Review: Bring It On: All Or Nothing (D+)

Bring It On: All Or Nothing (2006)
Directed By Steve Rash
Starring Hayden Panettiere, Solange Knowles-Smith and Rihanna
MPAA: PG-13
Grade: D+

Review by Bobby Nashville

"Go ye mighty Pirates! Go, fight, win! Britney's hot as sin!" - Pirates Cheerleaders

"Look at my life, I'm such a cutie and everyone wants some Pirate booty!" - Britney

"You'll use three wishes to see me shake it, cause I'm delicious!" - Camille

Maybe it's me, but high school kids are way different today. Back in my day, high school cheers were about touchdowns and pushing back the other team. Now, it's all about booties and being hot. Apparently, (if you believe Bring It On: All Or Nothing), girls in high school are totally obsessed with weight issues and calling each other whores. Oh wait, maybe kids ARE like my old high school. Just not as open about it. And our cheerleaders back then didn't dance like strippers and cheer about their asses or fake implants. Believe me, I don't have anything against strippers. I just think they belong in the clubs, and not on the high school cheerleading squad.



Bring It On: All Or Nothing is the third in the Bring It On series, based on the original Bring It On film (actually a good one) that starred Kirsten Dunst. I missed the last one (Bring It On Again), but since I enjoyed the original, I was prepared to give Bring It On: All Or Nothing a fair shot. Unfortunately, this high energy teen-flick doesn't really compare to the original. It also is so obsessed with teen weight issues, breast implants and overall appearances that it could give your daughter a serious complex (just in case the current Paris Hilton/Lindsey Lohan/Olsen twins glamification doesn't already).

As for the script of Bring It On: All Or Nothing, it's pretty boiler plate. Teens face crisis, teens strain their friendships but can renew friendships and triumph over their problems by winning the high stakes Cheer Off! Gee, I wonder how this one ends? The acting is actually not that bad, so kudos to Solange Knowles-Smith here. On the downside, the product tie-ins are non-stop (call Cingular now!) and they don't even try to hide them. Ridiculous.

Anyway, Bring It On: All Or Nothing does not contain the somewhat intelligent script and dialogue of the original, so it doesn't really work for adults. It's also way too concerned about being thin, busty and bitchy to be appropriate for young girls. So, this one doesn't really work for us. Does anyone remember the Will Ferrell/Cheri O'Teri skit about the "perfect cheer"? Way better in my opinion.

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