(AKA Cheerleaders' Wild Weekend) Cheerleaders from three schools take a bus for a competition in Sacramento. Along the way, they are taken hostage. It's a traumatic experience, but the girls still find the strength to dance topless for their kidnappers.
The rich school is Darwell High. Queen brats are Lisa (
Wally Ann Wharton) on the right, and Donna (
Janie Squire) on the left.
Polk High is considered the "bad" school - I guess because it's poorer and have more minorities.
Also on the bus headed to the Sacramento cheerleading competition is Pierce High.
Rich bitch Lisa taunts the cheerleaders from the other schools.
Lisa flashes a truck traveling behind them, causing the driver to crash (luckily no fatalities).
A guy posing as a police officer takes over the bus and commandeers it to a remote hideout. The girls quickly find that they're being abducted.
Three of the kidnappers, members of the National American Army of Freedom: George Henderson (
Anthony Lewis), Frankie (
Courtney Sands) and Wayne Mathews (
Jason Williams). Frankie is the school nurse who had come along as a chaperone, but is actually part of the NAAF.
The girls are kept in a room and given orders.
Mentally retarded Big John Hunsacker (
John Albert) takes a liking to Jeanne.
George offers the winner of a hot body competition the chance to make a phone call home.
Lisa doesn't need much incentive to take off her top.
The music is cranked up and Donna puts on a performance.
Big John likes what he sees.
Lisa takes it all off.
Jeanne is next.
This is so insane. These girls are captives at gunpoint... and they're putting on a disco striptease? WTF?
It's ludicrous as hell, but makes for a memorable scene.
Big John can't control himself any longer and jumps on Jeanne.
Frankie makes Jeanne feel better with a warm bath.
The National American Army of Freedom sends their demands (two million dollars) to a popular disc jockey, Joyful Jerome. The police are there to intercept the communications.
The ransom hand-off is to take place by this kiddie train.
Things go awry, money flies everywhere, and the children attack the piles of cash like animals.
Meanwhile, the cheerleaders have planned an attack. They take out Frankie, then also take care of George and Big John.
Wayne and Billy make off with the money. They nearly get away, but run into the bus reclaimed by the cheerleaders.
The cheerleaders actually let them pass (I guess they have a soft spot for the guys who abducted them?). THE END
This probably sounds a lot better than it was. It's good, don't get me wrong. But it's played so tongue-in-cheek, so purposefully stupid, that you'll have no investment in it whatsoever. If it was at least a comedy, then this approach is okay; but I'm not exactly sure what this was. It looks like they had fun making it, I'll say that much.
I should mention that Kristine DeBell (Meatballs) clearly was meant to be the "main" girl in this film, but she gets lost in the shuffle. DeBell refused to do nudity, so right-off-the-bat you're going to take a backseat to the other actresses. Which is strange, because she was totally naked in that Alice in Wonderland musical. Go figure.
★★★★★★☆☆☆☆6/10
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