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Fired Up

Written by The Cynic

Friday, 20 March 2009 00:32

Fired Up

Director:

Will Gluck
Writer:
Freedom Jones

Starring:

Sarah Roemer
Nicholas D'Agosto
Eric Christian Olsen
David Walton

Rating:

PG-13

Quotes:

You gotta risk it for the biscuit!
I wanna cut the blonde one... I'm just sayin...
Bottomless bread sticks only keep you at Olive Garden for so long.

When comedies fail to hit their mark, the result is something like "Fired Up". It is rare when just about every joke falls on deaf ears, this movie tries to be funny, but the jokes are immature, dull and offensive, when that fails they turn to vulgarity to try to be funny, this also fails. Shawn Colfax (Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick Brady (Eric Christian Olsen), the stars of the Gerald R. Ford High School football team, are dreading the prospect of another summer at football camp. After Nick hatches a scheme for the two to join their schools cheerleaders at cheer camp instead, they find themselves awash in a sea of gorgeous young women. They think that have are a sure thing, that getting the ladies will be so easy, and at first it is, until they start to fall in love with the girls they can't have. Shawn falls for Carly (Sarah Roemer), the beautiful head cheerleader who is very suspicious of their motives. Nick falls for the camp counselors wife, Diora (Molly Sims), and at first he can't understand while his one liners aren't working on her. Carly has a boyfriend, Dr. Rick (David Walton) who is so stuck on himself that his ego thinks it's pretty. The conflict between Dr. Rick, Shawn and Nick becomes palpable as the three bump heads on numerous occasions. The camp has a big cheer-leading competition at the end of the camp, but the boys don't plan on being around that long, they are only planning on being around the two weeks of football camp, this way they can go to a friends summer home and party the last couple weeks before the season starts. Of course we have the token gay cheerleader, Brewster (Adhir Kalyan), and he is the one who allows Dr. Rick into the guys cabin, where they find air plane tickets that the guys have decided not to use, they have both decided to stay and help the team win the competition. When this movie was written it feels like they wanted to go for the R rating but changed their mind halfway through, they use all sorts of jargon to describe sex and how the two main characters can get it. It almost becomes a let down when just about every other sentence feels like a bad pick-up line, riddled with sarcasm, innuendo and a hopeless tongue-in-cheek presentation. Diora is of course married to Coach Keith (John Michael Higgins) and the couple of scenes are somewhat funny but he plays against himself and it deadens the comedy he could have pulled off. The other cheerleaders, Sylvia (Margo Harshman), Angela (Hayley Marie Norman) and they play off each other rather well. The lesbian theme plays funny just about every time we see it, but does it portray reality or just Hollywood's reality. When the teams main competition starts to show their claws, they are of course called the Panthers. Shawn and Nick ask Shawn's sister Poppy (Juliette Goglia) to help them, she had already helped the boys get noticed by the teams cheerleader, so that they could make the team. The panthers are led by Gwyneth (AnnaLynne McCord) who has a distinct hatred for anyone who even tries to beat her team. When the girls are shown the airline tickets they tell Shawn and Nick to leave, the guys head back home to hang out with their teammates at the summer home, but they are distinctly unhappy there, they both wonder how the girls will do at the competition and decide that they are best suited helping them. They head back to camp and convince the girls to let them help the team, standard Hollywood cliche would fit in nice right here, but surprises do actually happen, the team does their routine, and it is a nice one, they do a forbidden move that they just miss completing, the team doesn't win but they do finish higher then they ever finished before. The plot is beyond predictable. There are no surprises here except for the teams placement in the main competition, also there is little or no interest in the main characters other than how stupid they can actually be nor is this movie the least bit suspenseful. This is a movie to be avoided at all costs. Unless your between the ages of twelve and eighteen, then this may seem funny to you.

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