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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: 12A [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual content throughout, partial nudity, language and some teen partying.

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:10-07-2009

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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Five, six, seven, eight; Fired Up is not so great.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
07/10/09
Xan Brooks
Xan Brooks
Guardian [UK]
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Broad and very silly, this comedy just about keeps us chuckling even when things get stupid and predictable

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
07/09/09
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Fired Up is cinema as abuse, and its chief victim is any paying audience. To have shelled out cash for this witless farrago of sub-Porky's japery and straight-to-bargain-bin acting would be the airborne spin that broke the cheerleader's back.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
07/10/09
Rob Daniel
Rob Daniel
Sky Movies

This aggressively stupid comedy tries to have it both ways, advocating sexual probity while its cameras linger over acres of golden female thighs.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
07/10/09
David Gritten
David Gritten
Daily Telegraph
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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

A lamentably unfunny flick.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
07/10/09
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
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Fired Up is big on stereotypes (hello, gay Indian guy), overstatement (if you didn't already realise, loud = funny) and borderline homophobia. To paraphrase Repo Man, the longer you watch this, the stupider you might become.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
07/10/09
Richard Luck
Richard Luck
Channel 4 Film
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This is not made for anyone with more than a sprinkling of intelligence.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
07/10/09
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London

A puerile, remedial class version of Wedding Crashers.

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

Fired Up is a desperate and vacuous attempt at a teen comedy that not only lacks laughs, but even the gross-out moments and shameless nudity used by other such genre offerings.

Full Review Source: Digital Spy | comment Comment
07/10/09
Ben Rawson-Jones
Ben Rawson-Jones
Digital Spy

Trashy values place this generic comedy decidedly in the Bush era.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
07/10/09
Joshua Rothkopf
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out
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A charmless, witless, lumbering mess. Almost nothing could redeem this lame comedy.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
07/10/09
Sam Toy
Sam Toy
Empire Magazine
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Ultimately let down by obnoxious characters, a half-hearted plot and a criminal lack of actual nudity.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
07/09/09
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Clichéd execution, paper-thin characters.

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07/10/09
Ben Walters
Ben Walters
Heat Magazine

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

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

A teen comedy that views sex as an all-you-can-gorge buffet.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
02/20/09
Kamal Al-Solaylee
Kamal Al-Solaylee
Globe and Mail

Gimme a B! Gimme an L! Gimme an A! Gimme an N! Gimme a D! What's that spell? BLAND!

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
02/24/09
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
Film Journal International
 
 
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