Bring It On: Fight to the Finish
July. 31,2009 PG-13When her mother falls for a wealthy man, Lina Cruz must move in with her new stepfather and transfer from an urban East Los Angeles public high school to an exclusive prep school in Malibu, where she struggles to fit in with her affluent new peers. After snooty cheerleading captain Avery blocks Lina from varsity, Lina recruits her best friends from her old school to help her whip the pathetic junior varsity cheerleading squad -- the Sea Lions -- into fighting shape.
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This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
I created an IMDb account specifically because of this movie. My teenage daughter made me sit through this. In terms of awful, this is right up there with Sandlot 2. I can give you my review in two words: Shoot. Me.
How this series has managed to spawn five direct to video sequels, is beyond me, because the 1st didn't even warrant a sequel, even thought it was somewhat enjoyable. Fight To The Finish gets by on it's likable characters and enthusiasm, in an otherwise, pretty bland entry. One thing that bugged me about this movie, and all of the rest is, every Bring It On movie, has seemingly started with a horrible dream sequence from the lead character, why is that? they look corny. Thankfully the film strays away from the racial tension for the most part. It's just so clichéd now a days, having all the racial tension. Christina Milian makes for the best lead since, Hayden Panettiere. She's not a spoiled brat, and made a very likable lead. Fight to the Finish, is of course predictable. When you've seen one of these movies, you've pretty much seen them all. Heroine forms a cheer leading squad, who encounters the spoiled brat from the other team, only to challenge them near the end. I Got pretty much what I bargained for, but thankfully it wasn't as bad as I expected.Performances. Christina Milian is surprisingly a likable and charismatic lead. She's far from great, but she manages to be less whiny then most of the heroines, and that made the film much more bearable, as a result. Cody Longo is better then most of the male love interests that are in this series, but that's not really a compliment. His chemistry with Milian is OK. Rachele Brooke Smith has to be the most bland foe, I have seen in the series. She gave a boring performance, and as a result, I was bored watching her. Holland Roden is a little underdeveloped as Skylar, I would have liked to have learned more about her, because her character had potential.Bottom line. Fight To The Finish was a harmless watch. A little too bland for my liking at times, but It's one of the better DTV sequels in the series. That being said, I really hope they stop here. Worth a check, if your big into the series5/10
As a fellow All Star Cheerleader review I found this movie one of the worst cheer movies ever! The cheerleaders were more like grinding and not cheering for one thing, and also portrayed cheerleaders like slutty witchy girls. As the years of Bring It On movies go on and on, the acting, plot lines and everything gets crappier and crappier, no doubt they will make another crap Bring It On movie, but this one will have to do with one of the worsts so far. This one happens to be Christina Millan's character from LA gets an AMAZING opportunity to live in Malibu and acts like a total snob about how she doesn't want to live there and acts witchy to everyone and about everything, she dresses trashy throughout the movie in skimpy and inappropriate clothes. ALSO this movie had horrible Lation accents and the movie also made very degrading and almost racist comments. If you do See the movie, you will see what I mean...
Growing up as an all star taught me more, than what all Bring It On movies put together. Yeah, I'll sit down and watch them, and have some fun with it, but the whole time I watch it, I think of all the illegal things or goofs that are happening as I watch it. As cheerleader, you should know 3 basic things, every competition is categorized by age requirements, skills, and size. Cheerleaders should also know that there are levels that in the all star world limit skills. Most of the baskets completed were illegal to any team that is level 5 or under, the stunts portray more traditional college stunts or level 6 teams. The movie doesn't focus on cheerleading basics like stretch stunting or tumbling or jumping, 3 very important aspects that cheerleaders are graded on for each performance. Plus to be an all star requires money. Since many viewers are cheerleaders, I hope you're not as disappointed as me, but since I am also a cheerleading coach for all stars and pop warner, this movie got me angry in so many ways.