Le tout pour le tout: gagner ou mourir

I watched the first Bring it On way back and i think i watched just one of the sequels (the one with Hayden Panettiere). Its not a franchise i am ultra fond of but i find the ones i watched entertaining for teen movies.

After many direct to video sequels, they tried something new with the concept and why not. Could be fun.

The issue is altought the story is fine, the location as well, and the kills are decent in numbers, they are just not memorable AT ALL. The movie is almost bloodless, there is not much tension, i just didn't cared much for the characters either. And the concept of "cheer or die" is barely used.

Ultimately you end up with a very simple by the book cheap slasher movie that you will watch once and be like "meh... it passed time".

Rating Breakdown Story - 0.50 :: Direction - 1.00 :: Pacing - 1.00 :: Performances - 1.25 :: Entertainment - 1.25 TOTAL - 5/10

Ah, cheerleaders. The unsung warriors of high school, flipping, twirling, and dodging a body count. Bring It On: Cheer or Die had the perfect setup to be a deliriously self-aware mash-up of Scream meets Bring It On, but instead tumbles awkwardly, landing somewhere between Scary Movie's forgotten drafts and a lesser episode of Glee.

The three writers have cobbled together a plot that is both astonishingly basic and fundamentally unbelievable. A group of high-kicking teens, for reasons best left unexplored, decide to practice overnight in an abandoned school, where a masked killer lurks, waiting to cut them down one by one. What could have been a hilarious, self-aware bloodbath instead shuffles towards mediocrity.

The characters are walking, talking clichés, with psychopaths Marlowe and Makena Zimmerman chewing the scenery with reckless abandon. Their unhinged performances provide rare enjoyment, but they are shackled to a script that insists on taking itself just seriously enough to be frustrating. The so-called comedy leans heavily on the tired Camp Homosexual trope, because apparently, sassy, flamboyant side characters are still considered peak humour in some circles. Any remaining laughs come from moments so over-the-top they achieve unintentional brilliance; think Showgirls but with pom-poms and murder.

Missi Pyle, a consistently scene-stealing actress, is bafflingly underused. The film hints at a deliciously demented "Mommy's Psycho Lessons" subplot that could have elevated the material, but like a botched pyramid stunt, it collapses into nothing.

Director Karen Lam does what she can with a weak script, using shadows, long hallways, and grimy school doors to manufacture tension. There is a sense she knows what the film should be: A gory, outrageous, tongue-in-cheek ride, but she is held back by a screenplay too timid to embrace its own absurdity.

Bring It On: Cheer or Die could have been a blood-spattered cheer-fest, the kind of horror-comedy that earns cult status through sheer audacity. Instead, it feels stuck in limbo, torn between fun self-awareness and forgettable nostalgia bait. Is it entertaining? Sure, in the way that watching a train nearly derail is entertaining. Worth a watch? Perhaps, but much like a cheerleader attempting a backflip in a horror movie, it just does not stick the landing.

I'm hoping that this is the marker that rebooting the franchise to the level of theatrical release is around the corner. Bring It On has fallen far from its initial 2000's installation but most of the sequels have had some campy aspect to offer in terms of entertainment but this, oh boy, is by far the worst sequel yet. Doing a campy horror/comedy with the concept is fairly easy but its clear that this was given the most minimal of budgets giving it just above the ranks of a film school thesis project. And where are the jokes? For this to be a comedy i did not chuckle ONCE. This is definitely not the kind of film you watch alone, this is a group venture with ample breaks and talking to break up the monotony. There are some cast members that have a chance of this being a spring board for future projects but even that might be a stretch.

Terrible movie, acting is dreadful, storyline is awful the film from start to finish is a complete waste of time, disaster movie 2008 is rated a 1.9 and it is legit a better movie than this the rating I give is very kind for how bad this is.

If you want to watch a good horror movie do a google search or jump into here and look into it more I just clicked on not thinking more so for my wife and I honestly complained all the way through hahah there is a part from someone who is acting deaf in the movie and he is probably the best actor out of all of them but yeah just don't watch this unless you want to be disappointed.

I've been in a slasher movie kind of mood as of late. I watched New Year's Evil the night before last and To All a Good Night shortly before that. I decided to pay a visit to the Redbox because I noticed that two out of the three locations that my town had were removed without warning. Much to my surprise I saw that they had Cheer or Die.... because I heard that it was supposed to air on the SyFy Channel around Halloween. This movie is pretty much a bloodless affair and is so tame.... that with some tinkering.... this could've easily obtained a PG rating and premiered on Disney+. The movie contains almost a dozen death scenes.... none of which are particular memorable.... but I did find it odd that the killer brought a set of throwing knives to fling occasionally. This had the potential to be a decent time waster had they added gallons of blood and some creativity.... but this is barely a horror film as it stands.