{"id":3928,"date":"2024-09-10T21:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2024-10-13T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T22:20:08","slug":"the-cheerleaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/09\/10\/the-cheerleaders\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cheerleaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Cheerleaders <\/strong>(1973)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinemation Industries\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 84 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (sex and nudity)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Paul Glickler\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Ace Baandige, Paul Glickler, Richard Lerner and Tad Richards\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: David Herman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Richard Lerner\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 1973 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Stephanie Fondue, Denise Dillaway, Brandy Woods, Jovita Bush, Kim Stanton, Sandy Evans, Richard Meatwhistle, Jonathan Jacobs, Raoul Hoffnung, Patrick Wright, Terri Teague, Jack Jonas, Jay Linder, Charles Goldman, John Bracci, Bill Lehrke, P.J. Karpati, Evett Wilber.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: N\/A<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Cheerleaders<\/strong> is a sex-starved 14YO boy\u2019s wet dream come true. That\u2019s who it appears to be made for anyway. That would explain the terrible acting and almost complete absence of a plot not to mention the preponderance of sex and nudity. It\u2019s not just a T&A comedy; it\u2019s a T&A&B one. The \u201cB\u201d is in reference of one of Booger\u2019s best lines in Revenge of the Nerds (\u201cWe\u2019ve got b***, we\u2019ve got b***!\u201d). In any event, there\u2019s plenty of all three in The Cheerleaders<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0PLOT, WHAT PLOT? [Insert audible sigh<\/em>] May as well get this part out of the way. Trust me, it won\u2019t take very long. The only virgin at Amarosa High in sunny California, an alarmingly na\u00efve girl named Jeannie (Fondue), joins the cheerleading squad in hopes of gaining confidence and getting laid. It shouldn\u2019t be hard since all these girls do is cheer, take off their clothes and screw. Something of an actual storyline kicks in when the girls\u2019 slumber party turns into an orgy when the football team shows up. The problem is it\u2019s the night before the big game. With the guys all tired out from screwing, there\u2019s no way they have a shot at winning. The girls take matters into their own hands and level the playing field by tracking down and seducing all the members of the opposing team.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Oh, I almost forgot. Head cheerleader Claudia (Dillaway) has a bet going with a female coach (Teague) over Jeannie losing her virginity before the end of football season. Don\u2019t worry too much about it; it ends up not being a major plot point.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Most of The Cheerleaders<\/strong> centers on the sexual escapades of Jeannie and the other girls- Claudia, Debbie (Woods), Bonnie (Bush, Fox Style), Patty (Stanton, The Young Nurses) and Suzie (Evans, The Journey of O). There\u2019s no getting around it; The Cheerleaders<\/strong> is a dirty movie. It falls somewhere between softcore and hardcore in that it shows more than the average R movie, but doesn\u2019t meet the standards for an X. Either way, these girls spend a lot of time on their backs, fronts, knees and partners. The \u201chighlights\u201d include sessions with the football coach, the girls\u2019 coach, a school bus driver, the counter guy at the hamburger stand, a couple of sleazy bikers and Jeannie\u2019s horndog dad. \u00a0A climax of sorts is reached when Jeannie rides a wave of semen after a particular scuzzy encounter involving the school\u2019s fat horny janitor (Hoffnung) in a bear suit. Don\u2019t ask; really, DON\u2019T ask.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019m really conflicted what to say next about The Cheerleaders<\/strong>. It\u2019s a bad movie alright. The acting, if you can even call it that, is atrocious. I\u2019ve heard better line readings in a third grade Thanksgiving play. I\u2019ve seen better performances there too. The actresses aren\u2019t even all that attractive. My guess is that they were hired based on their willingness to shed their clothes on camera. It\u2019s a good thing that\u2019s what the audience is really coming to see. The humor is on the level of a middle school locker room with one stupid dirty pun after another. And why do so many of them rhyme? Sample line: \u201cI\u2019m wise to the rise in your Levi\u2019s.\u201d Since when do characters in a teen T&A flick talk like poets? It\u2019s in direct contrast to their IQs, none of which exceed the bustiest girl\u2019s bra size.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Cheerleaders<\/strong> is populated by character types; the girls are air-heads, the guys are horny and all adults are buffoons. Everybody is a pervert on some level, some more than others. Jeannie\u2019s dad leers at her friends yet forbids her to leave the house in a revealing outfit. The janitor, described by one of the girls as \u201can anti-social disease\u201d, would be a registered sex offender by today\u2019s standards. He\u2019s just gross and creepy. The only non-pervert is Jeannie\u2019s so-called \u201cboyfriend\u201d Norm (Jacobs), a wet blanket who seems to work every place the girls go. He\u2019s not the least bit interested in sex which makes him a different kind of creep.<\/p>\n

The cheer choreography is clumsy at best. Same goes for the football scenes. The jokes aren\u2019t especially funny. Some scenes go on longer than necessary. The Cheerleaders<\/strong> hasn\u2019t a single shred of artistic integrity. At the same time, I can\u2019t simply dismiss it as a bad teen comedy on the level of Hollywood High. I don\u2019t know why, but there\u2019s something about it that intrigues me. Maybe it\u2019s because it reminds me of the kind of dirty movie I used to stay up late to watch on Cinemax as a teen only dirtier. Maybe it\u2019s the low, low, LOW level of humor. This movie is low-budget, low class and lowbrow. It could be considered a 3D movie- dirty, dopey and dumb.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Perhaps what I feel for The Cheerleaders<\/strong> is admiration. I admire the hell out of its total lack of pretentiousness. It makes no bones about what kind of movie it is and who it\u2019s for. I ought to give it one star, but I\u2019ll give it three for nostalgic reasons. It\u2019s a relic of a time when such movies showed at public theaters and drive-ins.<\/p>\n

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The Cheerleaders (1973)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinemation Industries\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 84 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (sex and nudity)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Paul Glickler\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Ace Baandige, Paul Glickler, Richard Lerner and Tad Richards\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: David Herman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Richard Lerner\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 1973 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Stephanie Fondue, Denise Dillaway, Brandy Woods, Jovita Bush, Kim Stanton, Sandy Evans, Richard Meatwhistle, Jonathan Jacobs, Raoul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Cheerleaders-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5393,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/5393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}