Product Description
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The Toro cheerleading squad has spirit, spunk, sass and a killer
routine that's sure to land them the national championship trophy
for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain,
Torrance (Kirsten Dunst), the Toro's road to cheer glory stumbles
when she discovers their perfectly choreographed routines were
stolen from a hot hip-hop squad across town. Now the squad must
scramble to find a new routine to compete in this year's
competition.
Bonus Content:
* Spotlight on Location: The Making of Bring It On
* Feature Commentary with Director Peyton Reed
* Deleted Scenes
* Extended Scenes
* Never-Before-Seen Home Movie of The Car Wash Scene
* Wardrobe and Makeup Tests
* Blaque "As If" Music Video
* DVD-ROM Features
* Theatrical Trailer
* Did You Know That? Universal's Animated Anecdotes
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Sunny, happy Torrance (Kirsten Dunst) is the new leader of the
Toros, the cheerleading squad of Rancho Carne, an affluent San
Diego high school that has lousy football players but one hell of
a cheerleading team. National champions, they're the ones who
bring in the bodies to the football games with their
award-winning moves and sassy grace, and they're poised to take
their sixth national cheer title. Torrance's new reign as cheer
queen, though, is cut short when she discovers that her snotty,
duplicitous forerunner was regularly stealing routines from the
East Compton Clovers, the hip-hop influenced cheerleaders of a
poor inner city school, and passing them off as the original work
of the Toros. Scrambling to come up with a new routine for the
Toros--and do the right thing by giving the Clovers their
due--Torrance butts heads with the proud and understandably wary
Isis (Gabrielle Union), the leader of the Clovers, who wants
nothing to do with a rich blond white girl, but does want to get
her squad to the championships. Problem is, only one team can
take home the national title. Who's it gonna be?
An unexpected box-office hit in the late summer of 2000, Bring
It On is a smart, snappy teen comedy that bristles with good
cheer (literally) and lively, down-to-earth characters. The story
may be fairly predictable (who's going to win the big
championship?), but director Peyton Reed and screenwriter Jessica
Bendinger have ed out their characters with formidable
strength and provided them with sharp dialogue. Dunst is a
radiant comedian, projecting warmth, determination, sincerity,
and a sublime airheadedness, and Union is an impressive dancer
and counterpart to Dunst, matching her admirably despite her
limited onscreen time. An excellent young supporting cast rounds
out the film, most notably Eliza Dushku (Faith of Buffy the
Vampire Slayer) and Jesse Bradford (Steven Soderbergh's King of
the Hill) as siblings new to Rancho Carne, who become Torrance's
best friend and potential new boyfriend, respectively. All in
all, a pleasantly surprising and intelligent teen movie. Don't
miss the opening sequence, a hilarious send-up of all those high
school cheerleading routines you had to sit through at boring pep
rallies. --Mark Englehart