Customer Reviews
very lively and funny film - By: dan the fan, 21 May 2008 
Bring It On is a very lively & funny film about two rival high school cheer leading squads who are aiming for the national title as best team.The humour is relatively subtle compared to a lot of high school films - hence certificate 12 years - & the aggressive competitive nature & spirit of the teenagers portrayed is realistic.Worth watching just to see how good these cheerleading dance/acrobatic routines are.
Ssssshhhhh - this is secretly one of my favourite films - By: Franklin T Marmoset, 18 Sep 2007 
This one's a real guilty pleasure of mine - the kind of film I reallly shouldn't like & yet somehow (and secretly) I love. It's set in the colourful & slightly silly world of competitive cheerleading, & it sees perky new squad captain Torrance (Kirsten Dunst) face a potentiallly devastating cheer-tastrophe when she discovers her team's championship-winning routines have been stolen from a rival squad. Can Torrance keep her team together & learn a bunch of original moves in time for the national championship? I'm not telling. You have to watch the film to find out.
I was initiallly drawn to this one because it features two actresses from one of my favourite TV shows - Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Eliza Dushku (Faith) plays rebellious new cheerleader Missy, & Clare Kramer (Glory) has a funny supporting role as the catty Courtney. The weird thing is, there are other little connections I discovered as the film progressed. It was shot at the same Spanish-looking school that stood in for Sunnydale High, the score is by Buffy composer Christophe Beck, & Buffy herself is referenced in a line of dialogue. One of the characters even uses the word `effulgent'. Maybe that last one is a coincidence, I don't know, but Spike would be so proud! Given the familiar faces & locations, you could almost imagine Bring It On is some kind of side story that's happening while the slayer is otherwise engaged fighting vampires & demons & whatnot.
Even if you're not a terrible Buffy nerd (like me), there's plenty to recommend this one. For a start, it's very funny, & there are several moments that had me laughing out loud, especiallly the audition scene (which sees a parade of terrible applicants try out for the team), the hilarious choreographer Sparky Polastri ("Cheerleaders are dancers who have gone retarded"), & every single time someone made a pun using the word `cheer'. Also, the film has a sweet, naïve quality that wins you over, & it manages to have a lot of fun with the cheerleading world without ever stooping to mocking it.
So, this is hardly great cinema, & I'd prefer if you didn't tell anyone how much I like it (just writing this review is losing me precious man points), but it's a very bubbly & enjoyable way to fritter away a couple of hours.
Cogito Ergo Dum - By: Brady Orme, 11 Aug 2007 
Some movies aren't simply movies for their own sake, they exist as a counterweight to other, far worthier movies - Motion Pictures of weight & cultural influence. QED.
Hence, "Bring It On" is the counterweight of Leni Riefenstahl's "The Triumph Of The Will". I doubt it is more possible for two so-callled Cultural Artifacts to be any further apart. Riefenstahl films her targets going through the Olympic motions, Cheerleading frames in utter rank American decadence Kirsten Dunst, the unholy buffoon, the incarnation of a bleeding Mammon, dragging the entire Human Race down with her, into the depths of inadequacy.
Do not watch this movie, treat it like a lump of Uranium-265. bury it in a coffin of lead, fear it's million year half-life. We have alll been warned.
a good chick flick - By: playgirl, 27 Jul 2007 
i personallly liked this film, im not reallly into the cheerleading thing but a friend recommended it so i rented it, i was pleasantly surprised.
the dances are fab & theres alot of attitude between rival cheerleaders which made it funny in places.
its definately a must, buy it you wont be sorry
i rated it a 4 star so thats good enough - By: L. Mackey, 12 May 2007 This movie was pure class & funny too in some parts. It's mainly about two different cheerleading teams battling it out to win the cheerleading championships though there are some other teams too but they are the two main contenders. It wasn't the best movie I've seen in the world but then again I've seen loads so thats why I rated it a four star. At the start I wasn't off my seat thinking "oh this movie's gonna be the best ever I can't wait to see the whole thing!" It was more like "mmmmmmmm this movie's ok I'm not too sure that it'll be the best movie in the world though but its looks quite exciting." It was quite boring at the start but then again so is every movie until you get into it then you could feel the tension in the cheerleaders & it got more exciting. Its more of a chick flick thing & thats my kinda thing girly stuff, cat fights, back stabbing n alll that jazz well I guess I'd kinda recommend it so jst buy it. Its a good crack!
