I definitely thought this year's movie was better than last year's. However, I still found myself bored during the routines...likely because I saw it all live just two weeks ago.
They seemed to ALMOST go there with the "cheer is really hard and mistakes happen" angle...but didn't quite give enough of it. I would have liked for them to show more of the falls, the mistakes, and give an angle on why that happens. Maybe go with the "there are no second chances, no time outs, no second string" type of angle and go ahead and show the mistakes. They did some...but not much.
I definitely liked seeing more stories about the coaches/athletes.
The prom part...ugh. That was SO boring!! And as someone above mentioned...I found myself having to look away because it was making me dizzy. I would have preferred to see more of the actual "prom" than the red carpet. But even live...the red carpet this year was blah. Very anti-climatic. I love the idea of the prom for the athletes...not sure it needs to be in the movie unless they do a better job making it entertaining. Get some video of kids dancing together...chatting with their friends...something.
I would like for them to have shown the results of the entire competition...not just let us know that SE won...everyone knows they won...what we don't know is the rest of the results.