Movie Review: Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal Based on a True Story

OoOoOo there is really nothing I love more than movies that are based on true story's; although many of these 'based on true story' flicks are very over done, and things are sometimes added in that were never true. However after reading a few news articles on the REAL Fab Five story, it turned out that the Lifetime original movie did a pretty dang good job at keeping things relatively in sync with reality.

Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal is basically the real story put together into a movie, and to be honest it was a pretty good flick. The story takes place in a the small town of McKinney, Texas and it involves of course a group of 5 cheerleaders. These cheerleaders are not your average pretty girl hopping around in a short skirt waving pom poms around though. You see one girl who is considered the ring leader of the Fab Five thinks she rules the rouse because her mother is the schools Principal, and it appears that no matter how horrible she, and her group of 4 friends are, they never face any real punishments for their actions, because the Principal lets them off easily.

Things however take a turn for the Fab Five as soon as a new coach for the cheerleaders team takes over. The new coach quickly learns about the Fab Five through the rumor mill at school. According to a few teachers she wouldn't be the first, second, or even third new coach the team has had this year. In fact, the Fab Five manages to get rid of any and every new coach they get if she does something they do not like.

When the new coach tries getting one of the Fab Five pulled from the team due to her not being able to perform certain tasks for the team, the Fab Five seek revenge.

The coach does not allow the girl on the team, and no less than 24 hours later, the coach is told by the principal that she suddenly 'is' allowed back on to the team.

Pretty quickly the coach learns that no matter what she says or orders these girls to do, the schools head principal will go over her head and allow the girls to do whatever they want.

Throughout their reign, the 5 girls managed to get away with drinking and driving on school grounds, posting sexually suggestive photos on the internet in their uniforms, stealing school teachers phone numbers and using them to send perverted text messages, mouthing off to their teachers, beating up other girls, threatening school officials, and basically running around with no regards for the rules, and the law.

Basically the majority of the show you watch as the Fab Five try and ruin the new coaches life, they try to get her to quit.

This coach though is a hard baller, and she does everything in her power to see that the girls face consequences for when they do something they are not supposed to. No matter how many times the coach reports the girls though, there never seems to be any punishment instilled, as the Principal always lets them off lightly with little to no punishment at all.

After a tiring and frustrating battle with the principal, the coach then instead decides to get the media involved; she figures if the school won't do anything about the 5 girls, than perhaps getting the media involved will bring them down.

My Feelings:
 
Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal was actually a pretty good movie. I honestly wasn't expecting it to be a good flick seeing how cheerleaders were out main characters, however it surprised me and had a very wicked 'Mean Girls' like vibe to it. What makes it all the more wickedly delicious though is the fact that this movie followed a real life story nearly to the tee.

For more information on the Fab Five, do a quick google search. Not only will you find actual news articles from the story, but you can also view photos of the girls who apparently thought they were beautiful and powerful enough to get away with anything. The actors in the flick were a heck of a lot hotter than the real group of girls. The real group look like your typical teenage girls. Nothing special, and definitely nothing that would ever pass for popular where I come from.

For me most of them are just blah. I just found it so funny to see the real Fab Five, and was pretty impressed that these girls were capable of doing anything that was played out in this movie. I guess looks can be deceiving, seeing how most of them look like typical boring teen girls.

All in all though, I felt that what the girls did was typical mean girls teenage crap, only they got away with it without punishment (at the time they did anyway), as of now though I'm sure plenty of them are being harassed due to the media attention, and now this movie that have peaked the interest of many into wanting their real names. The saying goes though, do on to others...
 
Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal as of now is not on DVD, but it can be picked up on a DVD disc copy at iOffer for just a few dollars. You also may get lucky and find it being shown on Lifetime, so check your cable listings.

I recommend it, not highly, but I was kept entertained, and the story was interesting. The actors and actresses also did a great job at portraying their characters.

I'd slap a 3.5 rating out of 5 on to Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal.