In this trending teen comedy, The San Diego high school's cheer-leading squad have had a winning spree for so long until the new captain realizes that their styles were actually stolen from another team by her predecessor.
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?
Smart, sassy movie, but expect raunchy humor, language.
Chicago Reader
July 25, 2007
This earnest and arch story -- so fast paced its formulas are wonderfully obscured -- has an adolescent energy and a tempered sexuality, and it's infused with the moral agenda of a warmly didactic sitcom.