Undercover Cheerleader (2019 TV Movie) User Reviews

There's been better.

[tomfsloan · 4/10 · 17 September 2019]

Here are my thoughts. Plotwise, it took forever to get something to actually happen. Unlike normal Lifetime movies, the first half hour was closer to Romy and Michele, or Harry Potter, or Nancy Drew, or something like that. The plot synopsis sounded much better than the actual movie. Some scenes had descent acting, other scenes...uh-uh. Such as the pointless pizza scene with the mom. In fact, every scene with the mom hurt. The party scene seemed endless. Typical useless police. On the plus side, the cinematography and music were pretty good.

For teenage high schoolers only

[Ed-Shullivan · 4/10 · 7 March 2021]

A shallow soap opera for a targeted teenage high school audience. The kids want to pull a fast one on the absentee mom and similar to the old Disney story line, trouble ensues. Is this a mystery worth solving? Not at all, unless you are a paid babysitter to a bunch of spoiled brats.

I give it a boring 4 out of 10 IMDB rating.

A Title which leads you to believe there will be cheerleading

[paulmueller-858-539929 · 5/10 · 25 September 2019]

The name says it all undercover cheerleader so you would expect this to be an expose on cheerleading but you would also expect to see some cheerleading routines in this movie about cheerleading. However this Quasi Nancy Drew type plot has really little to do with cheerleading itself. There is one routine at the end of the movie they indicate their going to try to regain their national championship title however I've seen stronger routines out of a mini or youth group than out of this senior squad movie was entertaining enough if you want a who dunnit type or Nancy Drew type special, however if you want a cheerleading movie like bring it on. Rewatching bring it on

Promising then fizzles out

[phd_travel · 5/10 · 19 September 2019]

Of the spate of cheerleader movies on Lifetime this one seemed to have some promise. The lead actress is pretty and the story about going undercover to expose bad deeds in the squad seemed interesting. After some silly false leads the ending seemed not to fit with what went on before.

Not worth it if you had to choose one of the recent Cheerleader movies.

Good story, bad writing

[damiensweeth · 3/10 · 21 September 2019]

Well, I've seen better acting in bad B movies Story is OK, but writing is so bad, lots of goofs It's watchable, if you have to

Yawn

[MyFriendsCallMeDirt · 2/10 · 25 March 2020]

Yawn through the character development scenes. Yawn through the build-up. Yawn during the climax. The premise was decent, but the script didn't deliver on it. Reminds me a lot of my first girlfriend: talked a good game, but never really got around to banging.

COULD'VE BEEN BETTER IN THE AUTUMN ....

[kupcr · 6/10 · 11 November 2020]

It's Autumn (actress Kayla Wallace from the show "The Good Doctor"), who is amazing in this LIFETIME movie and a great actress. She's definitely attractive, but as she goes undercover as a cheerleader in a highschool to do an exposé on the cruel culture of the squad for her school newspaper, someone is viciously attacking the other cheerleaders and Autumn begins to fear for her own life. My thoughts on this story is it is like the Stephen King movie Carrie and Get It On. It isn't really known who might be the villain in this movie, since there are several girls who could be the killer, but maybe the principal or maybe the Cheerleader Captain? It's a regular plotline with LIFETIME where you think you've figured it out and at the end you're like "What the....?" I loved the interaction between Autumn and Kara, especially with Jordan, her boyfriend. Maybe he's the killer? In this movie right from the get go, you're already Horatio Caine from CSI and Nancy Drew combined, but GOOD LUCK on that, because you won't know who the killer is until.... watch the film and it gets a low mark because it's a very confusing mess and until Autumn discovered something, THEN you figure it all out and quite sad, really....

Reverting expectation film

[nightroses · 4/10 · 10 May 2021]

There are too many cliches now in most recent lifetime thrillers. A new girl moves into a new town and starts a new school. Always the main character has a deceased parent. And their surviving parent has such a busy job that they end up going away on business, leaving the teenager alone for a while. More cliche stuff is the change of expectations that make one wonder why it doesn't make much sense. Another typical thing they do in lifetime movies is the killer makes a cup of tea laced with poison! OMG I counted many of these.

Secretive Investigative Reporter Runs Amok

[lavatch · 3/10 · 9 November 2020]

Autumn Bailey is a transfer student at Brookview High School, following the relocation of her single mom, Cynthia. Autumn decides to try out for the cheerleading squad with the express purpose of writing a series of muckraking articles about the toxic culture among the cheerleaders and their authoritarian coach. One thing leads to another, and a murder is committed. Autumn's articles unfortunately served more harm than good.

Autumn does not win the admiration of the audience when she lies to her mother when asked if she was the author of the articles. A pattern of deceit runs throughout the film among a very unsavory set of characters.

On the surface, the nastiest of the cheerleaders would appear to be Jenny, who gets demoted as captain. When Heidi, her successor, is subsequently killed, Jenny seems only one of almost any suspects that include the formidable coach Dot, Autumn's erstwhile boyfriend Jordan, Jenny's boyfriend Bode, or even Autumn's two colleagues on the school newspaper, Kara and Max.

An inherent problem with the film is that we really don't care about the characters. The most selfless was Autumn's mother, who sought and failed to build a relationship of trust with her daughter. The motto of the Brookview cheerleading team was, "We don't tolerate duds." The sad fact is apparent that through all of the calamity, Autumn decides to return to the cheerleading team. Perhaps she is the biggest dud of them all!

A teen movie where the lead is 31!!

[gladys64 · 1/10 · 1 May 2022]

All the leads were in their late 20's and the lead 31!!! Not weird at all!!! A train wreck and no appropriate. Watched 10 mins. Couldn't stand any more.

Expected better from Lifetime

[jdorego · 4/10 · 18 August 2020]

My love for mysteries made me sit through the whole thing. The acting was ok as Lifetime movies go but lacked any known teen TV actors they usually have. The actors made the best of a badly written story with far too many "who says that?" moments.

flawed Lifetime

[SnoopyStyle · 5/10 · 30 March 2021]

Autumn Bailey is the new kid at school. She and her mother left New York after the death of her father. She is befriended by Kara who shares a hatred of cheerleaders. Kara recruits her for the school newspaper to go undercover in the cheerleading squad. In addition to mean girls drama, there is more to uncover.

This is a Lifetime TV drama. It's a rather bland mystery drama with various issues. I don't mind the mean girl drama but it's not the most original. The mystery part has its own issue. It needs to be better written. First, Autumn should be the obvious rat of the newbies. She's the new kid at school and they first noticed her when she's talking to the nemesis Kara. The girls are functional actors. The twist is not the most ingenous but it's acceptable. This is flawed but there are worst on Lifetime.

Oh well

[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 25 March 2021]

Autumn is a new student in a new school that...yes, has daddy issues and yes...is somehow talented enough to become a top cheerleader with little to no effort. However, she's also working undercover, as the cheer team needs taken down a peg and the high school newspaper feels like the folk to do the job. It turns out that all of the cheerleaders take laxatives to stay skinny and then there's also a mystery maniac stalking all of them. So while the nod to the slasher made me happy, I really wanted more out of this. But hey - it's a cheerleader movie made in 2019, not something playing a drive-in in 1975. Could Autumn's new boyfriend be a killer? Why are girls so mean to one another? And how does dance translate so well to cheering? I have so many questions, which means that I have to keep watching movies like this to increase my knowledge base.

Don't waste your time!

[GMAGIC2525 · 1/10 · 28 September 2020]

This movie is absolutely horrible. Don't waste your time watching this train wreck. The only reason why I saw this movie was because the female lead was beautiful. Unfortunately the script lets her down. One of the WORST Lifetime movies I have ever seen in my life.