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Comedy about two high school football stars who hatch a scheme to trade their footballs for pom-poms in order to hang out with the school's most beautiful girls at cheer camp. Cast:Nicholas D'Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer, Molly Sims, Danneel Harris, Philip Baker Hall, more castDirector:Will GluckRelease Date:February 20, 2009DVD Release:June 9, 2009From:Screen GemsRating:PG-13Length:1 hr 30 min
Fired Up! played to fair reviews. • Lou Lumenick wrote in the New York Post, "...an occasionally amusing, sometimes horrifying misogynistic, homophobic and half-heartedly satiric mash-up of 'American Pie,' 'Porky's' and 'Bring It On'..." • And Owen Gleiberman wrote in the Entertainment Weekly, "...like something a porn filmmaker from the '70s might have come up with.... a riot of tongue-twisting ironic sleaze..." More Reviews Below...
Leah Rozen, People: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Nicholas D'Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen play high school football stars who try cheerleading to nab babes. Surprisingly, this smart-aleck comedy grows on you."(See all of Leah Rozen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 31 words, 02/19/09
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD(cg) "...like something a porn filmmaker from the '70s might have come up with.... the script, credited to Freedom Jones, is a riot of tongue-twisting ironic sleaze..."(See all of Owen Gleiberman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 102 words, 02/20/09
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: MODERATE(cg) "...rude and crude... What's surprising, though, is that within the premise lies a streak of giddy humor that makes the whole endeavor more tolerable than it ought to be."(See all of Christy Lemire's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 515 words, 02/19/09
Claudia Puig, USA Today: MODERATE(cg) "...offers certifiably silly humor... You will laugh, though not uproariously and not often enough. You also will occasionally cringe..."(See all of Claudia Puig's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 456 words, 02/20/09
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (10 Reviews)
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: FAIR "...funnier than it should be and more witless than it should have been... a kind of dumb but also kind of smart-about-being-dumb comedy..."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 568 words, 02/20/09
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: POOR(cg) "Like a lost raunch comedy from the '80s... tries waaay too hard, just like its motormouth jock-snark heroes... preteen boys may love it, for the obvious reasons."(See all of Joe Neumaier's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 92 words, 02/20/09
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: POOR(cg) "Oh, is this movie bad.... Every conversation involves a combination of romantic misunderstandings, double entendres and flirtation that is just sad."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 595 words, 02/19/09
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...sturdy... tries to put its loutish behavior in ironic quotation marks, but being smart enough to know when you're being an idiot still doesn't make the behavior welcome."(See all of Mark Olsen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 346 words, 02/20/09
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: MODERATE(cg) "...an occasionally amusing, sometimes horrifying misogynistic, homophobic and half-heartedly satiric mash-up of 'American Pie,' 'Porky's' and 'Bring It On'..."(See all of Lou Lumenick's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 467 words, 02/20/09
Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...sweet... almost a throwback, lacking nudity, drug use and gag-worthy gags. That may not be the formula for a successful teen comedy, but it sure is refreshing."(See all of Rafer Guzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 290 words, 02/20/09
Kamal Al-solaylee, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE(cg) "...has a sharper and more acerbic screenplay than you normally find in bargain-basement, D-list teen comedies.... relatively sexist and slightly homophobic..."(See all of Kamal Al-solaylee's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 427 words, 02/20/09
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...abhorrent... Not content to be just another dumb high school flick, it's actually teaching young, virginal viewers to treat women like stupid, submissive slut-cattle..."(See all of Aaron Hillis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 220 words, 02/18/09
Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: WEAK(cg) "...better than expected, but since it's a high school sex comedy, that's not saying much.... one would expect a cheerleader movie to wow with actual cheerleading..."(See all of Radheyan Simonpillai's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 157 words, 02/19/09
KEY CITIES (7 Reviews)
Jan Stuart, Washington Post: POOR(cg) "...shackled by an oppressive penchant for snark and a glib tendency to reference older and infinitely better movies.... Will Gluck directs with frantic, go-for-broke pacing..."(See all of Jan Stuart's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 270 words, 02/20/09
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: WEAK(cg) "Mix in bad performances, a stupid story and actors practically old enough to be the parents of the characters they're playing and you get a pretty stupid movie."(See all of Bill Goodykoontz's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 458 words, 02/20/09
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: WEAK(cg) "...a movie with the generic arc and canned personalities of MTV's self-help reality ('I Want to Be a Cheerleader'). What it needs is a devilish director..."(See all of Wesley Morris's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 429 words, 02/20/09
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...has a number of surprises wrapped up in its calculated package of teen sex jokes, nubile young bodies and a throwaway script that pairs the two with a minimum of plot or pacing."(See all of Ted Fry's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 364 words, 02/20/09
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...more a collection of zingers, laugh-out-loud bits and punchy performances than a coherent movie.... still the best 'dumb cheerleader' comedy since 'Bring It On.' "(See all of Roger Moore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 532 words, 02/20/09
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...abhorrent... Not content to be just another dumb high school flick, it's actually teaching young, virginal viewers to treat women like stupid, submissive slut-cattle..."(See all of Aaron Hillis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 220 words, 02/18/09
Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD(cg) "...the verbal gymnastics of Freedom Jones's script almost measure up to the physical ones. Both are handled gamely by Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto..."(See all of Brett Michel's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 163 words, 02/26/09
Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: WEAK(cg) "...better than expected, but since it's a high school sex comedy, that's not saying much.... one would expect a cheerleader movie to wow with actual cheerleading..."(See all of Radheyan Simonpillai's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 157 words, 02/19/09
HIGHBROW PRESS (2 Reviews)
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: FAIR "...funnier than it should be and more witless than it should have been... a kind of dumb but also kind of smart-about-being-dumb comedy..."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 568 words, 02/20/09
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...sturdy... tries to put its loutish behavior in ironic quotation marks, but being smart enough to know when you're being an idiot still doesn't make the behavior welcome."(See all of Mark Olsen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 346 words, 02/20/09
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: WEAK "...has characters spouting the same self-satisfied, rapid-fire ramblings crammed with as many pop culture references they can fit in without coming up for air."(See all of Michael Rechtshaffen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 445 words, 02/12/09
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...sturdy... tries to put its loutish behavior in ironic quotation marks, but being smart enough to know when you're being an idiot still doesn't make the behavior welcome."(See all of Mark Olsen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 346 words, 02/20/09
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: FAIR "...funnier than it should be and more witless than it should have been... a kind of dumb but also kind of smart-about-being-dumb comedy..."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 568 words, 02/20/09
21.6 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Fired Up!'s reviews are separated by an average 21.6 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
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Coverage:Fired Up!'s reviews cover 54.3% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 8,790 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 338 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Reviews Broke 12.8 Hours Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Fired Up!'s reviews on average broke 12.8 hours before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Fired Up!'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
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