Movie · Netflix · 2000
Bring It On
A light movie that accidentally tells the truth about stolen work. The rest is a pep rally.
Torrance is the head of a machine that has been stealing from a Black squad in East Compton, and the film is sharp enough to make that the problem rather than a background joke. It is not sharp about much else. The romance is nothing. The body jokes are dated. The one scene worth a house is the one where she admits the trophies were not theirs.
Older children can watch it if you are willing to talk about credit: who did the work, and whose name went on it. Do not pretend it is a serious picture.
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Industry
6/10
Practice is the plot. The theft is treated as a real offense against someone else's labor.
Household
4/10
Families are offstage. Teammates are the household, for better and worse.
Piety
2/10
No reverence. The spirit stick is the idol, and the movie half knows it.
Courage
5/10
She tells her own squad they are cheats. That costs her the room she liked.
Republic
5/10
Two schools, and the richer one has been living off the poorer one's skill.
Temperance
4/10
The film is horny in the way of its year, and proud of it.
Truth
5/10
The confession is the plot turn, not a footnote.
Stewardship
4/10
A routine is a thing you owe to the people who made it. The movie gets that far.
Live historicallyPut someone else's name on a piece of work they actually did, somewhere it will be seen.
