Fired Up: Critic Reviews

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.

At once funnier than it should be and more witless than it should have been.

Five, six, seven, eight; Fired Up is not so great.

As long as you don't expect too much, Fired Up!'s aim is true enough.

An arduous cheerleader comedy geared toward those too green to know that cheerleader comedies went out long before the last pompom shake of Bring It On.

The movie has no comic or hormonal sensibility of its own -- every feeling in Fired Up! feels borrowed from another comedy, television show, or pop song.

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 for the rest of their lives.

Spending time with these guys is the longest 89 minutes ever.

Oh, is this movie bad.

I didn't half-mind Fired Up, but half a mind is more than it deserves. It's Wedding Crashers with high school seniors and bras and panties, as opposed to Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson and copious toplessness.

Nobody's going to get all that fired up about Fired Up, the latest in what seems like a million-mile-long line of purposely dumb adolescent sex comedies. But as genre entries go, this one's passable fun.

The problem with Fired Up is that it doesn't follow a simple rule of the genre: If you're going to make a raunchy teen sex comedy, go all the way.

If the sorry state of Hollywood comedy could use a boost from a pep squad, it's let down by the droopy Fired Up!

If this movie were a teenager, you'd put it on Ritalin right away.

It may be as dumb as you'd expect from this team, but Fired Up is still the best 'dumb cheerleader' comedy since Bring It On.

Sloppy but moderately amusing.

A teen comedy that views sex as an all-you-can-gorge buffet.

An over-cranked teen comedy that only travels so far on its one-gag premise.

More tolerable than it ought to be.

Passable in its efficiency, Fired Up! is less offensive than it might have been while also managing to be staggeringly uninspired.