Say what you want about Norm, but he could get routines out of those cheerleaders that would absolutely make a man's jaw drop like a snake eating an egg. The year he did a whole halftime routine set to the soundtrack album for Purple Rain , there was talk that Sheriff Carl Dinsmoore was going to raid the stadium. Anyway, I guess some folks decided that, since the National Cheerleading Championships have found a steady audience on ESPN, there just had to be a movie in there, somewhere. One can only hope for the movie about professional Lumberjack Sport Sawing, or whatever they call that stuff with those guys chopping trees up for money. But Universal decided to make Bring It On , a movie all about the cheerleading life, and tossed Kirsten Dunst in as the star.
Problem is, though, they forgot one important detail of moviemaking.
They forgot to make it interesting. She's as perky and golden and shiny as every cheerleader you ever thought about. Well, Torrance is all worried 'cause she's up for Captain of the Squad. Her school has a big rivalry with the cross-town school, and wouldn't you know it, the two schools wind up in a showdown at the National Cheerleading Championships, just like the ones that flood ESPN in the middle of the day when nobody is really watching. It's because the plot ends right there.