Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009)

Purely Joyful Movie!

Pretty Good

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The last installment of the Bring It On franchise is a direct-to- video about Lina Cruz,a cheerleader who transfers to another school.The story revolves around her joining the cheerleading team,trying to become the captain of the cheerleading squad,her rivalry with Avery,the ultra-rich and snobbish captain,her actions to improve the cheerleading squad and her unlikely romance with Avery's brother. Stating all these will only make the viewer realize that a lot of the plot elements were taken from the first four films which only makes it a poorest movie int he franchise.Aside from that,it was also evident that the cheerleading could be classified as the poorest as well among all five movies.Finally,it isn't compelling as the characters were simply awful and not interesting.The only good thing about it is it is finally the last film of Bring It On franchise which should have just stuck to the first film and should have avoided making the other sequels to make it the signature film for cheerleading.

I am older than most of the people giving reviews. I was a cheerleader and I had two daughters that were also cheerleaders. I have enjoyed the movies until I got to this one. It irritated me so much in the first 15 minutes I nearly didn't watch the rest of it. Terrible acting was of course, the first thing I saw. But my biggest turn off was injecting rampant sexuality into everything. Here is the message: You weren't a good cheerleader until everything you did simulated sexual moves. The younger generation often doesn't recognize it or care. But talent is talent and adding sex to everything to make it a "winner" is stupid. It reminds me of the junior high toilet humor in movies because no one can think of anything better. So to get these stupid "stereotyped" white girls to get with the program, they must get together with the "stereotyped" Latinos of the poorer section of town and they are going to teach them how to bump and grind and then they can do their cheers better. They can be sensual and that seems to be the goal here. I have watched a lot of competition cheer leading and this was awful. Both sides of the coin, the whites and Latinos ought to sue the movie company for teaching the movie goers lies about their community and their heritage.

How this series has managed to spawn five direct to video sequels, is beyond me, because the 1st didn't even warrant a sequel, even thought it was somewhat enjoyable. Fight To The Finish gets by on it's likable characters and enthusiasm, in an otherwise, pretty bland entry. One thing that bugged me about this movie, and all of the rest is, every Bring It On movie, has seemingly started with a horrible dream sequence from the lead character, why is that? they look corny. Thankfully the film strays away from the racial tension for the most part. It's just so clichéd now a days, having all the racial tension. Christina Milian makes for the best lead since, Hayden Panettiere. She's not a spoiled brat, and made a very likable lead. Fight to the Finish, is of course predictable. When you've seen one of these movies, you've pretty much seen them all. Heroine forms a cheer leading squad, who encounters the spoiled brat from the other team, only to challenge them near the end. I Got pretty much what I bargained for, but thankfully it wasn't as bad as I expected.Performances. Christina Milian is surprisingly a likable and charismatic lead. She's far from great, but she manages to be less whiny then most of the heroines, and that made the film much more bearable, as a result. Cody Longo is better then most of the male love interests that are in this series, but that's not really a compliment. His chemistry with Milian is OK. Rachele Brooke Smith has to be the most bland foe, I have seen in the series. She gave a boring performance, and as a result, I was bored watching her. Holland Roden is a little underdeveloped as Skylar, I would have liked to have learned more about her, because her character had potential.Bottom line. Fight To The Finish was a harmless watch. A little too bland for my liking at times, but It's one of the better DTV sequels in the series. That being said, I really hope they stop here. Worth a check, if your big into the series5/10

They took ideas from Bring it on(All or nothing) and Bring it on (in it to win it) and still it turned out bad. And with all that Spanish speaking the film should have been subtitled or at least advertised as a bilingual film.Christina Milian shouldn't even bother quitting her day job as a singer, she could barely carry this film (it's no wonder her character kept seeking out her two friends for back-up). Let's not even get into the stereotypes because I could spend all day on all that crap.And could somebody please explain to me what "E" news would be doing at a cheer-leading championship? At least try and make some things believable people!!!