Line #33 Film/Bratz


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2	[[caption-width-right:317:BFF WOO!]]
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4	''Bratz: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Movie]]'' is a 2007 movie based on the popular but controversial line of dolls. It is set in an AlternateContinuity to the CGI films.
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6	The movie follows [[CuteClumsyGirl Cloe]], [[SassyBlackWoman Sasha]], [[ShrinkingViolet Yasmin]] and [[AsianAndNerdy Jade]] as [[DawsonCasting they]] go through high school. After being broken up on the first day, Yasmin decides to take the initiative and bring her group back together and show [[AlphaBitch Meredith]] and her GirlPosse that she doesn't rule the school.
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9	!!This movie shows examples of:
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11	* AbsurdlyDividedSchool: When the four main characters first arrive, the AlphaBitch Meredith tries to sort them and everyone else into cliques in an effort to keep everything orderly. This actually manages to work for a few years, as everyone but Yasmin manages to fit into a clique, and the later attempts to break out of this situation is what creates the big conflict.
12	* AdultsAreUseless: Principal Dimly has less influence over the school than Meredith does and he has less discipline over both of his daughters.
13	* AnAesop: ThePowerOfFriendship RULES! Also, BeYourself and don't let people push you around.
14	* AlphaBitch: Meredith is trying to out-bitch both Libby from ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' and Tess from ''Film/CampRock'' with songs like "It's All About Me" and "FABULOUS".
15	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Cherish is this from Meredith's perspective. Though, given that she antagonizes Meredith, she winds up being sympathetic to the audience, and she seems nice otherwise. She helps the Bratz girls discredit Meredith's lies in the finale.
16	* BondBreaker: Head girl Meredith is set upon driving the Bratz girls apart; after two years, she has succeeded in making them part of her pre-defined cliques, and they can barely speak to each other any more.
17	* CliqueTour: Meredith lists the school's cliques to Avery and Quinn. She's even got a color-coded map of where each clique sits, and the camera pans to each group for the audience's benefit as she rattles off their names.
18	-->'''Meredith:''' You have the goths, the skaters, the disco dorks, the beat boy blingers, the gangstas, the wanna-be gangstas, the pretzel people, who are into yoga, very different from the greenies, who hate anything not made of plants. Then you have the nerds, the kids who like to dress like dinosaurs, and the football jocks.
19	* CluelessAesop: Pretty much all of the characters are stereotypes of some form or another, which is hardly promoting individuality.
20	* ContrivedCoincidence: Meredith's dog tugs on Cloe's pants, which causes the main characters to get covered in food, thus causing them to hate each other and a massive FoodFight ensues.
21	* ControlFreak: Meredith, who organises everyone into cliques, even the unpopular kids, going to ridiculous extremes to discredit anybody who stands in her way.
22	* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Sasha loves this trope.
23	* {{Expy}}: Meredith is a Sharpay-Evans-Rip-off. She shares her [[LargeHam Large Ham]] persona and her obsession with [[StatusQuoIsGod maintaining the status quo]]. Though she doesn't have the likability or the CharacterDevelopment Sharpay has.
24	* FourGirlEnsemble
25	* FreshmanFears: The very beginning of the film involves the main characters starting high school together and discovering that their [[AbsurdlyDividedSchool school runs on cliques]]. They're slowly forced apart as they discover their new niches and end up fitting in better with other groups than with each other, before the TimeSkip kicks in.
26	* TheGlassesGottaGo: Dexter
27	* HighSchoolAU: This movie is an AlternateContinuity to a universe set in a high school. It includes pretty much every stereotype you can name and even makes up new ones.
28	* HollywoodScience: To make a super cool [[SpecialEffectsFailure CGI fireworks]] show just combine three different chemicals in a pseudo smart way!
29	* InformedFlaw: Cloe's 'clumsiness.' Yes, a klutz is capable of pulling off soccer moves only professionals can barely do.
30	* InformedPoverty: If Cloe is so poor, where did she get all of those clothes, the computer in her bedroom, and the moped she drives to school? (It is never mentioned whether or not she has a job outside of school to make up for it.)
31	* ItsAllAboutMe: The title of the song Meredith performs at the TalentShow.
32	* MakeWayForThePrincess: Meredith ''and'' the Bratz.
33	* TheManBehindTheMan: The high school girl behind the man specifically. Meredith's influence in the school is so significant that she actually whispers to her father—the principal—on how to handle the Bratz when they get in trouble after the FoodFight.
34	* MeaningfulName: Principal Dimly, who is indeed depicted as very ''dim.''
35	* MerchandiseDriven: It's based on a doll line, so... yeah.
36	* NationalStereotypes: Mexicans have mariachi bands living with them. ''[[TheMovie Bratz: The Movie]]'' said so. And that's just the beginning.
37	* ParentalAbandonment: Yasmine and her brother are living with their grandmother for some reason.
38	* ThePowerOfFriendship: [=BFF=]s WOO!
39	* ProductPlacement: The girls/dolls.
40	* RichBitch: Meredith.
41	* TalentShow: The climax.
42	* TitleDrop:
43	-->'''Meredith:''' You... you... BRAAAAATZ!
44	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Most of the trailers consist mainly of scenes right from the end of the movie—for instance, from the party, when the Bratz triumph over Meredith, or from the food fight.
45	* UsedToBeASweetKid: While it's unknown if Meredith used to be sweet, when she sings "Fabulous", it's implied that she was bullied in elementary school.
46	* WakeupMakeup: It's like they got up and fixed their hair and makeup before re-waking up.
47	* XtremeKoolLetterz: Averted, apart from Bratz.
48	* YoureJustJealous: An example of this occurs in the song "Rock Star" by Prima J.
49	-->You hate me 'cause I'm everything that you ever wanted to be.\
50	And I don't mind, 'cause I love it when you're looking at me.

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