Bring It On: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Rita Kempley Washington Post (Top Critic)

60

It almost makes a gal want to stand up and cheer. Nah.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

We get a strange mutant beast, half Nickelodeon movie, half R-rated comedy. It's like kids with potty-mouth playing grownup.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

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.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)

Dunst can't really hold pic together.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Jonathan Foreman New York Post (Top Critic)

Essentially a feature-length commercial for both the growing sport of competitive cheerleading and ESPN2.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

The movie ends with a collection of outtakes, and even those aren't funny. Maybe that's because the whole film is sort of like an outtake.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kevin Courrier Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

75

Who would have thought that a film about competing cheerleading squads would turn out to be the one very pleasant surprise in this very dismal summer season of moviegoing?
Full Review » 10 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

60

Smart and sassy movie marred by raunchy humor.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Rumsey Taylor Not Coming to a Theater Near You

The conclusion may be fairly obvious, but it's largely irrelevant in comparison to how uniquely Bring it On characterizes its teens.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Time Out

Lightweight, but unexpectedly feelgood.
Full Review » 6 years ago
JoBlo JoBlo's Movie Emporium

50

The film just didn't do much to me.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Ron Wells Film Threat

70

This is one of the most likable [teen films] ever made not starring John Cusack
Full Review » 6 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

75

...the movie coasts along on a surprisingly clever script and sure-handed direction.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Eugene Novikov Film Blather

67

There may not be any championships in store for this film, but it's definitely a winner.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jeanne Aufmuth Palo Alto Weekly

50

The dancing is well choreographed, but the story would have better succeeded in choosing an angle or two and sticking with it.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle

50

A moderately entertaining, mostly inoffensive piece of filmmaking.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

70

The cheering is occasionally spectacular and the principals' acting is above the material.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Nick Davis Nick's Flick Picks

75

Bring It On amazes not just for its political sophistication but for its refusal to beg credit points for being smart.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Stephanie Zacharek Sight and Sound

Bring It On spins off one sly little joke after another, and the smart ensemble makes every one of them work.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Matthew Turner ViewLondon

40

Nowhere near funny enough to succeed as a comedy, nor serious enough to work as a drama.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer

38

Not ''about'' anything, unless you count obsessive shots of nubile, scantily clad bodies in motion.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Betty Jo Tucker ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Three cheers for Bring It On.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Sanford James Sanford on Film

sassy fun, with a script by first-time screenwriter Jessica Bendinger that's almost shockingly sophisticated for a film destined to play almost exclusively to teens.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Wade Major Boxoffice Magazine

50

For as much as it fails on every conceivable level as a movie, the fact that it never really knows how bad it is gives it an almost irresistibly idiotic charm.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Paula Nechak Seattle Post-Intelligencer

42

There's hardly a shred of fresh material in this latest cinematic expose on cheerleading.
Full Review » 10 years ago