| | | 2 Guys. 300 Girls. You Do the Math.
Features: DVD, Rated PG13, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, English, Subtitled, French, Dubbed & Subtitled
In this laugh-out-loud comedy, Ford High's star football players Shawn Colfax and Nick Brady scheme to ditch football camp so they can spend the summer surrounded by beautiful girls -- at cheer camp. The guys are having the time of their lives as they use their new reputation as "sensitive guys" to talk the hotties into skinny dipping, cheering naked, and hooking up. But when Shawn falls for the gorgeous head cheerleader who's suspicious of their motives, the players must change their game to prove Shawn's intentions before the thrilling cheer competition finals.
"...[the script] is a riot of tongue-twisting ironic sleaze -- it sounds like the first (and last) collaboration between Diablo Cody and Artie Lange." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"...[D'Agosto and Olsen] make a hilarious pair; If you're under the age of 25 you'll like it." Patrick Parker, Premiere
Editor's Note
In this comedy, Eric Christian Olsen (NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE) and Nicholas D'Agosto (HEROES) star as unmotivated football stars who switch to cheerleading when they realize they can go to camp with 300 girls. FIRED UP also stars Sarah Roemer (DISTRUBIA), Annalynne McCord (90210), and the always hilarious John Michael Higgins (FRED CLAUS).
| Features | Fired Up! Press Junket - Hour 12 | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: French Dolby Digital Stereo | | Dubbed: French | | Featurettes: Double Duty & This Is Not A Cheerleading Movie - The Making Of Fired Up! | | Gag Reel | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Fired Up! - DVD Review By: Blake French - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/29/2009 2:39 PM | |
From the advertisements, Fired Up! looks like the movie that finally indulges in what every young man fantasizes about: Crashing cheerleading camp to get laid. On the poster, the tagline reads: "Two guys. 300 girls. You do the math." With those numbers, lots of guys would look past those annoying cheers and be the first in line at the movie theater with their dates. Unfortunately, Fired Up! isn't the movie it says it is. It's rated PG-13, and beyond a few shots of young ladies in cheer outfits, there's nothing remotely objectionable here. That would be fine if it were a family film. But it's being marketed as a sexy teen comedy....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 10/27/2009 |
| Running Time: 90 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2009 | | Catalog ID: 27286 | | UPC: 00043396272866 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"FIRED UP! offers certifiably silly humor surrounding the antics of a pair of high school football jocks who go to cheerleading camp....Nicholas D'Agosto is likeable as Shawn..." 02/20/2009Premiere
"Nicholas D'Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen make a hilarious pair; If you're under the age of 25 you'll like it." 02/19/2009 Entertainment Weekly
"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." 02/27/2009 ReelViews 5 of 10
They might as well have called this Cheer Movie. About the only thing to differentiate this dud of a comedy from the likes of Date Movie, Epic Movie, and Disaster Movie is the absence of the names Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg on the credits. Instead, the director is a first-timer named Will Gluck. Based on the evidence here, one hopes he will do what Seltzer and Friedberg didn't and stop making movies...Regardless of how low your expectations are regarding Fired Up!, it will still surprise you, and not in a good way. I don't approach a movie like this with a greater hope than that it will make me laugh a few times. Even with the bar set so low, Fired Up! can't deliver. This a morass of failed humor. Every joke is tired, obvious, and telegraphed. It's like going to a family reunion and hearing Uncle Bob tell the same gags he has told at every family reunion for the past twenty years. At one point, they might have been worth a chuckle or two but now you'll do just about anything, including actions that would be considered illegal in all 50 states, to get him to shut up...I can think of no reason why anyone would want to see Fired Up! and the movie-going public seems to agree with that assessment - I was one of only three people in the theater where it was showing. The film relies on the cliched outtakes-during-the-closing-credits approach to generate a few cheap, late laughs. But even these aren't funny. How bad does a movie have to be that even the bloopers are duds? About halfway through the proceedings, the temptation to slip into the next-door theater arose - until I remembered that the movie playing there was Confessions of a Shopaholic. At that moment, I began to contemplate the similarities between film critics and garbage men. Both deal with a lot of crap, but the trash collectors get better pay. - James Berardinelli
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