Review of Fired Up! (2009) by Rebecca L — 16 Aug 2010

Pardon this reviewer for paraphrasing, but Larry Gelbart - the legendary creator of TV?s M*A*S*H and writer/director of the film Tootsie ? described modern sitcoms in a way that sums up the experience of watching Fired Up! He said that the humor of the consensus of these programs had become stale because young television writers recycled from classic sitcoms. The writers of the classic sitcoms, however, were weaned on books, theater, and other mediums besides their own. Fired Up! feels like much the same?it is not entirely unfunny but feels like such a pre-packaged rehash of older wittier flicks that there is no way that this review could throw it a pass. When American Pie hit the film scene, us Reviewers lamented the long-gone days of Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the entire canon of John Hughes. Now, however, we would probably kill for a slice of that very same Pie!

In this PG-13-rated teen comedy, the two most popular guys in high school (D?Agosto, Olsen) play hooky from a football clinic to join the cheerleaders at Cheer Camp and get laid.

Moviegoers have seen it before?-many times and to a more entertaining degree. The best that can be said is that this recycled comedy knows its place in the zeitgeist and at least winks at the audience as each tired joke is delivered. In the movie, the campers are made to watch cheerleading flick Bring it On?and, to the disgust of the two principal horny stowaways, their fellow campers know every damn word.

Bottom line: Chucked Up.