Fired Up (Unrated Version)
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Movie Reviews of Fired Up (Unrated Version)
Movie Review: Fun movie give it a chance.
Summary: 5 Stars
Believe me when I saw the commercials for this film I was like "pass", but when it came out on dvd i saw it on netflix and was surprise how good and funny it was and it didn't look like one of those stupid low budget movies,fired up is simple two guys in high school go to cheerleading camp to hook up with as many girls as possible in what results to lots of jokes and crazy cheerleading and thats about it believe this is still a good movie to watch,you'll have fun with it till the very end.Movie Review: New favorite comedy
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband and I just love this movie and actually have watched it several times. I'm 40 and he's 42 and yet we thoroughly enjoy the high school cheerleading comedy. We love it even more than Road Trip, Harold and Kumar, Bring It On and the likes. We also enjoy the soundtrack immensely. The lead characters have such a good rapport and are quite hilarious. What a great way to forget life and laugh for a while.Movie Review: very witty and well directed ..
Summary: 5 Stars
are you kidding .. it is what you think it would be .. sophmoric ..and that is what i paid for .. not too bad .. not too good ...Movie Review: Cheerleader heaven!
Summary: 4 Stars
2 playboy football players decide that they will go to cheerleader camp to have what Maverick in Top Gun (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition) would call a "target rich environment" from which to score with young babes with hot bodies. Plus, they'd really like to skip out on 2-a-day-practices at football camp. So, they "join" the all-female cheerleading squad from their school in order to punch their ticket to the cheerleader camp.
Unfortunately (not to mention predictably), the head cheerleader (Sarah Roemer) guesses their true motivations for wanting to go to cheerleader camp, and she's very distrustful of them. Roemer is not the hottest babe in the flick, but she does have a good on-screen charisma.
The cheerleading scenes in the movie were pretty impressive, especially as they turned actors into cheerleaders, rather than the other-way-around. While they used some stunt personnel from time-to-time, much of the cheerleading is pretty authentic. Eric Christian Olsen & Nicholas D'Agosto are both athletic enough to pull of their roles without coming across as fakers.
There are a few holes in the plot. First off, this is supposed to be a film about high school kids, but the whole flick had more of a college-aged feel to it. For starters, at the beginning of the movie they have a football intra-squad scrimmage. I don't know of any HS in the country that holds Spring football practices! That is 100% a college thing. If they had simply said that they went to a college instead of a HS it would've been far more believable.
The timeline is also off, even if we are to overlook the HS Spring football issue. Ostensibly within a matter of weeks after the scrimmage is the cheerleader camp, and it's supposed to be @ the same time as football camp. Having a cheerleader camp during the middle of the summer is plausible, but having a (team) football camp during the summer is not. Football camp (and I'm not talking about college mini-camps for recruits here) starts in August. Hence, that did not add up.
Of course, this is probably too much nit-picking for a movie that's meant to just plain be fun. On the upside, this was the funniest & funnest party movie I've seen in quite some time. It had 2 of the main characteristics I look for in party movies; it was humorous & it left me with a good feeling when the closing credits started to roll. If it had scored higher on the skin-o-meter (sadly, we only see one cheerleader topless) it would have been a perfect 5 stars! In any case, if you're anything like me & you believe utopia = a universe ruled by omnipotent cheerleaders, then this flick is for YOU!
Movie Review: Corny & predictable, but still funny
Summary: 4 Stars
I think the best way to see this film is to know they had fun making it, producing it and to get something out of it like the commentary says: "...they will be studying this for years to come at USC film school..."
Let's get all of the hate mail out of the way. Yes - the leads are all over 30, yes - it is another dang cheer film, yes - it has nothing new to add to the comedy plate this year, and so on. But I still got some good laughs out of it and plenty of fit people to look at. The main thing that struck me was the chemistry between the two main actors, they were actually believable and funny. The supporting cast had some great moments, especially John Michael Higgins as Coach Keith and Philip Baker Hall as Coach Byrnes - they both showed awesome chops in doing their corny roles.
The film quality was excellent, the sound was a fun 5.1 and the impressive long-takes actually looked good. Whether you love or hate this film, that one take when the crew arrives at camp showcasing the 178 ladies on the steps - was impressive. The unrated is only a few seconds longer and contains some nice (and natural) upper body nudity in the night swimming sequence.
The special features give this 2.5 star film the last 1.5. There is a 15 minute making-of, a 7 minute clip on the "stunting" involved, and 8 minutes of unrated outtakes - which if anything are hilarious because of those damn peacocks. The quick press junket shows Eric Olsen in meltdown mode and the commentary with the director and two leads is worth it. Even if to hear little tidbits on how the main cast got each other sick from the kissing scenes or how everything was actually filmed in LA and not in Hinsdale.
Plenty of people hate this film, but I fell into the category of liking it and laughing. I suppose it will be mandatory for the cheer fans out there, but this will actually keep the guys interested also.