After her sister falls off of the top her dorm, Maisy (Joelle Farrow) transfers to Vanderton University and takes her place on the cheerleading squad.  Maisy thinks her sister was murdered and is determined to find out why.  She discovers that several of the cheerleaders are also working as webcam girls, some of them against their will.

My main thought while watching this movie was that maybe if the squad had been any good, they wouldn’t have had to make extra money as webcam girls.  This movie had some of the worst cheer routines that I have ever seen and none of the cheerleaders seemed like they really had much spirit.  Their cheers were awful.  “Are you ready to play/G0 Sharks/It’s your big day!”  Whoever wrote that should be ashamed.  Hearing that’s not going to give the Sharks the extra encouragement they need to win!

When Maisy gets too close to the truth, another cheerleader spikes her water right before a big media event.  Drugged Maisy loses one of her pom-poms in the middle of a routine and she has to crawl across the floor to get it.  When I was cheering in high school, that happened to me in practice a few times and I wasn’t even drugged!  Afterwards, Maisy’s coach says that if Maisy is on drugs, they can’t kick her off the squad because that will make it appear as if the cheerleaders weren’t willing to help her.  I can’t think of a cheerleading coach in the world who would follow that logic.

Watching this movie made me glad that I stopped cheering after high school.  Cheerleading in high school was fun, even though I was always worried that the people in the stands would notice that I always had bruises from falling during practice.  Eventually, I figured out that no one in high school cared as long as you smiled and looked cute in the uniform.  In college, though, they make you become a webcam girl and throw you off a building if you refuse!  It’s a whole other world!