Stereotypes!!

I could tell Brooke was from New York. The way she did her make-up and you could hear her accent sometimes. Although her beach blonde hair was definitely a west coast thing. Although I wish they would have used a feisty dark haired Italian chic from New York as their captain. That would have been more stereotypical and funny.

I like how the Actresses are from Long Island and Long Beach just like their roles.

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So yes there is a scene where everyone is honest about how they are just playing into stereotypes. So because of those confessions that makes it all OK right? I don't think so. It's still offensive as hell. It's the way people who are mainstream but sheltered think other people (e.g. black people, gay people) talk. It is interesting to note the fake diversity on this cheerleading team. The goth girl isn't really goth, the gay guy is actually straight (but keeps acting stereotypically gay after the confession for some reason), the black girl only acted ghetto to "impress" her white peers and then has to admit that they are in a sense more black than she is. Would a healthy self respecting black girl portray some of the worst stereotypes associated with being black to impress white girls who have the nerve to claim they are more black than she is? I'll never forget her line "I enunciate well for a black person". That was the icing on the cake. Playing stereotypes is just as bad reinforcing one. This is the kind of diversity enjoyed most by bigots because nobody is really different or diverse but only offensive caricatures. They sounded like they consulted the ghetto slang for beginners handbook but they made sure to quote from the Art of War just to reassure us that they have brains too. This film plays like a hilarious and ironic Mad TV or SNL skit. Sadly however I think the film actually takes itself seriously and doesn't really know how truly ridiculous it its being. But then again I don't know.... When the Shark/Jets start calling themselves the Shets, I honestly don't know if this is all intentional. I think this movie qualifies as a trash classic. A good bad movie! Who can keep a straight face with all those messed up dance offs!? How about the girl with the drag queen level eye makeup, yellow fake hair and orange skin? Since when do goth girls actually carrying skull and cross bones coconut bras just in case they get invited to that luau? How about how everyone just suddenly knows how to dance salsa on the fly like that? This movie is brainless, offensive, tacky, and a lot of fun but for all the wrong reasons. Oh and the cheering stunts were impressive.