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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.

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... 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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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)
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U-G-L-Y.

Full Review Source: Time Out Sydney | comment Comment
04/24/09
Joshua Rothkopf
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out Sydney
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It fails, partly through prudery -- the "nude" scenes are notably unrevealing -- and partly because the leading men make no effort to perform their own stunts.

Full Review Source: The Age (Australia) | comment Comment
04/24/09
Jake Wilson
Jake Wilson
The Age (Australia)
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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
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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
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A 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

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
04/18/09
Louise Keller
Louise Keller
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N/R

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

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 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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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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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

A lamentably unfunny flick.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
07/10/09
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
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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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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

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

Clichéd execution, paper-thin characters.

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07/10/09
Ben Walters
Ben Walters
Heat Magazine

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

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

Dross.

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

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
 
 
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