Bring It On Again
When new students can't get onto their college cheerleading team, they form their own squad and prepare for a cheer off.
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- Cast:
- Anne Judson-Yager , Bree Turner , Kevin Cooney , Faune Chambers Watkins , Bryce Johnson , Richard Lee Jackson , Bethany Joy Lenz
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Memorable, crazy movie
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
I actually liked this movie quite a bit. It wasn't better than the first one, but sequels rarely are.In this movie, we're moving from high school to college. Where the stakes are even higher. Whittier has just started college. And she's been dreaming of getting on the cheerleading squad, The Stingers, along with her best friend Monica. But after getting on the team, they find out that the head captain, Tina, is a raging b**tch. So they eventually quite the squad. They then start their own squad, with all the people who were in clubs, that got shut down. Like the drama club and the ballet club. That money went to the cheerleading squad instead. So they were happy to help. Since only one cheerleading squad can represent the school, the Stingers go up against the Renegades to battle for the spot.Overall, I give this movie a 7 out of 10.
In any industry you try to do things cheaper and faster for the consumer so you can compete with the guy across the street. Whether you're operating a laundromat, barber shop, pizza place, grocery store, or you're a major conglomerate with a movie studio as one of your holdings, you try to cut back on costs and boost your profits. It's competition the American way.So what on Earth does that have to do with a sequel to a movie about cheerleaders? Well, in movies it's no different. Only here that theorem backfired: Once you have a smash hit of a film, it's your job, as a producer, to capitalize off that film's success by seeing if you can duplicate that success with a leaner and more improved product. You cut the budget, higher a second rate screenwriter, cast B-list talent, skimp on the shooting schedule which means the director and DP don't have time to setup much needed shots, which also means there isn't enough money to higher all extra material and personnel that made your first film such a huge success. Result; a film that has all of the earmarks of the previous feature, but lacks meat and its own legs to stand on. There are exceptions to that rule, but they're rare.So it is with "Bring it on Again", a story about a cheerleader who arrives at some no-name state college, finds herself ostracized after being associated with the wrong crowd, and now has to fight (cheer?) her way back into the hearts and minds of her peers to ultimate cheer- leading triumph.It's a cheap sequel meant to capitalize off of Peyton Reed's very entertaining high school genre film of four years before, but the social schism being addressed is never fully explored, the plot is pretty outrageous and borders on the realms of science fiction, poor Anne Judson-Yager is in over her head without any real direction from 3rd string director Damon Santostefano, and overall the cast and crew aren't there to relive nor re-imagine the previous tale. No score, little to basic editing (essentially strewing together master shots), essentially no magic whatsoever save for the cheer-leading itself which seems okay (though I'm no expert in that area).Pass it up. Me, after donating my special edition "Bring It On" DVD to the library many years ago, I went ahead and blew some money on a three movie repackage deal that included the original film and two of its sequels, of which this film was one. Eh... it's ten bucks that could've gone into my gas tank. That's how I see it.Watch at your own risk.p.s. I wonder what Roger Coreman would've done with this script.
I'll just say that after watching this on TV i'm going to get it on DVD. Cute, light and funny. I think thats what it was supposed to be. Well acted for a movie that, i don't think, was supposed to be nominated for an Oscar. Casts timing was better than i expected, the dialogue was well posed for the most part and the interaction between the cast was balanced (for the most part) Its a teen movie with a nice flair for the unexpected and you definitely feel better after seeing it. I'm a big fan of movies that entertain..love all sorts of movies - from S.Kubrick to P.Jackson to B.Edwards and and although i've never heard of Damon Santostefano, director of BIOA and i don't expect to see any more of his movies, this one, Bring it on Again was a nice piece of work and my hats off to the four or five lead actors.
OK so the first bring it on movie was NOT the best movie ever made, but at least it was good and made sense....bring it on "again" was in my opinion a sequel from hell...i mean, it's OK if people like this movie, but compared to the first one, it had really no point to it other than that the new cheerleader gets in a cat fight with head cheerleader, new cheerleader forms a squad of people who didn't even seem to know wut cheerleading was, in like, 3 days she trains them from freaks to actual cheerleaders, they oddly "win"....blah blah blah..it's storyline is like, the exact same as the first one. I mean, it wasn't required to have the same characters, but it should've at least had the same spunk and flare like the original...i'm sorry but i wasn't impressed by this movie at all...