source: Deadly Cheers

2022 is rife with films like these; half-baked plots with unbelievable characters performed by inexperienced actors directed by inexperienced directors. Scripts written by inexperienced writers add to the certain doom of the venture. Shallow characterizations move to highly unlikely situations in hackneyed settings. There is nothing new here and the film is not recommended for high schoolers to attend because it is so boring and predictable. Even grade school kids would find this film boring. I watched it only because I had free passes from my brother in law, Geoff, who is the theater manager. The nachos and cheese were good, however.

It was So Bad that it almost defies words...I actually think the actors weren't too bad, but the dialogue & plot they had to work with was so beyond ludicrous & stank up the screen so badly, that it was extremely difficult to notice... I also wonder, WHY so many cheer movies?? Seriously, it doesn't seem like it would hit home with most of their viewers...as well as the pregnant-woman & baby-in-Peril plots...parents don't like to think of these things & those of us that aren't parents can't Relate...

This goofy, and probably the worst of any of the cheer movies, was already testing my patience with the cringey cheer segments, but did ***** really get stabbed on both sides of the neck and live to give a villain monologue DAYS LATER? Walking around with two neck holes as if nothing happened? Jog on, Lifetime. There's nothing else to say.

OK, I've come to expect little from these movies. Formulaic, predictable, plot holes galore, and with endings that wrap things up way too easily, leaving plots lines unresolved, all after the last commercial break. Paint-by-numbers, as it were. Even the titles are reusable: "Deadly (something)", "Killer (something)", "Psycho (something)", and of course, "The Wrong (something)", just to name a few. But this was just jaw-dropping bad. The plot made no sense at all, and it got more convoluted and illogical as it went along. I'm used to maniacal bad guys in these movies, too, and they are often fun to watch as you wait for their ultimate defeat. The ones in this movie are too over the top (which is saying a lot for these movies), as they overact and behave in ways that make no sense whatsoever. Most of these movies are somewhat fun to watch, not to be taken seriously. Even some of the presenters that once in a while talk about the movies kind of make fun of them, obviously telling the audience not to take them seriously. Unfortunately, you don't have the opportunity to have tongue-in-cheek fun with this one. It is so bad that all you can do is cringe. I know Lifetime and the production companies it uses pump out about 100 or more movies a year, so you can't expect great production values or writing, but this one should never have been made. It would not have been missed. As an aside, I wonder why there are so many cheerleader movies made for Lifetime and LMN? I wouldn't think they would fit the Lifetime audience demographic, but they must, since more are made all the time.

The storyline was great, the characters were solid, the plot twist were spot on...one VERY cheesey scene but not giving any spoilers, you'll know it when you see it.

Deadly Cheers