IT’S NOW ON DVD – FIRED UP [UNRATED]

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Nick [Eric Christian Olsen] and Shawn [Nicholas D’Agosto] are two guys in high school on the football team and like to get with every girl they can. Football camp is coming up and they are not looking forward to it as it means two weeks in the middle of nowhere with nothing but twenty other sweating guys. So they get the brilliant idea that they will join the cheerleading squad and go the cheer camp where it will be nothing but women 24/7 where they can get all the ladies from all the other schools that they’ve never even heard of before.

So here is a through and through pushing the PG-13 rated spoof on the cheerleader movie genre. Since I saw the UNRATED version of this film it had an extra pair of tits and a lot more sexual innuendos and shits and fucks but I can see this being cut down to a PG-13 version without a problem. One thing this movie did was it played perfectly to spoof this high school genre and I actually found myself liking it. This is a movie that feels like a dirtier version of what you might find on The Disney Channel. It’s as if they took a Disney movie and inserted these two characters, Nick and Shawn, that do nothing but talk about sex and chase women.  This movie is a Harold and Kumar movie where they go to cheerleading camp.

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The movie starts out, as I’ve said, with these guys intending to screw everything in sight. However, as the film moves on each of them find the women that they want. Shawn falls for the cheerleading captain, Carly [Sarah Roemer], and Nick becomes infatuated with Diora [Molly Sims] who plays the wife to the camp organizer. Here is where the film seriously weakens since as soon as this enters the plot the film becomes a complete formula movie and more like Bring It On than we ever wanted it to be.

The movie plays on so many jokes about cheerleaders. For example the fact that they LOVE to cheer and will cheer anything. We have to endure a trip where the entire trip is “We’re <insert action here>” (X3). It is annoying as hell, but it’s funny because of the final punch line where they reach the camp and Nick and Shawn think they’ve gone to heaven and say, “no I know we didn’t die because we would’ve heard ‘We’re crashing ohh we’re crashing’”. Another great scene in this movie was when the entire camp is being addressed by the Coach Keith [John Michael Higgins], who is hilarious, and he talks about how prohibidado a certain move is to attempt, then he says ‘go ahead try and say it’ and then almost kills himself in a fit after hearing them try to say it. I was in stitches.

Now I know this movie can easily be misunderstood and most people will not get the joke and think that it isn’t making fun of cheerleading movies but rather trying to be a cheerleading movie and if you think that way you’re wrong. This movie is worth a rental and watching at least once.

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IMDB says 5.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes says 27%

I say 6.5/10

Andrew Robinson

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