campers to act more like typical heterosexuals a funny premise that gets run into the ground almost immediately through constant repetition.
Cheerleader plays like a loopy fairy tale, without a shred of real drama.
Everything is smug and tongue in cheek and over-saturated. And that's fine in short bursts, but it gets pretty distracting at feature length. Far from achieving the cult status you can tell it wants, the movie just ends up cheerless. The 1974 Original included a 40-minute car chase. The Jerry Bruckheimer remake starring Nicolas Cage may not have a 40-minute car chase, but it falls only minutes short.