| 83 |
Portland Oregonian
The newest, and probably first, true cheerleading movie.
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| 80 |
Film.com
The most exuberantly funny and smartest teen movie this summer, which is something to cheer about.
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| 77 |
Mr. Showbiz
Reed's manic direction rarely lets up between show-stopping cheer numbers.
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| 75 |
TNT RoughCut
Margueritte Pelissier
Jokes, cheerleading and a love story...not a bad way to spend a lazy afternoon.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Clever, slightly edgy fun.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
An army of rolled abs and their owners give the state of American race relations a beginner's workout.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
It is Ms. Dunst who carries the movie and unifies its disparate elements. She's a terrific comic actress.
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| 70 |
Salon.com
Unexpected late-summer treat.
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| 70 |
TV Guide
Engaging, high-spirited tale.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
Smart and sassy high school movie that's fun for all ages.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
It's an okay brat movie.
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| 63 |
USA Today
It could be worse.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
A likable, low-budget high school comedy.
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| 60 |
Washington Post
A spoofy paean to cheerfolk that has more bounce per flounce than most tales about teen queens.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Essentially a feature-length commercial for both the growing sport of competitive cheerleading and ESPN2 .
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| 50 |
Variety
Succeeds in displaying the physical drive and demands of cheerleading.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
Ron Dicker
Doesn't break any ground -- but it looks good in a tight sweater.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
The story is as simple as the average football cheer, but the dialogue has amusing echoes of "Clueless," and Dunst and Bradford make a mighty cute couple.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
She's (Dunst) the big reason the film rises above instantly rejectable formula to campy pop.
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| 50 |
Slate
Succeeds in dramatizing the resentment and guilt on all sides without just adding to the noise.
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| 50 |
Film.com
Enough pep in this picture to make it rise above teen-movie expectations.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
Has an adolescent energy and a tempered sexuality.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
A moderately entertaining, mostly inoffensive piece of filmmaking.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Predictable and surprisingly confusing in its ultimate message.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A strange mutant beast, half Nickelodeon movie, half R-rated comedy. It's like kids with potty-mouth playing grownup.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
She (Dunst) provides the only major element of Bring It On that plays as tweaking parody rather than slick, strident, body-slam churlishness.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Holly Willis
Starts strong, but then falters.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Vicky Edwards
Absurdly unrealistic at times.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
A movie of marginal ambition and multiple cute young faces.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Jumbled and stupid plot, bad acting and a few predictable gags that fall flat.
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| 10 |
Dallas Observer
Scott Kelton Jones
It's not until the plot surfaces that Bring It On really begins to suffer.
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