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Head cheerleader Diane Weston ([[Marley Shelton]]) has just been knocked up by her boyfriend, the football team's star player Jack Bartlett ([[James Marsden]]). Unfortunately, both their parents have disowned them, and they need a place to live, and more money than they have. So Diane has [[Sarcasm Mode|a brilliant plan]] to rob the supermarket's bank branch, with the help of the rest of the cheerleading squad. [[Better Than It Sounds]]. Also starts [[Marla Sokoloff]], [[Mena Suvari]], [[Melissa George]], and [[Alexandra Holden]].
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==== This movie contains the following tropes: ====
* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: On almost a stalkery level.
* [[A Simple Plan]]: Subverted; everything would've gone swimmingly if Lisa hadn't been there.
* [[A -Team Firing]]: The one time one of the guns accidentally goes off, it completely misses the redneck threatening them with a knife.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Kansas has a few.
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Jack, to an extreme extent.
* [[But You Screw One Goat!]]: Hannah seems awfully interested in horses...
* [[Camp Straight]]: Bruce.
* [[Clark Kenting]]: The girls perform the heist dressed as...cheerleaders...with rubber masks.
** Arguably [[Fridge Brilliance]] as: 1)Who would suspect ''Actual'' cheerleaders of robbing banks, and: 2)The number of Cheer leading groups in a general area.
* [[Cluster F -Bomb]]: Kansas.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Of varying degrees, but the most [[Egregious]] example is [[James Marsden]], who was old enough to be going to his tenth reunion.
* [[Deconstructor Fleet]]: A lot of the [[Teen Comedy]] genre is taken apart.
* [[Fell Off the Back of Aa Truck]]: The "free" TV and VCR Jack and Diane's landlord "gives" them.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Jack is ''really'' dim, but a great salesman.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Deliberately invoked. The squad watches heist movies to come up with a plan. Also averted, in that they don't find anything useful.
* [[Hey, ItsIt's That Guy!]]: This could be [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Warren Meers]] [[Start of Darkness]]... Also, [[Deadwood|W.B. Brown]] as the "[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Terminator]]".
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: [[Melissa George]]'s character becomes a scream queen in the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]], by starring in ''[[Scream (Filmfilm)|Scream]] 8''. While George wasn't in ''that'' movie, she has made a career of starring in horror movies, albeit more intelligent horror movies ([[Triangle|or at least movies that try to be intelligent]]). And since ''Scream 4'' came out recently...
** ''Scream 4'' also starred [[Marley Shelton]].
* [[Hollywood Homely]]: Fern is actually kinda cute. But she shouldn't fill the tanks before practice...
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The guy they get their guns from is called the "Terminator".
* [[Poke the Poodle]]: The girls watch heist movies to get ideas, but Hannah lives in a devout Christian household, and can only watch G-rated movies, so she watches ''[[The Apple Dumpling Gang]]''.
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: Cleo seems awfully interested in [[Conan O 'Brien]]...
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[Drop -Dead Gorgeous]]''. Both were written by Lona Williams, have similar themes, humor, characters and a few actors (like [[Alexandra Holden]]).
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Diane. [[Marley Shelton]]'s big anime eyes help the effect.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: The Betty masks.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]
 
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