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  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • Screen Gems
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • Screen Gems
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary Shawn and Nick are top scorers on the Ford High School football team…both on and off the field. When they hatch a scheme to trade their footballs for pom poms and join the school’s most beautiful girls at cheer camp, the new team members actually give the girls’ historically awful cheer squad a chance at success. And when Shawn falls for...

Directed By: Will Gluck

Written By: Will Gluck

  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • Screen Gems
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • Screen Gems
  • 1 h 30 m

Fired Up!

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
31
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 21 User Ratings
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Summary Shawn and Nick are top scorers on the Ford High School football team…both on and off the field. When they hatch a scheme to trade their footballs for pom poms and join the school’s most beautiful girls at cheer camp, the new team members actually give the girls’ historically awful cheer squad a chance at success. And when Shawn falls for...

Directed By: Will Gluck

Written By: Will Gluck

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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11% Positive
2 Reviews
39% Mixed
7 Reviews
50% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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11% Positive
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39% Mixed
7 Reviews
50% Negative
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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.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
50
The movie has a sharper and more acerbic screenplay than you normally find in bargain-basement, D-list teen comedies.
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Mixed or Average Based on 21 User Ratings
5.3
33% Positive
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Mixed or Average Based on 21 User Ratings
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33% Positive
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48% Mixed
10 Ratings
19% Negative
4 Ratings

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50
Passable in its efficiency, Fired Up! is less offensive than it might have been while also managing to be staggeringly uninspired.
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38
Fired Up feels like everybody's first time doing anything - writing, acting, directing, cheerleading.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
25
Regardless of how low your expectations are regarding Fired Up!, it will still surprise you, and not in a good way.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
20
Tries waaay too hard, just like its motormouth jock-snark heroes.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
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.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Screen Gems, Moving Pictures, DPI, Gross Entertainment, Weinstock Productions
Release Date Feb 20, 2009
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating TV-14
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Tagline 2 Guys. 300 Girls. You Do the Math.
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Awards

California on Location Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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