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Fired Up
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 18 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Freedom Jones
Directed by: Will Gluck
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 20, 2009
DVD: June 9, 2009
Running Time: minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
A kind of dumb but also kind of smart-about-being-dumb comedy.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
If this movie were a teenager, you'd put it on Ritalin right away.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
I didn't half-mind Fired Up, but half a mind is more than it deserves.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Fired Up feels like everybody's first time doing anything - writing, acting, directing, cheerleading.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
It's like being trapped for an hour-and-a-half in a pound full of yappy puppies.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Here is a movie that will do for cheerleading what "Friday the 13th" did for summer camp.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Regardless of how low your expectations are regarding Fired Up!, it will still surprise you, and not in a good way.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Tries waaay too hard, just like its motormouth jock-snark heroes.
Read Full Review >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?"
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.5 (out of 10) based on 18 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jesse M. gave it a7:
Despite this films failings -- and as the above reviewers had rattled on about at great length, there are many -- the chemistry between the two leads had me laughing start to finish. Perhaps I went it to it with such low expectations, it had to be good. Who knows...
TDKinDallas gave it a4:
A really bad movie, but I laughed a lot!
Jay H gave it a6:
There aren't many surprises, but I enjoyed the movie and it did at least make me laugh. The cast is fun and the characters are likable. Let's call it a guilty pleasure. Juliette Goglia is terrific as the conniving little sister.
Scott E gave it a7:
I took my two teenage kids to see this. Its not as bad as I thought it would be. Its entertaining and has some funny moments.
Michael N gave it a10:
I think the main reason it's getting reviews that aren't good is that the target audience is mainly younger people, rather than the people who are most likely to be reviewing it. I thought it was funny from the beginning to the end. It was joke after joke after joke. It was consistently funny throughout the entire movie. The ending is also kind of a surprise. It's definitely enjoyable, and it's worth seeing.
Chad S gave it a2:
"Fired Up" plods on without consequence in a sort of no man's land where both male and female audience members will be disappointed by the film's equivocal handling of the tropes prevalent in such teen "classics" as "American Pie" and "Bring it On". Conjuring hormonal-fueled hi-jinks under the parameters of its PG-13 rating, devitalizes the horndog-to-human being transformation that Shawn(Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick(Eric Christian Olsen) undergo when the delinquent football players both find love in what was, on first impression, the Shangri-La of booty calls: a cheerleading camp. The film's relative wholesomeness has the stagnating effect of making the jocks' lascivious natures seem wholesome by association; in effect, killing the anarchic spirit that is crucial to a genre which celebrates bacchanal decadence and godless immorality. "Fired Up" is a sex comedy that won't go to first base; it's a starter film for pre-adolescents not ready to lay their eyes on Shannon Elizabeth's immaculate breasts. "Fired Up" is the filmic equivalent of a training bra. As for the cheerleading-specific scenes in this bland, would-be comedic romp about the two sexes, to paraphrase John Lydon of Public Image Ltd., "This Is Not a Poor Man's Bring it On", either. "Fired Up" is not worthy enough to kiss the hem of Kirsten Dunst's lycra skirt. The routines are lost in the shoddy editing, and adding insult to injury, the infectious girly-ness of the Peyton Reed film is replaced by a sort of post-feministic plot point, in which the squad's impending success is contingent on Shawn and Nick's participation during the final cheer-off.
ricky r gave it an8:
This movie isn't as bad as everyone else is saying it is. it isn't only about two guys who are womanizers but also about a cheerleading squad that comes in last every year and with the help of these "womanizers" come up and do better than ever before.
