Movie Review

Fired Up! (2009)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Release Date: Feb 20, 2009; Rated: PG-13; Length: 89 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Nicholas D'Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen

 Rah Rah Rah!: Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D\'Agosto show some school spirit Fired Up
Image credit: Suzanne Tenner
Rah Rah Rah!: Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto show some school spirit

Two piggish high school football jocks pack themselves off to cheerleader camp, where they cut a swath through the hardbodied gymnastic lovelies. 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. Olsen, who's like a blond Jim Morrison, and D'Agosto, as scampish as he was glum 
in Rocket Science, establish an interplay that's halfway amusing and terminally smug. B–

Originally posted Feb 18, 2009 Published in issue #1036 Feb 27, 2009 Order article reprints
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