Bring It On
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The Toro cheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has got spirit, spunk, sass and a killer routine that's sure to land them the national championship trophy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain Torrance, the Toros' road to total cheer glory takes a shady turn when she discovers that their perfectly-choreographed routines were in fact stolen.
What critics thought
Critics were genuinely split on this cheerleading comedy: admirers found real satirical bite in its treatment of racial and economic inequality, while detractors saw a formulaic, tonally muddled film that couldn't commit to either its raunchier instincts or its sharper ones. The one thing nearly everyone agreed on was Kirsten Dunst, whose comic performance drew praise even from reviewers who panned everything around her.
“We get a strange mutant beast, half Nickelodeon movie, half R-rated comedy. It's like kids with potty-mouth playing grownup”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“a terrific comic actress, largely because of her great expressive range, and the nimbleness with which she can shift from anxiety to aggression to genuine hurt”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“[Dunst] provides the only major element of Bring It On that plays as tweaking parody rather than slick, strident, body-slam churlishness”
Jessica Winter·The Village Voice
“predictable and surprisingly confusing in its ultimate message”
Paula Nechak·Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“among contemporary teenage actresses, Dunst is the sunniest imaginable parodist”
Charles Taylor·Salon
Genres
Comedy
Cast & Crew
Peyton ReedDirector
Kirsten DunstTorrance Shipman
Eliza DushkuMissy Pantone
Jesse BradfordCliff Pantone
Gabrielle UnionIsis
Sherry HurseyChristine Shipman
Holmes OsborneBruce Shipman
Clare KramerCourtney
Nicole BilderbackWhitney
Tsianina JoelsonDarcy
Shamari DeVoeLava
Natina ReedJenelope
Christophe BeckComposerBring It On
The Toro cheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has got spirit, spunk, sass and a killer routine that's sure to land them the national championship trophy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain Torrance, the Toros' road to total cheer glory takes a shady turn when she discovers that their perfectly-choreographed routines were in fact stolen.
What critics thought
Critics were genuinely split on this cheerleading comedy: admirers found real satirical bite in its treatment of racial and economic inequality, while detractors saw a formulaic, tonally muddled film that couldn't commit to either its raunchier instincts or its sharper ones. The one thing nearly everyone agreed on was Kirsten Dunst, whose comic performance drew praise even from reviewers who panned everything around her.
“We get a strange mutant beast, half Nickelodeon movie, half R-rated comedy. It's like kids with potty-mouth playing grownup”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“a terrific comic actress, largely because of her great expressive range, and the nimbleness with which she can shift from anxiety to aggression to genuine hurt”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“[Dunst] provides the only major element of Bring It On that plays as tweaking parody rather than slick, strident, body-slam churlishness”
Jessica Winter·The Village Voice
“predictable and surprisingly confusing in its ultimate message”
Paula Nechak·Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“among contemporary teenage actresses, Dunst is the sunniest imaginable parodist”
Charles Taylor·Salon
Genres
Comedy
Cast & Crew
Peyton ReedDirectorKirsten DunstTorrance ShipmanEliza DushkuMissy PantoneJesse BradfordCliff PantoneGabrielle UnionIsisSherry HurseyChristine ShipmanHolmes OsborneBruce ShipmanClare KramerCourtneyNicole BilderbackWhitneyTsianina JoelsonDarcyShamari DeVoeLavaNatina ReedJenelopeChristophe BeckComposerStream
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