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Fired Up

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Fired Up

PG-13

Released Feb 20, 2009

1h 29m

Comedy

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High-school football stars Shawn Colfax (Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick Brady (Eric Christian Olsen) are dreading another summer at football camp, then Nick hatches a brilliant scheme: to enroll at cheerleading camp instead. Soon the pair are surrounded by beautiful girls, but the boys may have to revise their playbook when Shawn falls for Carly (Sarah Roemer), the head cheerleader who sees right through the guys' scheme.

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Critics Consensus

Though not as raunchy or juvenile as the average teen comedy, Fired Up is also not as funny.

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Christine Champ

Film.com

All spunk and no spark make for a mediocre movie.

Rated: C

May 6, 2011

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

This is not made for anyone with more than a sprinkling of intelligence.

Rated: 1/5

Jul 10, 2009

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Sam Toy

Empire Magazine

A charmless, witless, lumbering mess. Almost nothing could redeem this lame comedy.

Rated: 1/5

Jul 10, 2009

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

...has an easy charm to the sunny escapades shown here; it’s rare for a sex comedy to treat the macho posturings of the boys with disrespect, and Will Gluck’s film actually has more respect for women that the genre normally allows....

Rated: 3/5

Feb 12, 2024

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Boasts a remarkable amount of clever and inventive sexual metaphors, and a few eccentric characters that mask the lackluster, stereotypical illustrations.

Rated: 5/10

Nov 28, 2020

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

It's hard to figure out, then, what went wrong.

Rated: 2.5/4.0

Sep 7, 2020

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Ed R

A fun, cheesy, easy to watch comedy.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

05/05/25

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Audience Member

Hilarious. WHY WOULD YOU PUT THEM IN YOUR MOUTH????

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/13/24

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r96 s

So very dumb, yet kinda, actually, good... one to file under 'better than it has any right to be'. I'm not entirely sure how, but 'Fired Up!' suffices. Nicholas D'Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen make it work enough, they have decent chemistry and fit their respective roles - and that was needed, different casting and events would've flopped. The humour is silly yet mildly amusing, don't get me wrong I wasn't laughing or even chuckling but I wasn't cringed out for the most part and I smirked a few times to be fair. There are some solid music choices in there, tracks from the likes of Akon and Avril Lavigne somehow fit. I was expecting the story to a play out a little differently (worse), it actually portrays the development of the two main characters fairly well. It is quite funny how many of these 00s movies exist that involve the same sorta plot, almost a signature of the era. I decided to watch this as I noticed it was the only one of Will Gluck's movies that I had yet to see. 'Annie' aside, he is a very reliable director. 'Friends with Benefits' is his best thus far, I'd say.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/16/24

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S K

The only reason this is rated a 52% is bc 48% of ppl didn't get the joke (and satire). Absolutely hilarious. If I could rate it 6 stars I would. I legit pissed my pants the whole time.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/07/23

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Nick T

I love reading the reviews of this movie. There are the people who get that this movie is satirizing teen movies and high school stereotypes and the people who thought this was trying to be American Pie but failed. This movie is incredibly funny... If you get it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/24/23

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Audience Member

One of my favorite movies. Eric Christian Olsen is comedy gold. I have watched this over 100 times

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Synopsis

High-school football stars Shawn Colfax (Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick Brady (Eric Christian Olsen) are dreading another summer at football camp, then Nick hatches a brilliant scheme: to enroll at cheerleading camp instead. Soon the pair are surrounded by beautiful girls, but the boys may have to revise their playbook when Shawn falls for Carly (Sarah Roemer), the head cheerleader who sees right through the guys' scheme.

Director: Will Gluck
Producer: Matthew Gross, Peter Jaysen, Charles Weinstock
Screenwriter: Will Gluck
Distributor: Screen Gems, Sony
Production Co: Screen Gems, Weinstock Productions, Moving Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Crude Content|Partial Nudity|Sexual Content|Teen Partying)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 20, 2009, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 24, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $17.2M
Runtime: 1h 29m

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