Also see The Films of Jack Hill
Jack Hill aptly describes this as his "Disney sex comedy." The Mesa State Cheerleaders are looking for just one more girl to fill out an ultra V-necked sweater when an unlikely candidate comes calling. Kate (Jo Johnston) knows how to shake her pompons, but what the squad doesn’t realize is that she’s actually a wannabe Woodward looking to distinguish herself as a student journalist by exposing the exploitation of broads on the sidelines. Once she makes the team, she decides its not so bad to go long with a football stud after all, especially upon realizing her activist beau’s a bigger slimeball than ANYONE on the starting line. Still, she does what she can to enlighten her giggling peers. Like when she counsels virginal Andrea (Rainbeaux Smith) against the tyranny of her bosom within an underwire Iron Maiden. Now, there’s a movement worth getting behind! Kate doesn’t have to dig too deep before she realizes there’s some shady something or another going on involving gambling and good ol’ Nixon-inspired corruption among Mesa officials. Things stray into slapstick in the final reel, but it’s SUPPOSED to be silly. Enjoy! CineSchlockers who know anything at all about college football might pull their hair out during the stock game footage, or giggle at the sight of actors wearing inside-out team jerseys from the high school where the practices were filmed.
Notables: Six breasts. No corpses. Streaking. Ogling with binoculars. Puking. Bitch slapping. Diddling. Gratuitous waterbed.
Quotables: Football stud prepares to whomp a sniveling hippie, "Don’t give me any of that ‘We shall overcome’ routine." Coach Turner knows how to treat a lady, "You can have all the fancy white bikinis and the rhinestone-studded jeans your pretty little heart desires." Mary Ann snarls at Kate, "I knew you were a BITCH from the first time I saw you!"
Time codes: A very preggers Rainbeaux springs abundantly from the constraints of her male oppression symbol (11:11). An eye-opening student/teacher conference (24:18). Mae Mercer brilliantly hijacks the movie at switchblade point (1:09:25). Mrs. Hill demonstrates her real-life nursing knowledge (1:27:42).