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Fired Up!
Metascore
31 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 18 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 18
  3. Negative: 9 out of 18
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    67
    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.
  2. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Patrick Parker
    63
    It's surprisingly funny for another weak "American Pie" rip-off; Nicholas D'Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen make a hilarious pair; If you're under the age of 25 you'll like it.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    50
    I didn't half-mind Fired Up, but half a mind is more than it deserves.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    If this movie were a teenager, you'd put it on Ritalin right away.
  5. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    50
    Though not nearly as raucously funny as the leads in "Wedding Crashers," Nick and Shawn resemble junior versions of the one-track-minded womanizers played by Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.
  6. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Kamal AL-Solaylee
    50
    The movie has a sharper and more acerbic screenplay than you normally find in bargain-basement, D-list teen comedies.
  7. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    50
    Passable in its efficiency, Fired Up! is less offensive than it might have been while also managing to be staggeringly uninspired.
  8. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    50
    A kind of dumb but also kind of smart-about-being-dumb comedy.
  9. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Josh Rosenblatt
    40
    If you loved "Wedding Crashers," then, for all intents and purposes, you've already seen Fired Up – because this new movie borrows from the 2005 Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson hit with such utter shamelessness, you have to wonder if royalty checks are already in the mail.
  10. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    38
    Fired Up feels like everybody's first time doing anything - writing, acting, directing, cheerleading.
  11. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Michael Rechtshaffen
    30
    It's like being trapped for an hour-and-a-half in a pound full of yappy puppies.
  12. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    25
    Here is a movie that will do for cheerleading what "Friday the 13th" did for summer camp.
  13. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Perry Seibert
    25
    Raunchy.
  14. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    25
    Regardless of how low your expectations are regarding Fired Up!, it will still surprise you, and not in a good way.
  15. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    20
    Tries waaay too hard, just like its motormouth jock-snark heroes.
  16. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Aaron Hillis
    10
    We're light years away from "Animal House," sure, but who ever thought we would long for the richer, funnier dignity of "American Pie?"
  17. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Jan Stuart
    10
    Will Gluck directs with frantic, go-for-broke pacing, which is what you do when your reserves of wit are bankrupt.
  18. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    0
    On the off chance that anyone out there would want to spend time with guys like this-and would appreciate a bonus plug for Staples' recycled paper products, too--this movie has been made just for them.
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User Score
5.9 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 30 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 3 out of 10
  1. KundK
    7
    Hyper-fast teen comedy made to make people laugh and not to be taken too seriously. The jokes come hard, fast and un-PC, but they are never mean-spirited; there are tons of obvious and obscure (visual and verbal) references for geeky viewers to parse and the whole thing is extremely self-referential and postmodern-y. Think less "American Pie" and "Bring It On" and more "Clueless" and "Popular" on hormonal overdrive. Well worth a watch, just like the director's follow-up "Easy A".… Full Review »
  2. JesseM.
    7
    Despite this films failings -- and as the above reviewers had rattled on about at great length, there are many -- the chemistry between the two leads had me laughing start to finish. Perhaps I went it to it with such low expectations, it had to be good. Who knows...… Full Review »
  3. TDKinDallas
    4
    A really bad movie, but I laughed a lot!
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