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This earnest and arch story -- so fast paced its formulas are wonderfully obscured -- has an adolescent energy and a tempered sexuality, and it's infused with the moral agenda of a warmly didactic sitcom.

-Lisa AlspectorFull Review

Who would have thought that a film about competing cheerleading squads would turn out to be the one very pleasant surprise in this very dismal summer season of moviegoing?

-Kevin CourrierFull Review

Dunst can't really hold pic together.

-Robert KoehlerFull Review

The problem with the film is that others have done its routine before, and have done it better.

-Vicky Edwards

The tart, taut script by first-time screenwriter Jessica Bendinger is stuffed with such deliciously mean dialogue.

-Michael O'SullivanFull Review

Crackling good script, sharply directed.

-Kevin ThomasFull Review

Based on energy, the film is a 10. Its script? Give it a five.

-(CNN.com) Paul ClintonFull Review

Based on energy, the film is a 10. Its script? Give it a five.

-Paul Clinton (CNN.com)Full Review

Bring It On ... isn't awful. It simply lacks focus, energy and spirit, definite negs in the cheerleading world.

-Curtis Morgan

[Dunst is] the big reason the film rises above instantly rejectable formula to campy pop.

-Jay Carr

Needed more work on its vim and vigor.

-Bob LonginoFull Review

It's another one of those high school pics that don't really have much bearing on the real world. But as fluffy adolescent fantasy, it's better than most.

-Steven Rea

A pretty good movie aside from all the cheese.

-David EdelsteinFull Review

Truly lame dialogue.

-Peter StackFull Review

Pare away the vaguely salacious cheers and the occasional four-letter comebacks, and you have a Nickelodeon after-school special.

-Glenn Lovell

An enjoyable fluffernutter, and smarter than one might expect.

-Jan Stuart

Not bad for an August release, if you're between the ages of 12 and 19, or imagine you are.

-Robert Horton

Essentially a feature-length commercial for both the growing sport of competitive cheerleading and ESPN2.

-Jonathan Foreman

The ending leads to an inevitable sense of dissatisfaction.

-James BerardinelliFull Review

The fact that a bouncy teenage sports comedy can even gesture toward serious matters of race and economic inequality is pretty impressive, as is the occasional snarl of genuine satire.

-A.O. ScottFull Review

We get a strange mutant beast, half Nickelodeon movie, half R-rated comedy. It's like kids with potty-mouth playing grownup.

-Roger EbertFull Review

This film stands out -- not as an original (its focus on fierce competition is nothing new), but as a well-executed story with likable characters and fresh flourishes.

-Bruce WestbrookFull Review

Imperfect it may be, but as Courtney and Whitney might say, it puts the cheer in cheerleader.

-Susan Wloszczyna

A surprisingly funny, sharp and good-natured comedy starring an actress who's good enough to actually make you like a teeny girl with pompoms and really good hair.

-Caitlin Cleary

It almost makes a gal want to stand up and cheer. Nah.

-Rita KempleyFull Review

Bring It On is no more than a trifle. But it moves along entertainingly right through to the end credit sequence, and its heart is in just the right place.

-Charles TaylorFull Review

The movie ends with a collection of outtakes, and even those aren't funny. Maybe that's because the whole film is sort of like an outtake.

-Jay Boyar

Bring It On is the most exuberantly funny and smartest teen movie this summer, which is something to cheer about.

-Sean Means

Some of the wittiest dialogue to trip an adolescent tongue since Clueless.

-Kevin Maynard


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