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Fired Up (2009)

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Reviews Counted:101

Fresh:23

Rotten:78

Average Rating:3.9/10

Consensus: Though not as raunchy or juvenile as the average teen comedy, Fired Up is also not as funny.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual content throughout, partial nudity, language and some teen partying.

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Feb 20, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $16,755,117

Synopsis: Shawn (Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) are top scorers on the Ford High School football team…both on and off the field. When they hatch a scheme to trade their footballs for pom... Shawn (Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) are top scorers on the Ford High School football team…both on and off the field. When they hatch a scheme to trade their footballs for pom poms and join the school’s most beautiful girls at cheer camp, the new team members actually give the girls’ historically awful cheer squad a chance at success. And when Shawn falls for the head cheerleader (Sarah Roemer), the boys must learn some new moves and unleash their inner spirit to prove their intentions before the all-important cheer competition finals. --© Sony Pictures [More]

Starring: Sarah Roemer, Nicholas D'Agosto, Molly Sims, Eric Christian Olsen

Starring: Sarah Roemer, Nicholas D'Agosto, Molly Sims, Eric Christian Olsen, Annalynne McCord, John Michael Higgins

Director: Will Gluck

Director: Will Gluck
Screenwriter: Freedom Jones
Studio: Warner Bros.

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Call me crazy, but as a red-blooded American male, I enjoy watching hot girls in skimpy outfits jump around on the movie screen.

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment 3 Comments
02/20/09
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

"F.U. stands for funny. An outrageous sex-obsessed teen comedy that's something to cheer about - especially if you're 16.

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment 2 Comments
02/20/09
Pete Hammond
Pete Hammond
Hollywood.com

The screenplay is patchy and inconsistent, and provides few chuckles.

Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia) | comment 1 Comment
04/24/09
Andrew J. McGlinn
Andrew J. McGlinn
FILMINK (Australia)

S-U-C-K! What does this movie do? It sucks! O-M-F-G! It sucks!

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment 1 Comment
03/16/09
Dan Lybarger
Dan Lybarger
eFilmCritic.com

If today’s modern cheerleader -- half porn star, half girl next door -- distracts viewers from the game, shouldn’t the modern cheerleader movie distract us from a lack of minor incidentals like believable plot points and honest comic zingers?

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment 1 Comment
02/18/09
Joshua Rothkopf
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York

Check my man card at the door and begin making fun of me because I have to admit to completely enjoying Fired Up!.

Full Review Source: Examiner.com | comment 1 Comment
02/20/09
Matthew Razak
Matthew Razak
Examiner.com

Oh, is this movie bad.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment 1 Comment
02/19/09
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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It's very tame, and that's a quality no mindless movie can afford.

Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment 1 Comment
04/23/09
Sandra Hall
Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald

Violates the most basic rules of cinematic storytelling grammar; and for this reason it transfixed me.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment 1 Comment
02/25/09
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

Most of the gags are blah, blah, blah rather than ra, ra, ra.

Full Review Source: Sun Online | comment Comment
07/10/09
Sun Online

Dross.

Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | comment Comment
07/10/09
Daily Mail [UK]

Surprisingly, first-time director Will Gluck takes this raunchy premise and twists it into a boobs-free romantic comedy.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
07/10/09
Total Film
N/R

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Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
08/19/09
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Not content to be just another dumb high school flick, it's actually teaching young, virginal viewers to treat women like stupid, submissive slut-cattle for the rest of their lives.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
02/18/09
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice

A misogynistic American teen gross-out comedy. Celebrating male promiscuity as a rite-of-passage while demonising girls for sleeping around, it never even attempts to punish its protagonists for their horn-dog ways.

Full Review Source: Scotsman | comment Comment
07/10/09
Alistair Harkness
Alistair Harkness
Scotsman

Fired Up will never win any prizes for wit or originality. The jokes are obvious, the plot is predictable and the whole formulaic film feels like a gentler throwback to racy Eighties teen comedies like Porky’s.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | comment Comment
07/10/09
Allan Hunter
Allan Hunter
Daily Express

Fired Up delivers consistent laughs, and it treats its female characters (and even its gay ones) with enough dignity that you won't hate yourself in the morning.

Full Review Source: MSNBC | comment Comment
02/18/09
Alonso Duralde
Alonso Duralde
MSNBC

Most of the characters are unappealing in many ways; many of the girls are air heads with so little nous as to be embarrassing. Most of the young males are either obnoxious, self obsessed caricatures, sexual predators without teeth, or nerds

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
04/18/09
Andrew L. Urban
Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile

A puerile, remedial class version of Wedding Crashers.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
07/10/09
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

As long as you're willing to suspend your disbelief and check your brain at the door, you'll find Fired Up! to be a zany and mindlessly entertaining laugh riot.

Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | comment Comment
02/20/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru
 
 
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