“Praise This” is a cheerful Gospel music “praise team” variation on every singing and/or dancing competition movie, from “Bring it On” to “Pitch Perfect.” It’s a star vehicle built around Georgia singer, composer and actress Chlöe, aka Chloe Bailey, and much of its screen time is spent showcasing pop group-styled singing and dancing choires competing to become National Praise Team Champions.

It’s so formulaic you can see many of the story’s twists coming, with each sequence and trope rigidly marching towards the next pre-ordained highlight. But “cheerful” counts for something, and the tunes, the often-broadly-drawn characters and the sassy, nasty/churchy trash talk, all in a Black Protestant churchgoing in Atlanta setting, make it watchable.

“Baby, try JESUS, do NOT try me!” That’s the tone, here.

Bailey plays a rebellious Angelino taken to Atlanta by her widowed dad in the hopes that his psychologist brother and their “churchy” and “bougy” family can straighten her out before she goes seriously wrong.

Sam is hellbent on becoming a famous singer, and was hanging with the wrong crowd to achieve her goals in LA. In Atlanta, she becomes the answer to her nerdy, sightly-off-key cousin Jess’s dreams. Jess (Anjelika Washington) always wanted a sister, so “sister/cousin” it is.

“Cousins, sisters — it’s the South. Doesn’t matter.”

Jess’s all about acclimating the sullen Sam to her new environment. “This is Atlanta. Sunday means CHURCH.”

That’s where Sam meets the corny praise choir that Jess sings and performs with, stuck with rich donor’s daughter Melissa’s (Birgundi Baker) dated R & B arrangements of Gospel classics such as “Break Every Chain” or “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.”

Their upstart abandoned “factory” church doesn’t stand a prayer against the Champions megachurch Champions praise team. They hired ringers to dominate this competition.

But Pastor PG (Tristan Mack Wilds) won’t lose faith, and “first lady,” his wife Natalie (Crystal Renee Hayslett) won’t let Sam’s “I don’t DO church,” “no relationship with God” attitude deter them.

“God used fish, donkeys, even ho’s to get His word out,” Natalie chirps, smiling and proseltyzing while judging Sam’s manners, choice of skin-baring attire and language.

Sam uses her LA connections to get into a party at local rapper-producer Ty’s (Quavo) studio and crib. The “fish out of water” comedy changes fish as she drags naive, virginal Jess with her.

“Oh God, he SEES us! I’m pregnant.”

Sam gives us the feeling that she’d do anything to get a music break. But her “break” just might come from that praise team, where her ability to “flip any song you’ve got for the Lord” will be tested.

As Gabrielle Union used to say in her cheer costume, “Bring it on.”

A few elements work better than others. A couple of the praise team members (Drew “Druski” Desbordes) have a moment or two.

And a couple of loud-mouthed “Muppet Show” styled hecklers are relentless in their off-stage ridicule of every sour note or cheesy dance turn.

“You’re goin’ down…ALL the way to Hell! Don’t LET the Devil win again!”

They’re the ones who lay out the parameters of what we’re seeing, performances that would’t pass muster with The Southern Baptists, for all sorts of obvious reasons. The borderline twerking nature of the shows are designed to “take it ALMOST to the club…the DOOR…But DON’T go in.”

Bailey’s a confident, charismatic stage performer and that informs her offstage presence as well. Washington may be playing a “Shut the hockey puck UP” innocent,” but she’s amusing at it.

The assorted mean girls and “Bless your heart” not-as-mean patronizing competitors score a grin here and there.

Not really enough amuses or dazzles, and attempts at giving us something emotionally “moving” or religilously inspiring fall well short of the mark. But for a middling-at-best movie, “Praise This” isn’t bad, even if it isn’t all that praiseworthy.

Rating: unrated, some profanity

Cast: Chlöe Bailey, Anjelika Washington, Tristan Mack Wilds, Crystal Renee Hayslett, Birgundi Baker, Michael Anthony, Quavo and Drew ‘Druski’ Desbordes

Credits: Directed by Tina Gordon, scripted by Camilla Blackett, Brandon Broussard and Tina Gordon. A Peacock release.

Running time: 1:52

Rating: unrated, some profanity

Cast: Chlöe Bailey, Anjelika Washington, Tristan Mack Wilds, Crystal Renee Hayslett, Birgundi Baker, Michael Anthony, Quavo and Drew ‘Druski’ Desbordes

Credits: Directed by Tina Gordon, scripted by Camilla Blackett, Brandon Broussard and Tina Gordon. A Peacock release.

Running time: 1:52