Girls United Again (Video 2004)

Girls United Again: Directed by Damon Santostefano. With Anne Judson-Yager, Bree Turner, Kevin Cooney, Faune Chambers Watkins. When new students can’t get onto their college cheerleading team, they form their own squad and prepare for a cheer off.

“I didnu0026#39;t expect much from Bring It On Again. In fact, I only watched it because I was under the impression that Jaime Pressly was in it, which was not the case (OK, so I confused Bring It On Again with Not Another Teen Movie – can you blame me?). But I kept watching, despite the u0026quot;poor manu0026#39;s Reese Witherspoonu0026quot; in the lead. And lo and behold, the movie is actually nowhere near as bad as people here have been claiming. It is more of a comedy than the first movie, and there is one big thing that ties it together with the first movie, which I think most people have overlooked: Both movies are saying that cheer-leading is NOT COOL. Both movies are going out of their way to show that cheer-leading is as shallow as anything can be, and clearly pointing to a dozen other things that are far cooler, but which happen not to be the focus of this particular comedy. Thatu0026#39;s actually pretty funny. These movies are not as empty-headed as they first seem.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe lead girl in the sequel first struck me as very boring in a u0026quot;girl next dooru0026quot; type of way, but I have to admit she grew into the part very well and achieved the confidence of character to come across as a convincingly cool cheerleader (in the comedy setting, I mean) towards the end. Ultimately, she was an actress rather than just a pretty face, and that is to be commended, considering that this was a mere straight-to-video release. Somebody in the production team actually had the ambition to create a quite serious, well-written, well-structured piece of work – and they succeeded.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI rated the first movie a 7, and this one, surprisingly, qualifies for as much as a 6, despite the ludicrous end performance (apparently comprised by an almost entirely new team). It was fun. Quite an achievement, all things considered.”