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Rah Rah Rah!: Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto show some school spirit
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Release Date: Feb 20, 2009; Rated: PG-13; Length: 89 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Nicholas D'Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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–


Posted Feb 18, 2009
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