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It didn't seem very promising--a film about cheerleading--but Bring It On turned out to be surprisingly well-done. It deserved to be a sleeper hit.

It's since become a cult classic, but I had no idea that there's a whole direct-to-video Bring It On franchise. Here's a useful guide to the sequels. This sentence near the end, however, stopped me short:

There's no question that these sequels lack Bring It On's zippy dialogue and cynical attitude. But they aren't unwatchable.

Except the zippy dialogue and cynical attitude are what made Bring It On watchable to begin with. Not that I was ever gonna watch the sequels, but I'll definitely take a pass now. Bring It On without the attitude would be exactly the kind of thing that made me want to stay awar from the original.