{"id":37131,"date":"2016-08-19T09:03:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T16:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=37131"},"modified":"2021-01-30T21:02:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T04:02:22","slug":"cheerleaders-the-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=37131","title":{"rendered":"Cheerleaders, The (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Mom! Dad! I made the team!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cheerleaders-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cheerleaders-Poster-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cheerleaders-Poster-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cheerleaders-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cheerleaders-Poster-768x1163.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cheerleaders-Poster-676x1024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cheerleaders-Poster.jpg 1851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA virginal teen (Stephanie Fondue) with a ho-hum boyfriend (Jonathan Jacobs) is thrilled to join her school&#8217;s squad of promiscuous cheerleaders &#8212; Claudia (Denise Dillaway), Bonnie (Jovita Bush), Debbie (Brandy Woods), Suzie (Clair Dia), and Patty (Kimberly Hyde) &#8212; who will stop at nothing to help their team win the game, and who are determined to help Fondue lose her virginity.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cheerleaders<\/li>\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Football<\/li>\n<li>Virginity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary lists many questionable titles in his <em>GFTFF<\/em>, including numerous hardcore and softcore flicks that should be considered with caution. With that said, I&#8217;ll quickly note that this &#8220;Camp Classic&#8221; &#8212; beloved by men-of-a-certain-age who remember it fondly from their youth &#8212; is actually a terribly acted but competently filmed piece of softcore p*** that, as noted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindhousefilm.com\/podcast\/episode-03\/the-cheerleaders\">Grindhouse Film&#8217;s podcast review<\/a>, &#8220;promotes unprotected teenage sexual activities and rape&#8221;. These cheerleaders are so over-the-top in every way that it&#8217;s impossible to take them or their antics seriously &#8212; but certain scenes are still deeply disturbing in their implication that nubile young women are eagerly awaiting any and every opportunity to &#8220;get it on&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some creative sets<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cheerleaders-Sets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cheerleaders-Sets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cheerleaders-Sets.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cheerleaders-Sets-128x69.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cheerleaders-Sets-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cheerleaders-Sets-768x414.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNope. If you&#8217;re nostalgic for this kind of flick, you know who you are already. Listed as a Camp Classic in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068364\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=8944&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindhousefilm.com\/podcast\/episode-03\/the-cheerleaders\">Grindhouse Film Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mom! Dad! I made the team!&#8221; Synopsis: A virginal teen (Stephanie Fondue) with a ho-hum boyfriend (Jonathan Jacobs) is thrilled to join her school&#8217;s squad of promiscuous cheerleaders &#8212; Claudia (Denise Dillaway), Bonnie (Jovita Bush), Debbie (Brandy Woods), Suzie (Clair Dia), and Patty (Kimberly Hyde) &#8212; who will stop at nothing to help their team win the game, and who are determined to help Fondue lose her virginity. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Cheerleaders Comedy Football Virginity Review: Peary lists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=37131\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37131"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67243,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37131\/revisions\/67243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}