“Bring It On” tells the story of Torrance Shipman (Kirsten Dunst), newly elected cheerleading captain of six-time champion San Diego high school team, the Rancho Carne Toros. Torrance discovers that all their winning cheers were stolen from the East Compton Clovers and after a run-in with the understandably angry Clovers, Torrance must “bring it on” at nationals to prove her team isn’t a complete bunch of hacks. Along the way, she picks up a new friend from Los Angeles who is basically a gymnast with a really bad attitude but all the sweet moves the team needs. Three weeks before the nationals, they discover the routine they bought from a tweaked-out choreographer was sold to six schools throughout California. The team decides to buckle down and create their own routine from scratch, apparently a difficult process. GJ: For the record, seeing this movie was Moss’s idea. I wanted to see “Highlander: Endgame,” but he was just dead sure this cheerleading opus was gonna be “the bomb.” KM: Wow, I bet “Highlander” would have been way better than a bunch of cheerleaders dancing on the screen for two hours. But believe me, dragging Jerrett to this movie was pretty damn interesting. GJ: I saw 30 seconds of “Highlander” before “Bring It On” started and was more entertained in that 30 seconds than I was during the entire length of “Bring It On” because this was possibly the biggest piece of crap put on film since that huge dinosaur dump in “Jurassic Park.” First off, this movie doesn’t know whether or not it wants to make fun of cheerleaders or drone on about what a noble endeavor they are engaged in. Pick one. I’m sure that cheerleaders work hard and put a lot of effort into what they do, so props out to them for pumping us up and all that, but nearly two hours of “cheerbitch” and “spirit fingers” jokes? I don’t think so. The actors positively reek in this movie, no doubt they were embarrassed to be doing such meaningless drivel about such a trivial subject. KM: The weird thing is that even though this movie sucked so bad it made “Clueless” look good, I was laughing almost the entire time but for all the wrong reasons. And I’m still laughing about it after the fact. So did the movie do the job of entertaining me? GJ: This movie was bad, but it wasn’t Ed Wood bad. It wasn’t “Cocktail” bad. The plot immediately makes it impossible for us to like the main characters. The protagonists were unwittingly using stolen material and probably should have known better. The only thing they can do to redeem themselves is come up with original material, which they should have done in the first place. So the problem here is, weak crime plus weak solution equals weak movie. This movie didn’t get beyond one stereotype. KM: The opening sequence to “Bring It On” is quite possibly the worst three minutes to ever grace a movie screen. Torrence is having a dream where the squad is doing a cheer to introduce themselves, and talk about how nobody likes them and why they don’t like anyone. The way it is cheered will make you cringe so badly the hair on the back of your neck will stand straight up. The biggest surprise is that more people didn’t walk out right then. GJ: The best 10 minutes of the film are when the leather-clad choreographer Sparky camped things up and abused the cheerleaders. We could have used another hour of this guy. KM: Sparky was funny, but one particular fart joke comes to mind that was almost laughable because the audience is brought down to a level that was low from the get-go. Then there’s all the middle fingers and phrases like, “I have a spirit finger for you.” GJ: “Bring it On” was one big inside joke, that’s for sure, but since most people hate cheerleaders and cheerleaders acknowledge that fact, give us something more to go on. Give us a likeable character. Show us that cheerleading really is cool and not just a psuedo sport for real bitches, that’s all. KM: There were some likeable characters at times, but every one of them fell into a lame stereotype. There’s the guy from L.A. who is really pretty cool. But he happens to be the guy who isn’t afraid to speak his mind to the jocks. His sister is hot, and has a cool personality most of the time. But she is the one who dresses more alternative than the rest of the girls with her wallet-chain and funky hair. Good high-school flicks are made when stereotypes are explored and destroyed, and “Bring it On” does not achieve that.