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Bookmark this pageFired Up (2009)
Director: Will Gluck
Movie review
From Time Out London
If today’s cheerleader – half porn star, half girl next door – distracts from the game, shouldn’t the cheerleader movie distract us from a lack of believable plot points and honest jokes? Puppyish chick magnet Shawn (Nicholas D’Agosto) and football captain Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) have pulling down to a science.
Then it occurs to them that joining cheerleaders for two weeks of pom-pom training sounds more fun than grunting in Arizona with other guys. Sure enough, cheerleading camp is a vision of lithe women in short shorts but conscience strikes; after much success in the sack, the boys find they enjoy cheering, plus Shawn pursues a sweet hometown girl. It turns out ‘Fired Up!’ isn’t a dirty movie, despite the thigh on display, and it sports a more brainless evil boyfriend to make our heroes likeable. But trashy values place this generic comedy decidedly in the Bush era.
Author: Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out London Issue 2029, July 9 - 15, 2009
Cast & crew
Director: Will Gluck
Cast: Nicholas D'Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer, Molly Sims, Danneel Harris, David Walton, Adhir Kalyan, AnnaLynne McCord, Philip Baker Hall, John Michael Higgins full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Rated: 12A
Duration: 90 mins
UK Release: Jul 10 2009
US Release: Feb 20 2009
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