Bring It On: All or Nothing

Bring It On: All or Nothing is the third installment in the Bring it On series of films that revolves around high school cheerleading. Directed by Steve Rash, the movie was released direct-to-DVD on August 8, 2006 by Universal Pictures.

This film, which is the second sequel to Bring It On, has a tenuous link to the previous films, featuring only a similar plot of competing cheerleading teams that have to try something different in order to win. There are no recurring cast members or canonical references to the previous films. However, the film stylistically refers to its predecessors in that it is the second in the Bring It On series to open with a choreographed musical number that turns out to be a dream sequence of the protagonist, and like all three films, the end credits feature outtakes and clips of the cast having fun dancing.

As shown in the outtakes, the film's working title was Bring It On Yet Again.

The film was followed by another sequel titled Bring It On: In It to Win It, which was released direct-to-DVD in December 2007.

Plot

Britney Allen is living a 'dream life' as cheerleading captain and girlfriend of the quarterback of Pacific Vista High. Her best friend and rival is the highly ambitious Winnie Harper. Her life changes dramatically when her father loses his job, and the family must relocate to Crenshaw Heights, a working-class neighborhood filled with "Blacks" that Britney being the "White Girl" takes quite a while to adjust to.

She gets off on the wrong foot with Camille, head cheerleader of the Crenshaw Heights 'Warriors' and her friends and fellow cheerleaders, Kirresha and Leti. She also meets Jesse, a male cheerleader, the only person who is nice to her on her first day. Britney, at the urging of Winnie, has already vowed to never cheer for another team (as this would make her a 'cheer whore'), but after being dared by Camille and Jesse to show up at cheerleading tryouts, Britney impresses everyone with her cheer experience and skills and Camille, after being persuaded by her friends to "do it for the squad", reluctantly invites her into the squad. Britney and Jesse become close and eventually kiss. While in the gym, Tyson gropes Britney, and she grabs his testicles and squeezes them. She tells him she will "pluck his grapes or in your case, raisins" if he does it again.

Around this time, singer Rihanna announces a TV special where all high school cheerleading squads can compete, with the winners appearing in a music video with her and winning new computers for their school. Winnie finds out that Britney is cheering with the Warriors and reveals this to her friends. A week later, Britney lies to Camille, telling her that she cannot cheer at the next game as she is holding a memorial service for her dead dog; she is actually Brad's date for Pacific Vista's Homecoming dance. Camille and Jesse arrive at Britney's to offer their condolences and when they see Britney and Brad dressed up, Camille kicks her off the squad.

At the dance, Winnie reveals to everyone that she has been sleeping with Brad behind Britney's back and Britney dumps Brad on the spot, telling Winnie that she is "too much of a backstabber to have any real friends". The next day, the day of the auditions, Britney comes to wish the Warriors good luck.

When Winnie, with the rest of her team, makes fun of the Warriors, Britney stands up to Winnie and defends them. Camille, impressed by this, lets Britney cheer with them again. Jesse, however, is still mad at her for not admitting that she had a boyfriend, not even when they kissed. At the auditions, the two finalists are Pacific Vista and Crenshaw Heights. PV wows the audience with their routine and Camille begins to get worried.

Then Britney points out that all their steps are repetitive and that they have their secret weapon: krumping. CH, now dressed in cargos, steps on stage during PV's performance and begins mirroring their steps. Finally, they begin krumping, wiping PV off the stage and impressing Rihanna with their own demonstration. After CH's performance ends, Winnie approaches Rihanna and insists that the Crenshaw Heights squad should be disqualified ("or arrested") for interrupting PV's routine. This leads to an argument between Winnie and the rest of the Pacific Vista squad, during which Britney notes that the squad can choose to replace Winnie as Captain of the PV squad effective immediately; everyone present (including Rihanna) votes in favor of replacing Winnie as Captain. Winnie protests, dismissing CH's style as "ghetto", and Rihanna responds that she will judge the squad by what they bring to the table and not by where they come from. Rihanna ultimately selects Crenshaw Heights as the winners, and the Pacific Vista squad (with Britney's best friend Amber as their new Captain) come forward to congratulate them.

Britney and Jesse make up, kissing backstage after their first performance. The movie ends with a made-for-movie music video of Rihanna's Pon De Replay with the Crenshaw Heights squad dancing in the background.

Characters

• Hayden Panettiere as Britney Allen
• Marcy Rylan as Winnie Harper
• Cindy Chiu as Amber
• Danielle Savre as Brianna
• Jessica Fife as Sierra
• Jake McDorman as Brad Warner
• Solange Knowles as Camille
• Gus Carr as Jesse
• Giovonnie Samuels as Kirresha
• Francia Almendárez as Leti
• Gary Leroi Gray as Tyson
• Eric Bruskotter as Timothy Allen
• Kiersten Warren as Pamela Allen
• Rihanna as herself
• Swin Cash as herself

Response

While the film was not released in cinemas, it was very successful for a straight-to-DVD feature. It sold more than 750,000 units (50% more than its predecessor Bring It On Again) and earned $12 million in its first week, the overall #3 in DVD sales that week. It was the second-highest debut of a live-action DVD premiere in history behind American Pie: Band Camp which was also from Universal Pictures and director Steve Rash.

The movie has also become a popular showing on American cable network ABC Family where it's frequently paired up with the original Bring It On as a part of a Double Feature Cheer-a-thon. ABC Family airs an alternate version suitable for television which has been mostly stripped of foul language and vulgarity.

Soundtrack

• The song for the music video that the team wins the right to perform in is Rihanna's "Pon De Replay". Her song "SOS" is also featured.
• One of the songs featured in the film soundtrack is Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl". The music video for "Hollaback Girl", released in 2004, famously features a cheerleading squad. "What You Waiting For?" and "Rich Girl" another two of Stefani's songs, are also used.
• The hip-hop group Fu-Schnickens's "Can We Rock?" is featured as a remix during the end credits. The remix is a mash-up of the song "Can We Rock?" with Hardknox's "What's Up Doc?"
• The title song from Solange Knowles' debut album Solo Star is featured in the movie when the Warriors squad are auditioning.
• The unreleased song "Let's Move" by the film's composers, The Transcenders, is also used in the movie during the Pacific Vista Pirates' practice (with Britney as captain). The Transcenders originally created the song for Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, another film they'd worked on that same year.
• "My Happy Ending" by singer Avril Lavigne features twice in the film.
• "Whole Again" by girl group Play is featured.
• Weezer's "Beverly Hills" is also featured.
• "Dirty Little Secret" by All American Rejects is also featured.
• Alana Stone's "On My Own" was featured during the homecoming dance, where Britney and Brad are dancing.
• Hayden Panettiere's unreleased song "That Girl" plays throughout the scene where Brad is visiting Britney's house and Britney hides when the pizza delivery guy turns out to be Jesse. (In the cast credits Panettiere's surname, as is often the case, is misspelt - but curiously, it is spelled correctly in the song credits.)

External links

• Bring It On : All or Nothing
• Bring It On: All or Nothing at AllRovi
• Bring It On: All or Nothing at the Internet Movie Database
• Official site