In Sugar & Spice (2001) Australian director Francine McDougall brings us a wholesome and smart comedy heist movie set around a highschool cheer squad who stage a robbery to raise money for their pregnant captain. Remarkably, most of the jokes stand up after almost two decades, although the film's homophobia has certainly aged badly. We swoon over goofy young James Marsden and universal heart-throb Conan O'Brien and analyse the marketing mishaps that caused this film to sink into the abyss.