This slick high-school movie, adapted from a Wattpad story, tells the tale of an aspiring cheerleader and a star quarterback whose families clash. While visually appealing with its slow-motion corridor walks and flawless cheer routines, the predictable plot and saccharine dialogue lack genuine surprises.
Slickly made high-school movie is packed with slow-motion corridor walks and flawless cheer-squad routines – but it’s hard to get caught up in a plot with so few surprisesallas is a hot cheerleader with dreams of auditioning for CalTech. Drayton is a cute star quarterback whose dad is adamant he follow in his footsteps and attend his alma mater with a football scholarship.
A slickly made, nicely shot high-school movie adapted from a Wattpad story with an Instagram-ready cast, the biggest surprise here is James Van Der Beek popping up in a thankless role as the humourless dad. We know from The Rules of Attraction and Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 that Van Der Beek’s tastes are on the edgier side, but don’t tune in if you’re expecting any subversive humour; this is a straightforward and edge-free romance for younger teens.
Visually the film has a bit more to offer, effortlessly adopting the onscreen grammar of countless high-school movies before it, so we get all the slow-motion corridor walks and flawlessly executed cheer-squad routines we could hope for. It’s all pleasant enough, in a glossy, wallpapery kind of way, but it’s hard to get caught up in a plot with so few surprises and dialogue so relentlessly sincere.
Frank Lloyd Wright famously described television as chewing gum for the eyes, but what’s less discussed is that Henri Peyre, professor of French at Yale University, coined a similar phrase a little earlier in 1944, in relation to cinema: “They dutifully chew their gum to keep from yawning, while absorbing the chewing gum for the eyes of the movies.” This applies here: in the era of streaming, there’s a vast amount of ocular movie gum being pumped out, including this little piece.
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