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4/10
Typical 70's exploitation flick
emdoub15 August 2005
Warning: Spoilers
It's the beginning of senior year, and the new girl in school is not only gorgeous, but she made the cheer-leading squad. There's only one problem - her father is the new coach, and he gets a tad psychotic about the player who's dating his daughter. To make matters worse, there's this bet with the rival school about next week's football game...

Mostly a high-school football movie, with some of the antics you'd expect (nothing as extreme as, say, _Porky's_) in an exploitation flick. A reasonable amount of nudity, to earn that important 'R' rating. Nothing especially good or awful in dialog, acting, or script. The transfer to VHS was not especially good, but that may have been just the copy I found used.
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OK late-70's knock-ff of "The Pom Pom Girls"
lazarillo9 July 2012
This film recently appeared on a DVD with "King Frat". The latter movie is much more of a "cult" film, but the two are actually very similar--"King Frat" is a shameless ripoff of "Animal House" at a small fraction of the budget, while this is a shameless ripoff of the more obscure (but relatively successful in its day) Crown International picture "The Pom-Pom Girls".

As any aficionado of 70's cheerleader movies can tell you, the "genre" can really be broken up into two parts--the earlier cheerleader movies. that followed the original "The Cheerleaders", which were pretty much pure softcore sex romps aimed at dirty old men, and the ones that followed "The Pom-Pom Girls", which were aimed at least partially at actual teenage drive-in movie-goers, so they had less sex and took more frequent breaks from ogling nubile female cheerleaders to engage in a lot of free-spirited teen hijinks. This movie is obviously more like "The Pom-Pom Girls" (not that there's nothing here for dirty old men to enjoy) in that the main protagonists are a group of ridiculously overaged high school jocks who all co-own a boogie van which they put pussycat stickers on to indicate each of the girls they've scored with. The conflict comes when one of the boys actually falls in love with the new girl (Rhonda Foxx), who also happens to be the strict, new coach's daughter.

This movie probably won't endear itself with too many feminists (especially,the scene where the boys wager their own cheerleaders on the outcome of a football game with a rival school), but it's generally a harmless, somewhat idyllic look at male adolescence in the late 1970's. It's not as good as "The Pom Pom Girls" or as nearly as sex-saturated as "The Cheerleaders", but it's OK overall
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1/10
A total waste of celluoid
rlcsljo9 September 2000
This film had almost nothing to do with cheering or cheerleaders. The acting was completely sub standard. Almost no attempt was even slightly made to make the plot interesting. I can't believe I go suckered twice into seeing this movie and buying the video, based on the title. Anyone who even thinks about wanting to see this film is a fool.
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