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Fired Up
Screen Gems (Sony)
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, partial nudity, language and some teen partying
Starring
Nicholas D'Agosto,
Eric Christian Olsen,
Sarah Roemer,
Molly Sims,
Danneel Harris,
Philip Baker Hall,
Adhir Kalyan,
and
Annalynne McCord
Shawn and Nick 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, 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Freedom Jones
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Will Gluck
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: February 20, 2009
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| RUNNING TIME: |
minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
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Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The teensploitation premise is like something a porn filmmaker from the '70s might have come up with. But Fired Up! has one added quirk: The script, credited to Freedom Jones, is a riot of tongue-twisting ironic sleaze -- it sounds like the first (and last) collaboration between Diablo Cody and Artie Lange.
63
Premiere
Patrick Parker
It’s surprisingly funny for another weak "American Pie" rip-off; Nicholas D'Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen make a hilarious pair; If you're under the age of 25 you’ll like it.
50
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A kind of dumb but also kind of smart-about-being-dumb comedy.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Kamal AL-Solaylee
The movie has a sharper and more acerbic screenplay than you normally find in bargain-basement, D-list teen comedies.
50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
If this movie were a teenager, you'd put it on Ritalin right away.
50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
I didn't half-mind Fired Up, but half a mind is more than it deserves.
50
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
Passable in its efficiency, Fired Up! is less offensive than it might have been while also managing to be staggeringly uninspired.
50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Though not nearly as raucously funny as the leads in "Wedding Crashers," Nick and Shawn resemble junior versions of the one-track-minded womanizers played by Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.
40
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
If you loved "Wedding Crashers," then, for all intents and purposes, you've already seen Fired Up – because this new movie borrows from the 2005 Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson hit with such utter shamelessness, you have to wonder if royalty checks are already in the mail.
38
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Fired Up feels like everybody's first time doing anything - writing, acting, directing, cheerleading.
30
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
It's like being trapped for an hour-and-a-half in a pound full of yappy puppies.
25
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Here is a movie that will do for cheerleading what "Friday the 13th" did for summer camp.
25
TV Guide
Perry Seibert
Raunchy.
25
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Regardless of how low your expectations are regarding Fired Up!, it will still surprise you, and not in a good way.
20
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Tries waaay too hard, just like its motormouth jock-snark heroes.
10
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
We're light years away from "Animal House," sure, but who ever thought we would long for the richer, funnier dignity of "American Pie?"
10
Washington Post
Jan Stuart
Will Gluck directs with frantic, go-for-broke pacing, which is what you do when your reserves of wit are bankrupt.
0
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
On the off chance that anyone out there would want to spend time with guys like this—and would appreciate a bonus plug for Staples' recycled paper products, too--this movie has been made just for them.
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