History YMMV / BringItOn

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/PrettyLittleLiars Hanna Marin]] in ''In It To Win It''. And [[Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration Imogen Moreno]] in ''Worldwide #Cheersmack''. And Creator/RyanDrummond in the first film.

** Nor would it be the [[{{Series/Heroes}} last time]] that Creator/DanielleSavre would play a cheerleader.

** There is some casual homophobia on the part of some characters. While Whitney and Courtney calling Missy an "uber dyke" is meant to show them as bullies, there is some of this underlying Torrance's relationship with Aaron. He's a fellow cheerleader, quite the CampStraight and shown as a RomanticFalseLead - in contrast to the CoolLoser Cliff. Aaron's college girlfriend even laughs at him when she finds out he was a cheerleader.

** The extremely popular theory that Courtney and Whitney are, in fact, speaking the truth when they describe Missy as an Uber-Dyke, and that therefore the ending is a classic case of DidNotGetTheGirl, with a side order of IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy.

* [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bitch]]: Isis isn't a physically intimidating figure, but we can immediately peg her as the captain of the Clovers because of her intense expressions, movements, and voice. She's determined to win, but she's also committed to her principles and doing right by her community. She'll punish bad behavior from her teammates if necessary, but she knows how to motivate them to get the best results. In short, she commands instant respect from her squad and their fans in a way that Torrance just can't match.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The sequels have been accused of just rehashing the first's plot, with sprinklings of AnAesop about prejudice. However, a PerspectiveFlip from a team like the Clovers would make ripe material for a film in its own right.

* TestosteroneBrigade: Although aimed at girls, the films are popular with guys as well for reasons not unconnected with watching Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/ElizaDushku, Creator/BethanyJoyLenz, Creator/HaydenPanettiere, Creator/AshleyBenson, Christina Milian et al running around and jumping up and down in abbreviated attire.

* TestosteroneBrigade: Although aimed at girls, the films are popular with guys as well for reasons not unconnected with watching Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/ElizaDushku, Haley from ''Series/OneTreeHill'', Creator/HaydenPanettiere, Creator/AshleyBenson, Christina Milian et al running around and jumping up and down in abbreviated attire.

** The Clovers write to a talk show host Pauletta Patterson asking for money. Creator/GabrielleUnion would play a character with that name on BET series ''Being Mary Jane''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/PrettyLittleLiars Hanna Marin]] in ''In It To Win It''. And [[Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration Imogen Moreno]] in ''Worldwide #Cheersmack''.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: ''All Or Nothing'' opens with a fire themed(?) SchoolDance type thing that ends with Britney [[ToiletHumor farting.]] The whole sequence turns out to be AllJustADream.

** One of the few things all six movies have in common -- several name actresses dressed up in cheerleader outfits that show plenty of skin. Notably the first film's outfits [[BareYourMidriff Bare the Midriff]] -- something which is ''not'' allowed on high school teams.

* PeripheryDemographic: A popular choice for showing in schools towards the end of term, because [[JiggleShow for some reason]] boys are happy to watch it as well.

*** The fact that Jamie's audition wasn't just underwhelming, but the fact she also sounded [[DullSurprise actively bored]] with the whole thing, and combined with not hearing Jamie's take on this and Whitney's general pushiness, it's enough to beg the question if she even ''wanted'' to be a cheerleader at all, or did Whitney just drag her along to use as basically a prop and Jamie basically sabotaged herself to bail out on something she really didn't want to do.

* TestosteroneBrigade: Although aimed at girls, the films are popular with guys as well for reasons not unconnected with watching Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/ElizaDushku, Haley from ''Series/OneTreeHill'', Creator/HaydenPanettiere, Creator/AshleyBenson, Christina Milian et all running around and jumping up and down in abbreviated attire.

* RonTheDeathEater: Gabrielle Union said in a 2018 career retrospective that she found it interesting how some fans of the movie viewed Isis as the villain.
--> "The leader of a movement to make these suburban girls accountable for the theft of our hard work is called a villain?”

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/PrettyLittleLiars Hanna Marin]] in ''In It To Win It''.

** TheCheerleader was a popular trope in the 90s, painting cheerleaders as either {{Alpha Bitch}}es or ditzy whores. The movie shows cheerleading as a genuine athletic pursuit, Missy learns that it's far more challenging than she thought, and the team are shown putting a lot of time and effort into choreographing their routines. Despite the film's goofy tone, it portrays cheerleading in a positive way. It treats male cheerleaders pretty well too, rather than stereotyping them all. Indeed, in spite of the above ValuesDissonance with the casual homophobia, at the end Les, who had been established as gay early on, has a MeetCute moment with a male cheerleader on one of the other teams at Nationals, a specific choice to give this moment to the gay character instead of having it be another straight character (like fellow male cheerleader [[HandsomeLech Jan]]).

* FriendshipWritingFumble: Torrance and Missy share far more scenes and make more of a connection than Torrance does with Cliff - who in fact is such a SatelliteLoveInterest that his very function seems just to be to prove that Torrance is into guys.

%%* {{Narm}}: Some of the more serious monologues.

* RelationshipWritingFumble: Torrance and Missy share far more scenes and make more of a connection than Torrance does with Cliff - who in fact is such a SatelliteLoveInterest that his very function seems just to be to prove that Torrance is into guys.

* RelationshipWritingFumble: Torrance and Missy share far more scenes and make more of a connection than Torrance does with Cliff - who in fact is such a SatelliteLoveInterest that his very function seems just to be to prove that Torrance is straight.

* LesYay: Torrance and Missy in the first movie have a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship, Torrance defends Missy from the other cheerleaders, and their friendship is given slightly more screen time than Torrance's budding romance with Cliff. One of the most blatant cases is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnPr9ad0GeY this scene]], where Torrance seems more excited than the guys about Missy in her cheerleader uniform.

** Jan perving over Whitney's tween sister wasn't deemed funny in-universe, but now is beyond disgusting, to the point where it comes off as cringeworthy and unfunny today. The same goes for Jan talking about how he sometimes "accidentally" slips his fingers inside Courtney's underwear when he's lifting her, which is treated as HandsomeLech shenanigans in the movie but would be considered sexual assault today. The latest film, ''Worldwide #Cheersmack'', makes the shockingly tone deaf decision to repeat the "finger slipping" joke, when one of the girl cheerleaders suggests that they don't need the boys who have left the team partially because boys will do the "finger slipping" thing, but the "evolution" of this joke is the main character then responding that its not like the two lesbian members of the squad don't do the same thing. This movie came out in 2019, two years after the beginning of the [=#MeToo=] movement and the Larry Nasser scandal.

** Whitney's little sister Jamie giving a lackluster tryout, despite the other girls hyping her up. Is Whitney just blind to her sister's badness? Or is Jamie normally much better and she was just nervous trying out in front of the older girls? Do they just want her because she's a useful prop? Or does Whitney want her because Jamie won't upstage her?

** Jan perving over Whitney's tween sister wasn't deemed funny in-universe, but now is beyond disgusting, to the point where it comes off as cringeworthy and unfunny today. The same goes for Jan talking about how he sometimes "accidentally" slips his fingers inside Courtney's underwear when he's lifting her, which is treated as HandsomeLech shenanigans in the movie but would be considered sexual assault today.
*** The latest film, ''Worldwide #Cheersmack'', makes the shockingly tone deaf decision to repeat the "finger slipping" joke, when one of the girl cheerleaders suggests that they don't need the boys who have left the team partially because boys will do the "finger slipping" thing, but the "evolution" of this joke is the main character then responding that its not like the two lesbian members of the squad don't do the same thing. This movie came out in 2019, two years after the beginning of the [=#MeToo=] movement and the Larry Nasser scandal.

** TheCheerleader was a popular trope in the 90s, painting cheerleaders as either {{Alpha Bitch}}es or ditzy whores. The movie shows cheerleading as a genuine athletic pursuit, Missy learns that it's far more challenging than she thought, and the team are shown putting a lot of time and effort into choreographing their routines. Despite the film's goofy tone, it portrays cheerleading in a positive way. It treats male cheerleaders pretty well too, rather than stereotyping them all.
*** Indeed, in spite of the above ValuesDissonance with the casual homophobia, at the end Les, who had been established as gay early on, has a MeetCute moment with a male cheerleader on one of the other teams at Nationals, a specific choice to give this moment to the gay character instead of having it be another straight character (like fellow male cheerleader [[HandsomeLech Jan]]).