Movie Reviews: "Bring It On"

[Ron Turner]

From IMDB News.

It may be intended as a teen comedy, but many critics are suggesting that there
is a lot that adults will like about Peyton Reed's Bring It On, starring
Kirsten Dunst as a high school cheerleader. Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street
Journal, for example, writes: "You might not expect a movie about cheerleaders
to be witty or wry, let alone thoughtful, but Bring It On is that." Kevin
Courrier in the Toronto Globe and Mail also finds much to cheer about. "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?" he writes, adding that the film "is simply a beautifully crafted
piece of commercial filmmaking." Susan Wloszczyna in USA Today begins her
review this way: "Give me an F, give me a U, give me an N-N-Y. What's that
spell? Bring It On, a surprise late-summer bright spot." The chorus of cheers
do contain a few off-notes, but of all the leading critics, only Roger Ebert of
the Chicago Sun-Times sits on his hands. In fact, much of his review winds up
as an attack on the motion picture ratings board for allowing this film to be
released with a PG-13 label. He concludes his review this way: "The [MPAA's]
principle seems to be: As long as we act sanctimonious by creating a climate in
which legitimate adult films cannot be made, we can get away with maximizing
the box office by opening up the PG-13. The MPAA in the summer of 2000 reveals
itself as more willing to peddle smut to children than to allow adults to make
their own choices."

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[3finger]

In article <20000825144038...@ng-bd1.aol.com>,
rbt...@aol.com (Ron Turner) wrote:

I read Ebert's review, and the above note from the imDB misses a bit of
the point. Ebert criticizes the rating for the movie not only because of
the material that made it into the film under the wire, but also because
he felt the movie would have been much better had it been allowed to
have the R rating and thus include material that would have improved it.
I was ready to pounce on him for becoming an instant prude until I read
his entire article. While I haven't seen the film yet, what he wrote
sounds more like him.

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Just my opinion, thanks to the Constitution,
3finger

[Ron Turner]

>I read Ebert's review, and the above note from the imDB misses a bit of
>the point. Ebert criticizes the rating for the movie not only because of
>the material that made it into the film under the wire, but also because
>he felt the movie would have been much better had it been allowed to
>have the R rating and thus include material that would have improved it.
>I was ready to pounce on him for becoming an instant prude until I read
>his entire article. While I haven't seen the film yet, what he wrote
>sounds more like him.
>

Ebert said the same thing about "Coyote Ugly". He thinks both movies are great
as R-rated movies for adults, but trashes the hell out of them for pandering to
kids.