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Fired Up (2009)

Director: Will Gluck

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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

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James said...

Posted on Feb 08 2010 16:21 A truly bourgeois film of the Obama era, sickening control issues on display as they are in Washington these days. Rock on socialists.

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Dan said...

Posted on Dec 30 2009 12:47 Awesome! I was looking for some political discourse with my review of a teen football/cheerleading flick.
I'm off to talk with my garbage man about string theory.

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sammy said...

Posted on Nov 30 2009 05:22 i can see you didn't really watch the movie considering the football camp was in El Paso TX not arazona.

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