Britney Allen is a senior and cheerleading captain, dating star quarterback of Pacific Vista High. She is living a dream life as cheer captain of the 'Pirates' along with so-called best friend and rival, the overly-ambitious Winnie Harper. All that changes however, when Britney finds out that her father has lost his job, has to take a pay cut and relocate to Crenshaw Heights, a working-class neighborhood that Britney takes quite a while to adjust to. There she immediately gets on the wrong foot of Camille, head cheerleader of the Crenshaw Heights 'Warriors' and her friends, Kirresha and Leti, fellow cheerleaders as well. She also meets Jesse, another male cheerleader who is the only nice person to her on her first day. After being dared by Camille and Jesse to show up at cheerleading tryouts (which Britney is reluctant to go to as she believes cheering with any other team after the Pirates would make her, as Winnie puts it, a cheerwhore), Britney impresses everyone with her cheer experience and Camille, after being persuaded by her friends to "do it for the squad", reluctantly accepts her into their squad. Around this time, Rihanna hosts a TV special where all high school cheerleading squads get to compete and the winning squad gets to appear in a music video with her and wins brand new computers for their school. Winnie finds out that Britney is actually cheering with the Warriors even after she swore not to and rats Britney out to her friends. A week later, Britney lies to Camille, telling her that she cannot cheer at the game as she is holding a memorial service for her dead dog, when actually she needs to be at Pacific Vista's Homecoming dance. Camille and Jesse arrive at Britney's to offer their condolences when they see Britney and Brad dressed up and Camille kicks her off the squad. At the dance, Winnie openly reveals to everyone that she has been sleeping with Brad behind Britney's back and Britney dumps Brad on the spot and tells Winnie that she is "too much of a backstabber to have any real friends". The next day, the day of the auditions, Britney comes to wish the Warriors good luck when Winnie, with the rest of her team, humiliates and makes fun of the Warriors. Britney stands up to Winnie and Camille, impressed by this, lets Britney cheer with them again. Jesse, however, is still mad at her as she had never mentioned that she had a boyfriend, not even when they kissed. At the auditions, the two finalists are Pacific Vista and Crenshaw Heights. PV wows the audience with their routine and Camille begins to get worried. Then Britney points out that all their steps are repetitive and that they have their secret weapon: krumping. CH, now dressed in cargos, steps on stage during PV's performance and begins mirroring their steps. Finally, they begin krumping, wiping PV off the stage. Then, impressing Rihanna with their routine and with Winnie calling CH "ghetto", Rihanna declares Crenshaw Heights the winners. Britney and Jesse make up, kissing backstage after their first performance. The two begin to go out. The movie ends with a made-for-movie video of Rihanna's Pon De Replay with the Crenshaw Heights squad dancing in the background.Watch
