funny & girly
Added 7/12/2009
I love this movie, its soo funny, and cute.
Such an awesome and funny way to "graduate".
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I bought this film because of all the good reviews it received on here. But you know what, I have to say this is the most disturbing film I've ever seen in my life. I was looking for a cute film showing homosexuality in a positive light, but what I got instead was a creepy film that left me wondering if it was filled with subliminal messages. Just the way color was used throughout the film bothered me. All in all, I watched it once, then promptly took it outside to the dumpster so I'd never have to see it again. I gave it a one star rating because they wouldn't let me give it any less, but if I had the choice it would get nothing more than a negative 10. I would never ever suggest this movie to anyone and I think it could possibly be used as a torture device.
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A must have for all LGBT film collections
Added 3/23/2009
This is one of the best self discovery / coming out movies ever made. It is also the funniest appealing to both men and women. The story centers around a young woman's self discovery and dealing with the repercussions it causes in her life. This film has no real "dirty parts" but it dose star Rupaul as a male teacher at a private school teaching Queer kids to act Straight. I feel it deserves a place in every LGBT film collection.
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Endearing!
Added 3/1/2009
Too cute for words! It teaches a good and needed message; it's absolutely hilarious as well! The art direction is to die for!
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Reparative Comedy-- Laughs Won Out
Added 1/5/2009
"But I'm a Cheerleader" is a campy,sardonic take on the "ex-gay" camps for youngsters. Megan (Natasha Lyonne) realizes she's noticing her fellow squad members more than her footballer boyfriend,and her parents, Bud Cort (of "Harold and Maude") and Mink Stole along with Michelle Williams (of "Brokeback Mountain") stage an intervention. Megan is driven off,unwillingly,to True Directions,where girls wear pink and boys wear blue. The nasty Mary (a hilarious Cathy Moriarty) is in charge,with her son Rock (Eddie Cibrian,of soap opera and "Ugly Betty" fame)Megan must go through the Five Steps to become heterosexual.
True Directions,in many ways,parallels real-life "ex-gay" camps. Boys&girls are forced into gender roles. The boys chop wood;the girls put on make-up (with the butch,androgynous female Jan,it's funny,along with RuPaul teaching manliness) They are taught the superiority of heterosexuality. In family therapy,they are supposed to reveal what traumas made them what they are (Dr. Joseph Nicolosi's former patients have admitted they've fabricated abuse stories to please him,similar things happen in Scientology auditing on e-meters) True Directions promises quick change in a short time. There's one program called Stepping Out of Alternative Lifestyles that promises to change orientation in six weeks; Ted Haggard claims Jesus straightened him out in three weeks. The only difference between the movie&real-life reparative therapy is "Simulated Sexual Lifestyle." Reparative therapy assumes LGBT teens already know what heterosexual intimacy involves. They don't have to play-act it. It's purely a fabrication for the movie for laughs.
In "But I'm a Cheerleader", the teens grow restless. (One of them is played by Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet's paramour in "Heavenly Creatures") Megan catches a pair of boys making out. She finds herself falling for Graham. There's a pair of renegade gays who take the teens to a gay bar. At the gay bar,Megan dances with Julie Delpy (of "Before Sunrise") The movie doesn't portray gays as perfect either. The gay couple bickers; at the gay bar,there's jealousy aplenty. Megan and Graham's romance grows. In the end,love triumphs over adversity and prejudice.
"But I'm a Cheerleader" mocks the underlying assumptions of reparative therapy. It does strike a chord. Such therapies assume that if LGBT teens imitate straights,change their mannerisms&dress,they'll change. Instead,it teaches play-acting. Teens are taught to care more about how others think about them than think for themselves; there's also dissembling. To add to the confusion, reparative therapies differ in their fundamentals. The Catholic group Courage's aim is to get gays in touch with their "fundamental heterosexuality." Evangelical groups like Exodus pursue a "born-again" experience,with gays becoming straight. Some Catholics believe all people are heterosexual,but some have same-sex attractions (like Fr. John Harvey); other Catholics believe heterosexuality is an achievement,one must become heterosexual (one Vatican document says that prospective seminarians must have "achieved heterosexuality") Dr. Joseph Nicolosi has the confusing "femininity is a threat to manliness,but attraction to women is fundamental to manliness."
"But I'm a Cheerleader" is a cheerful take on a serious subject. Campy,cheesy,and with RuPaul teaching masculinity,you can be a supermodel,superstar!
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funny & girly
Added 7/12/2009
I love this movie, its soo funny, and cute.
Such an awesome and funny way to "graduate".
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I bought this film because of all the good reviews it received on here. But you know what, I have to say this is the most disturbing film I've ever seen in my life. I was looking for a cute film showing homosexuality in a positive light, but what I got instead was a creepy film that left me wondering if it was filled with subliminal messages. Just the way color was used throughout the film bothered me. All in all, I watched it once, then promptly took it outside to the dumpster so I'd never have to see it again. I gave it a one star rating because they wouldn't let me give it any less, but if I had the choice it would get nothing more than a negative 10. I would never ever suggest this movie to anyone and I think it could possibly be used as a torture device.
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A must have for all LGBT film collections
Added 3/23/2009
This is one of the best self discovery / coming out movies ever made. It is also the funniest appealing to both men and women. The story centers around a young woman's self discovery and dealing with the repercussions it causes in her life. This film has no real "dirty parts" but it dose star Rupaul as a male teacher at a private school teaching Queer kids to act Straight. I feel it deserves a place in every LGBT film collection.
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