Her girl power solution: Rob a bank. In preparation, the A Squad studies videos of ''Dog Day Afternoon'' and ''Reservoir Dogs''; one rebellious teammate (Mena Suvari) also gets professional advice from her mama (Sean Young!), who's doing time in jail. Finally the cheerleaders, resplendent in American flag capes and Betty masks, enact their own white chick version of ''Set It Off.''
Australian first time feature director Francine McDougall offers a definite sense of style bright colors, widescreen format -- but also an inconsistent sense of what's funny about the ''Bonnie without Clyde'' lives of perpetually peppy, gun toting high school girls in a post Columbine world.
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