The screenplay is patchy and inconsistent, and provides few chuckles.
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04/24/09
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.
Australian Rating: TBC
Genre: Comedies
Australian Theatrical Release:
May 21, 2009 Wide
US 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... [More]
Starring: Sarah Roemer, Nicholas D'Agosto, Molly Sims, Eric Christian Olsen
Director: Will Gluck
Reviews for Fired Up
Top CriticU-G-L-Y.
04/24/09
Top CriticIt fails, partly through prudery -- the "nude" scenes are notably unrevealing -- and partly because the leading men make no effort to perform their own stunts.
04/24/09
Top CriticIt's very tame, and that's a quality no mindless movie can afford.
04/23/09
Top CriticMost 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
04/18/09
Top CriticA harmless teen comedy with more enthusiasm than cinematic merit, Fired Up! combines silliness, low-brow humour, romance and cheerleading acrobatics in its formulaic and predictable arsenal
04/18/09
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08/19/09
This is not made for anyone with more than a sprinkling of intelligence.
07/10/09
A charmless, witless, lumbering mess. Almost nothing could redeem this lame comedy.
07/10/09
Top CriticTrashy values place this generic comedy decidedly in the Bush era.
07/10/09
Top CriticFired 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.
07/10/09
A lamentably unfunny flick.
07/10/09
Top CriticFive, six, seven, eight; Fired Up is not so great.
07/10/09
Top CriticThis aggressively stupid comedy tries to have it both ways, advocating sexual probity while its cameras linger over acres of golden female thighs.
07/10/09
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.
07/10/09
Clichéd execution, paper-thin characters.
07/10/09
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.
07/10/09
Surprisingly, first-time director Will Gluck takes this raunchy premise and twists it into a boobs-free romantic comedy.
07/10/09
Dross.
07/10/09
Most of the gags are blah, blah, blah rather than ra, ra, ra.
07/10/09
Latest News for Fired Up
March 01, 2009:
Foul mouthed football players turned cheerleaders, with all the elegance of a sledgehammer, come off as far too horny for high school. Earplugs, please. Not to mention a too much information, accidental promo for home schooling. Hose this one down. 
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