Mini Movie Review
Hey, I have decided to start doing mini reviews on movies. Here’s my first one:
Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal (2008) (TV)
This movie is based on a true story. Most humans, have experienced part of that story in junior high or high school. Cheerleaders. Bratty, stuck up, Heathers. Everyone has always hated the cheerleaders. Sometimes, they hate themselves also. Though not usually, because everything is entitled to them, they have power, and never make mistakes.
This movie takes it to the next level. These cheerleaders get away with everything including cutting class, using cell phones during class, disobeying all teachers, drinking on school campus, and putting a nasty inappropriate video of them all over the web. In this video, they are in an adult store, drinking, and in there cheerleading uniforms being inappropriate. Their new coach tries as hard as she can to disipline them but is having trouble because the clique’s leader, is the principal’s daughter.
I’m not sure why it’s a scandal though. Nobody I have asked seems to know either. There is no murder, although many people thought so. I is a drama. That is why it was on Lifetime. It is a good movie if you like drama and catfights, and have nothing else to watch. I would agree with it’s rating of PG14.
Posted: August 7th, 2008 under Misc., Review.
Comments: 2
Comments
Comment from Dad
Time: August 7, 2008, 10:30 am
I remember when this story hit the national news a couple of years ago. The scandal wasn’t so much in the girls behavior (which was WAY over the line of “just being girls”), but in the fact that none of the responsible adults would actually ACT responsibly and curb their behavior. The school district spent $40,000 on an independent investigation of the incident which summarized the problems as follows-
The investigation listed the following as “failures”:
• The district failed to write and amend a coherent constitution.
• North failed to recruit and keep a qualified cheerleading sponsor with longevity.
• Some parents failed to transmit solid values, beyond “success” and “individual rights.”
• Most teachers failed to take a stand on principle, preferring career advancement.
• The administration failed to implement and assess discipline equitably.
• Many students failed to understand how the rules could get so twisted.
• A small group of “ultra-cool” cheerleaders at the top of the North “food chain” resisted all authority and failed to recognize how they were hurting their community.
• A few parents failed to see discipline as a loving instruction about life – instead they enabled children to a profound degree.
• The media failed to get the story straight: broadcasting it as a sensationalized battle between an upright crusader and “girls gone wild” and “teasing” with a risqué photograph.
• Previous cheerleading sponsors at North failed to give the real reason they quit.
• The most recent cheerleading sponsors at North failed to give the real reason they quit.
• The most recent cheerleading sponsor failed to embrace or thoroughly follow the constitution – and quit in a very untimely fashion.
• The principal failed to properly juggle two of the most important responsibilities in her life: principal and mother. She must be held principally accountable.
Comment from zairabear
Time: August 16, 2008, 9:09 am
Thanks for clearing that up for me!
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