Fired Up Critic Reviews
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The teensploitation premise is like something a porn filmmaker from the '70s might have come up with. But Fired Up! has one added quirk: The script, credited to Freedom Jones, is a riot of tongue-twisting ironic sleaze -- it sounds like the first (and last) collaboration between Diablo Cody and Artie Lange.Read the full review
Passable in its efficiency, Fired Up! is less offensive than it might have been while also managing to be staggeringly uninspired.Read the full review
Though not nearly as raucously funny as the leads in "Wedding Crashers," Nick and Shawn resemble junior versions of the one-track-minded womanizers played by Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.Read the full review
A kind of dumb but also kind of smart-about-being-dumb comedy.Read the full review
Fired Up feels like everybody's first time doing anything - writing, acting, directing, cheerleading.Read the full review
It's like being trapped for an hour-and-a-half in a pound full of yappy puppies.Read the full review
Here is a movie that will do for cheerleading what "Friday the 13th" did for summer camp.Read the full review
Regardless of how low your expectations are regarding Fired Up!, it will still surprise you, and not in a good way.Read the full review
Will Gluck directs with frantic, go-for-broke pacing, which is what you do when your reserves of wit are bankrupt.Read the full review
On the off chance that anyone out there would want to spend time with guys like this—and would appreciate a bonus plug for Staples' recycled paper products, too--this movie has been made just for them.Read the full review
