Blood, Sweat and Cheer

When this movie started I thought, "Oh, good; a comedy that is going to make fun of the whole "Cheerleader" TVM genre". Certainly the mom posing as a high school girl played it that way, at least at first. But then it devolved into the typical formulaic movie MarVista is known for. Nothing about the movie was even slightly believable. That would have been fine if they had played it that way and gone for a campy comedy. But no. You have the usual plot elements all these movies have, culminating in the usual quick ending with no follow up.

If you read the 10 star reviews here and expect some good campy fun, you are going to be very disappointed.

Honestly one of the best Tubi original movies I have seen!!! The cast and story line was amazing!!! It's not the type of movie you'd think by watching the trailer. I seen some people making assumptions and comparing it to Freaky Friday without watching. Which it's no where close to it's a very great movie overall campy good horror fun. I am hoping that the movie gets a sequel and a continuation story the film could also even been done as a series which I would have loved to see all the characters have a chance to develop. If you're looking for a good laugh with a little campy horror this is definitely the movie to watch.

Laugh out loud funny, and campy in all the best ways! Chockfull of classic high school movie references from Never been Kissed to Mean Girls (and even a hint of Black Swan), Blood, Sweat and Cheer is a genuinely good time from beginning to end. Traci Hays took a great script and made it even better with the help of a stellar cast and an impressive production value. You can tell everyone on the crew truly enjoyed making this movie.

I will definitely be adding this one to my go-to guilty pleasures watch list. I just hope there's a sequel! I'd love to see what happens to the characters from here and I'm particularly interested in the mother-daughter relationship which only grew more and more complicated as the story progressed.

Of course I had not heard about this 2023 movie titled "Blood, Sweat and Cheer" prior to sitting down and watching it here in 2025. But I have to admit that I wasn't exactly harboring the biggest of expectations to the movie. However, I still opted to watch it, as it was a movie that I hadn't already seen.

Writer Barbara Zagrodnik put together a storyline that was a bit far fetched and implausible. But still proved to be a fair enough movie, as it was a tad out there.

I was not familiar with a single actress or actor on the cast list, which was actually something that spoke in favor of the movie, as I enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen.

Sort of a silly movie, given the storyline, but actually proved entertaining enough for how far out there it was.

My rating of director Traci Hays's 2023 movie "Blood, Sweat and Cheer" lands on a five out of ten stars.

I really just wanted something fun and different to watch and I got it. The fact that the mom could in no way pass off as a teenager but everyone involved has no choice but to believe it is hilarious. The whole movie was made by those bangs. NO ONE would ever believe that was real hair and yet no one in the high school said a thing. The mom's temper tantrums were LOL and at the same time disturbing. Her sister is beyond annoying, who just goes into their relatives' house without first calling/knocking?! Rude. This movie is so ridiculously beyond being believable but that's the point, success!!