Bring It On!

Finally a reviewer with some taste. ~NiceMann 'Bring It On' not worth caring, er, cheering about By Ray Huffaker Daily Evergreen (Thursday, September 7, 2000) (U-WIRE) PULLMAN, Wash. -- Kirsten Dunst, star of the new cheerleading movie "Bring It On," has been desperately trying to kill her career ever since her big break as the girl in "Interview With A Vampire." Here is a fun game for all you kids out there: Choose your favorite horrible movie that Kirsten Dunst has stared in! Is it "Jumanji?" Or maybe "Small Soldiers?" How about "Getting Over Allison," her forthcoming romantic comedy co-starring "thong tha thong thong thong"-man Sisqo? Does the fun ever stop? In keeping with the low standard set by Dunst in her previous films, "Bring It On" also is an extraordinarily bad movie. Dunst plays Torrance, captain of the cheerleading squad at her preppie, upper-class high school in suburban San Diego. The squad has won numerous national championships by stealing cheers and moves from the inner-city East Compton High Clovers squad. The movie builds bad jokes, corny dialogue and suspense, all leading up to a dramatic, all-out cheerleading war between Torrance's squad and the Clovers at the national championships. Three of the Clovers cheerleaders are played by the three members of the R&B group Blaque. Blaque is best known for their hit song "Bring It All To Me," where special guest JC of N'Sync sings, "Are you feelin' my Tims, my baggy jeans, my thug appeal?" Thug appeal? Do thugs really sing and dance in shiny outfits in McDonald's commercials? N'Sync has less thug appeal than Billy Bob Thorton, Puff Daddy and your casserole-baking, bootie-knitting, 87-year old grandmother combined. Even Christina Aguilera is more likely to pull out the ax and cut you up than N'Sync. Actually, Christina Aguilera and "Bring It On" have quite a bit in common. They both look good, but there is not much substance underneath the outer fluff. "Bring It On" was probably meant to be a scathing indictment of popularity in high school, full of wit and biting satire. Unfortunately, the movie becomes bogged down with the same mindlessness and reinforcement of teen stereotypes plaguing the movies "Bring It On" would like to spoof. Perhaps the only redeeming quality of "Bring It On," other than the fact it does not co-star Sisqo, is that most of the cheerleaders are hot. The whole movie is filled with attractive people, except for Torrance's little brother (played by Cody McMains), who is the ugliest non-gorilla to ever appear on the big screen. Thus, "Bring It On" is successful only as 98 minutes of eye candy. Shallow praise, indeed, but fitting for such a shallow movie. __________________ [cable guy]That's gonna be a good one![/cabla goola] I do have to disagree with one line in that review, Christina Aguilera, as much as I hate everything she stands for (does she stand for anything? Who cares, she's hot!), is both attractive AND has just an incredible voice. People compare her to Spears, but that voice can just get up and down the range with so little effort! Marvelous. And she's quite pulchritudinious. That'll be the new "apprise", I'm sure... __________________ oh well, sounds better than the cell __________________ Guess we know what kind of people go see movies. This movie has been numero uno for the past two weeks. . . what is the world coming to? __________________ I watched this movie the other night and it just plain sucked. It almost wasn't even worth burning the 2nd half. (Did I say that outloud?) Uh.. I mean if I had it, which I don't, it almost wouldn't be worth burning the 2nd half. __________________ you should literally burn the movie, it needs to disappear __________________ Quote: Originally posted by att you should literally burn the movie, it needs to disappear 90" __________________ Yeah, I agree. That movie is really really good. 2 thumbs up...my ass __________________ Kirsten Dunst looks hot in Maxim. Enough said. __________________ I love how the review seems to stay so focused despite that fact that the reviewer isn't even talking about the movie half the time. Wonderful. That's my style of writing. I always do that writing papers at school. Professors don't seem to appreciate it though. __________________ Contrary to what coleslaw has previously stated...Kirsten Dunst definetly does not look hot in Maxim...in fact I was quite disappointed when I looked at the cover this month...she is just plain ugly, she looks as though she fell off the ugly tree and hit every branch onthe way down, it looks as though she was hit in the face with the ugly bat (is that even a saying) wahtever, if there was such such a bat it would have most definetly hit Ms. Dunst in the face. She is not worthy of the Maxim cover, I admit her body is 'aight, but thats where it ends. Speaking of ends, that might have been an improvement, if they had her pose in every picture standing backwards.. __________________ How can you not like the pic on the cover? Or the other one where she was wearing that outfit. Man, she was quite possibly the best one since Kristy Swanson. Kirsten may be dumb, but she's up near the top of my list any day.... Blu