It's a cute idea. he's the super quarterback of the high school football team and she's the leader of the cheerleading squad and together they're a match made in heaven. They're also going to be parents at the ripe old age of seventeen. `Oh, what's a girl to do?' How about gather together your cheerleading squad and rob banks.
Cute it is, but since the bank robbing doesn't take place until the last half of the film you're left with another campy movie about naïve high school kids battling for popularity. There are a few laughable moments but most of the scenes are as boring to watch as actual cheerleading tryouts. Not even a rousing rendition of `We've Got Spirit' could breathe life back into this yawner.
The performances are all quite adequate but nothing more. Marsden is a cliched dope surrounded by swooning girls and ignorant jocks while Mena Suvari, as beautiful as she is, only recreates her role from `American Beauty' as a rebelious cheerleader.
The look and feel of the entire film carries a bit of cheapness to it, emphasizing the fact that this a first time director who may have a long road ahead of her. Only making it worse, many of the interior scenes look as if they take place in a cardboard box.
Sometimes a cute idea is only that... a cute idea.
2 out of 5
Cute it is, but since the bank robbing doesn't take place until the last half of the film you're left with another campy movie about naïve high school kids battling for popularity. There are a few laughable moments but most of the scenes are as boring to watch as actual cheerleading tryouts. Not even a rousing rendition of `We've Got Spirit' could breathe life back into this yawner.
The performances are all quite adequate but nothing more. Marsden is a cliched dope surrounded by swooning girls and ignorant jocks while Mena Suvari, as beautiful as she is, only recreates her role from `American Beauty' as a rebelious cheerleader.
The look and feel of the entire film carries a bit of cheapness to it, emphasizing the fact that this a first time director who may have a long road ahead of her. Only making it worse, many of the interior scenes look as if they take place in a cardboard box.
Sometimes a cute idea is only that... a cute idea.
2 out of 5