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2000 Certificate 12
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Stellar Kirsten Dunst, as cheerleading captain Torrance Shipman, leads six-time defending cheerleading champions the Toros against a talented inner-city squad, the East Compton Clovers, in BRING IT ON. The film presents a lighthearted, slightly quirky exploration of the cutthroat but perky world of professional cheerleading .. Read more

Starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford, Gabrielle Union
Director Peyton Reed
Genres Comedy

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Bring It On

Stellar Kirsten Dunst, as cheerleading captain Torrance Shipman, leads six-time defending cheerleading champions the Toros against a talented inner-city squad, the East Compton Clovers, in BRING IT ON. The film presents a lighthearted, slightly quirky exploration of the cutthroat but perky world of professional cheerleading competitions.
Only days after taking over the reins of her hallowed suburban high school squad, Torrance is presented with the ugly truth about her team's success when a new recruit, Missy (Eliza Dushku), a semi-outcast gymnast, realizes that the Toros' cheer was stolen from another team. Missy takes Torrance to inner-city L.A. to see the same routine being performed by the East Compton Clovers. The Clovers throw down the gauntlet; they are going to challenge the Toros for the national championship on ESPN 2. As if having to find new cheers were not enough trouble, Torrance also has romantic decisions to make: She has to choose between her oily but pretty current boyfriend and Missy's less popular but rocking brother, Cliff (Jesse Bradford).
BRING IT ON melds a hint of the satire in such movies as SMILE and DROP DEAD GORGEOUS with the competitive fire of films such as THE KARATE KID and WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP to provide a captivating story enhanced by the engaging performance of rising star Dunst.

Starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford, Gabrielle Union, Clare Kramer
Director Peyton Reed
Studio BOULEVARD ENTERTAIMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 34 mins
Certificate Certificate 12
Collections 100 Feisty Females
Genres Comedy
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 01 Oct 2007
Production year: 2000
Format DVD

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    Kirsten Dunst swaps the cut-throat world of beauty pageants (Drop Dead Gorgeous) for the equally competitive arena of high-school cheerleading in this comedy. Torrance Shipman (Dunst) takes over as leader of a crack San Diego high-school squad whose prowess is in stark contrast to the shambolic football team they support. Things don't go smoothly, culminating in the discovery that their winning routine was actually stolen from a rival squad. Dunst decides to break the rules by hiring a professional choreographer to put together a new routine. Will her plan succeed? Billed as Rocky with pom-poms, Peyton Reed's film could do with the sharp satirical edge of, say, Election. Instead, it ends up a too-straightforward chronicle of a somewhat parochial pastime.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Torrance (Dunst), captain of the Toro cheerleading squad at a San Diego high school, is hellbent on taking the team to... read more on Time Out

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    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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    Rated - 5 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    superb..................

    this dvd is superb. Kirsten Dunst plays Torrance Shipman, the new head cheerleader for the Toros, who discovers that all the routines that they have been using to win their National Cheerleading Championships, have been stolen from another school, the East Compton Clovers, who are led by Gabrielle Union as Isis.

    We have to watch to see which cheerleading team is really number 1. Meanwhile, Torrance is accused of getting too lovey dovey with Cliff Patone (played by Jesse Bradford!), the new smart kid in school, whose sister Missy (played by Eliza Dushku) joins the squad, because there is no gymnastics team.

    But in the end it comes down to the final round at the Nationals, as the two squads try to out do one another, in what is essentially a recruiting film for high school cheerleading.

    well worth watching.

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    Rated - 4 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Bring it on and on and on!

    My girls loved this movie and watched it over and over again, for the cheerleading scenes during the tournaments which are really quite acrobatic and impressive! Some funny scenes involving Sparky the choreographer, and the sunny Kirsten Dunst as Captain of the team, make for a really good movie. Worth a watch.

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      • LuckyLegs from Stockton-on-Tees
      • Posted 27 Mar 2009 17:25

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