Dance Movies

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.

Response

The film was a very successful straight-to-DVD feature when it sold more than 750,000 units (50% more than its predecessor Bring It On Again) and earned $12 million in its first week rocketing it to the #3 spot 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

• Rihanna’s SOS is featured at the start of the film.
• The song for the music video that the team wins the right to perform in is Rihanna’s Pon De Replay.
• 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 song, 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 Transcenders is also used in the movie during the Pacific Vista Pirates’ practice (with Britney as captain).
• My Happy Ending by singer Avril Lavigne features twice in the film.
• Weezer’s Beverly Hills is also featured.
• Dirty Little Secret by All American Rejects is also featured.

Pop culture references

• Hayden Panettiere (Britney) and Marcy Rylan (Winnie) have both played the character Lizzie Spaulding on Guiding Light.
• Hayden Panettiere stars as a cheerleader on the NBC TV series Heroes, which reunited her with co-star Danielle Savre who also played a cheerleader on the show.
• On the TV Series One on One, Solange Knowles guest-starred as a high school student who auditions for the cheerleading squad and claims she was cheer captain in her old school. The episode even features one character uttering the phrase “Bring it on”.