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Starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, et al. Released to DVD on February 13, 2001. "Let's face it," the ESPN 2 announcer said, "Any sport that combines gymnastics, dance and short skirts is okay by me." And thus the appeal is created for this otherwise rather standard, formulaic teen flick, Bring it On. Slumming here, Kirsten Dunst stars as Torrance, the rising senior captain of the Rancho Del Toro High School Toro's, the five time national cheerleading champs of the United Cheerleading Association. Torrance is preparing herself for a great senior year of school and cheering when she realizes that the team's cheer routines have all been lifted from the East Compton cheerleading demonstrations. When East Compton learns of this, the rivalry between the two high schools is formed, setting up the heated competition necessary to keep the audience's attention. Bring It On was a reasonably entertaining movie, but not for the reasons one might expect. Tangentially included in this dramatic cheerleading story were numerous moments of real life and some of the most accurate and humorous portrayals of brother and sister relationships in Hollywood. Torrance's own relationship with her younger brother was what generated most of Bring It On's laughs for me. The dynamic of the two siblings was rife with the palpable sense of torment that each wanted to bring to the other. Compared to this interaction and the friction between the male cheerleaders and the football team, the cheerleading tryouts, practices and competitions were a little bit of a drop off in the overall excitement level. This wasn't a bad film by any stretch of the imagination, Bring It On just didn't do much to bring itself to the next tier of teen films. Worst of all, the phenomenon of the ?fake smile' was never once explained.
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