Amid all its convincing choreography and tossing bodies 20 feet into the air, Bring It On rides the line between satire and teenage dramedy. That’s a disastrous liminal space if handled carelessly.

| Jan 22, 2025

With its rapid-fire jokes, knowing sense of the absurd and impressive dance routines, this tonally perfect romp will have you cheering - and chuckling - from start to finish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2024

Much like “Mean Girls,” Peyton Reed sneaks in very subversive themes in to what is a well written and fun sports comedy.

| Sep 5, 2023

Under the film's spry surface and Kirsten Dunst's sunny smile, there's a brutal critique of the sports meritocracy (and, more broadly, meritocracy as a supposed system that justly rewards hard workers).

| Feb 16, 2022

Dunst was born to play Torrance, a perky, sunshiny girl who's basically cheerleading incarnate.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2022

Not quite the powder-puff fluff it might have been.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 24, 2020

"Perhaps the most unique thing about Bring It On is the way it realistically visualizes cultural appropriation."

| Aug 27, 2020

this does not hold up well at all

| Jun 22, 2020

There's nothing authentic about Bring It On, which is at its best when completely immersed in satirical superficiality.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 27, 2014

Smart, sassy movie, but expect raunchy humor, language.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

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.

| Jul 25, 2007

It's fluffy, it's predictable, and it's more than a little bit gratuitous, but Bring It On is also fun and pretty clever -- for a movie about high school cheerleading.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2006

The conclusion may be fairly obvious, but it's largely irrelevant in comparison to how uniquely Bring it On characterizes its teens.

| Aug 1, 2006

Lightweight, but unexpectedly feelgood.

| Jun 24, 2006

The film just didn't do much to me.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 12, 2006

This is one of the most likable [teen films] ever made not starring John Cusack

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

...the movie coasts along on a surprisingly clever script and sure-handed direction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 1, 2003

There may not be any championships in store for this film, but it's definitely a winner.

| Original Score: B | May 22, 2003