A Review of Bring it On: Fight to the Finish

A review of Bring It On: Fight to the Finish
By JustiN Orion Neal Taylor

The first five minutes made me say, “Okay nobody behaves like that in real life.” Nobody has an impromptu dance fight at the drop of a hat, as a for instance. Of course, I was rewarded with the reveal that it was in fact, a dream sequence. The fact that this was not the only point where I had the exact same incredulous reaction ought to count against it.

For whatever reason, I actually did enjoy this movie. It’s a sports movie about competitive cheerleading. It’s about a team of plucky upstarts versus a team of haughty established champs. Guess who wins?

The dialogue had problems. It tries to be hip. It comes off as feeling fake.

Christina Milian, the female lead, is according to the box cover copy some sort of singer when she’s not making movies. Somehow, she can act though. At least enough for me to buy her as a high school cheerleader, even though she’s somewhere in her mid to late twenties and never did any of this cheerleader stuff before making this movie.

As a sort of comedy most of the jokes kinda worked. The most effective one was in the deleted scenes, a scene where the cheerleaders fake a drive by shooting, though. I actually laughed out loud during that one. Most of the movie prompted only minor chuckles, if that.

Somehow I liked this movie overall. Call it three out of five stars.