{"id":8899,"date":"2009-08-06T22:28:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T05:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=8899"},"modified":"2020-12-20T21:20:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T04:20:56","slug":"pom-pom-girls-the-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=8899","title":{"rendered":"Pom Pom Girls, The (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Who the hell do you think you are &#8212; James Dean?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Poster-197x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-58733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Poster-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Poster-673x1024.png 673w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Poster-84x128.png 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Poster-177x270.png 177w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Poster.png 729w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 1970s Southern California, horny teenage buddies Johnnie (Robert Carradine) and Jesse (Michael Mullins) have fun in the sun while pursuing a couple of cheerleaders (Lisa Reeves and Jennifer Ashley) and trying to avoid bullying by a menacing football coach (James Gammon) and Reeves&#8217; hulky boyfriend (Bill Adler).\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>High School<\/li>\n<li>Teenagers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary is ultimately too generous in his review of this utterly tiresome &#8220;sex and mayhem&#8221; teen comedy, which he accurately notes &#8220;doesn&#8217;t live up to its underground reputation&#8221; as a &#8220;bonafide cult hit&#8221;. He points out that the male leads are &#8220;jerks&#8221; (Carradine would fare much better as uber-nerd Louis Skolnick in <em>Revenge of the Nerds<\/em>), Joseph Ruben&#8217;s direction is &#8220;unimaginative&#8221;, and &#8220;the rude boys&#8217; behavior is annoying&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Carradine.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Carradine-1024x597.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"373\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-58734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Carradine-1024x597.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Carradine-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Carradine-128x75.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Carradine-768x447.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Carradine-1536x895.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Carradine-463x270.png 463w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Pom-Pom-Girls-Carradine.png 1605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;conventional storyline&#8221; doesn&#8217;t offer anything new or interesting to the genre of teen sexploitation flicks &#8212; and while Peary claims that &#8220;there are enough okay moments&#8230; to make it acceptable drive-in fare&#8221;, it&#8217;s certainly nothing all-purpose film fanatics should have to sit through. This is one tedious flick. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><br \/>\nNot much. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nDefinitely not. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075086\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/reviews\/24587\/starlite-drive-in-theater-the-pom-pom-girls-the-van\/\">DVD Talk Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=2564&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Who the hell do you think you are &#8212; James Dean?&#8221; Synopsis: In 1970s Southern California, horny teenage buddies Johnnie (Robert Carradine) and Jesse (Michael Mullins) have fun in the sun while pursuing a couple of cheerleaders (Lisa Reeves and Jennifer Ashley) and trying to avoid bullying by a menacing football coach (James Gammon) and Reeves&#8217; hulky boyfriend (Bill Adler). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Cheerleaders High School Teenagers Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Peary is ultimately too generous in his&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=8899\"> 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899","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=8899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58739,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions\/58739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}