#1 Cheerleader Camp

While watching #1 Cheerleader Camp, I came to the realization that I recognized all of the dialogue. I knew what was going to happen before anything did. I also noticed that I had been watching a horrible film for an hour. That's when it hit me- this movie is essentially a pornography devoid of any actual penetration. Everything flows the way a porn would, right up to the point where a penis would be shown.

Like one of Pavlov's mutts, when I hear shitty dialogue and see bad camera work, I know that sex is coming. This is the only reason I continued watching. Regardless, I did finish it. It provided a good laugh because I was watching it with a large group of guys.

"#1 Cheerleader Camp" is a stereotypical teenage comedy, but in my honest opinion, it seemed more like an excuse to show off fully or semi-naked women. It was actually reaching the point where it was becoming too much. When I watch a movie, I watch it to be entertained, and in this case to be entertained with laughs, not having to sit there and look at the female body being shown off in that manner.

The story told in the movie was simple and easy to follow. However, there weren't too many hilarious moments where you were left laughing hard. Those moments were sporadic at best. But in a way, the story actually kept me in the chair to see the end of the movie. And the story is, of course, very predictable. You know the ending well before you are at the actual end of the movie.

The characters in the movie were sort of generic and uninspiring. You have a guy with way too much teen hormones, who has to masturbate in almost every scene he is in. Sure it was funny at first, but it quickly became tedious and irritating. Then you have four exotic dancers (or strippers, if you will) who leave their job to go train for cheerleading? Yeah, very plausible. The main character is perhaps the one who is the most interesting of all characters. He choked at a gymnastic performance and have performance anxiety, so he will have to overcome this fear in order to help the cheerleading squad.

As for the actors and actresses, well they were actually doing a good job, and I would say all of them. Sure, it is not award winning material, but their performances were well enough. And it is no secret that the female cast was selected with the purpose to be shown off.

All in all, the movie is not too shabby, and I am sure that teenagers from 14 and up to reaching early adulthood will find this movie particularly nice. It appeals more to that audience with its humor and cheesy lines. But be warned, there is a lot of nudity in the movie. Just for a comedy of this type, I found it had too much focus on showing off women and nudity, so the comedy came second in line, and that was a shame.

The German title does suggest something like that, which is a bit unfair to the movie. Even though it is a sex comedy, the German title makes it worse than it is. The movie in general is generic though and they might have thought this trick would lure in more people (I watched this as "double bill" with another one of the same production house).

The bromance between our lead character and another character might elevate this movie a little bit. If you are not annoyed by it that is. The jokes might feel homophobic to some or harmless and not much fun to others. There is still some heart buried somewhere in here and sometimes it shines through. You will also get a fair amount of nudity, though that should not be your main concern

I have never hated a movie, or rated it below 5 regardless of how bad it was, but this one breaks all the limits.

This is just another pointless teen comedy, it is too predictable and its end is the worst. The events are not ordered coherently and so many parts of the movie are pointless and were just put there to flash a pair of tits. I agree, flash some tits once throughout the movie, that would be fine. But having tits shoved in your face for 1/5 the duration of the movie makes me wonder why am I watching it instead of any regular pornographic movie, even there, the acting would be even better than this movie.

The story line is half baked and the acting was horrible. Usually in movies like this you'll find one thing that attracts you to it, be it a specific inspiring character, or an interesting or funny part of the movie. But this movie lacks any of that, the movie barely made me smile with its cheesy jokes. I really miss that hour and half of my life.

#1 Cheerleader Camp (2010)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

The Asylum comes back with a teen sex comedy taking place at, you guessed it, a cheer-leading camp. Michael (Jay Gillespie), who everyone thinks is gay, and Andy (Seth Cassell), a real pervert, are two maintenance men at the camp when a group of girls get double crossed by a rival team. The two guy decide to help them out by hiring strippers to show the girls some real moves to win over the judges. Whenever a film starts off with big breasted, topless cheerleaders jumping on a trampoline then you know the thing can't be too bad. In fact, I'd probably go as far to say that this here is The Asylum's most professional looking film and while it's certainly stupid and silly, there are enough funny moments and trashy nudity to make it worth sitting through if you enjoy these type of teen sex comedies. The story itself is quite predictable as there's nothing going on here that's going to take anyone by surprise. The story follows just about every cliché you'd expect but that's not always a bad thing. The film doesn't try to be any sort of art film and instead it just tries to deliver raunchy jokes and nudity. The majority of the jokes are aimed at Andy who is on a "diet" that requires him to masturbate as many times a day as he can. This of course comes with looking in on girl's taking a shower, which just adds to the nudity level. The nudity is pretty much from the opening scene to the closing one so fans of that type of stuff (who doesn't love beautiful women naked?) should be happy. I thought the performances were better than what you'd normally see in a film like this and both Gillespie and Cassell are good enough together to help carry the film. Charlene Tilton plays herself, which was a little weird but her fans will probably enjoy seeing her. Erica Duke really steals the film with a very charming and cute performance as the good cheerleader. I thought she really did a nice job here and hopefully we'll eventually see her with some better material. #1 CHEERLEADER CAMP isn't going to win any major awards but it wasn't trying to. Fans of nudity and naughty little jokes should at least find it worth viewing once.