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  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 02/20/2009
  • Running Time: 90 mins
  • Director: Will Gluck
  • Cast: Sarah Roemer, Danneel Harris, Molly Sims, Eric Christian Olsen, AnnaLynne McCord, Nicholas D'Agosto, John Michael Higgins, Philip Baker Hall, Hayley Marie Norman, Adhir Kalyan
  • Producer: Matthew Gross
  • Writer: Freedom Jones
  • Distributor: Sony/Screen Gems
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Fired Up

Getting high and mighty on teen-sex comedies is a sucker�s game, but it�s worth noting how particularly abhorrent a movie like Fired Up is. 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. Bored of banging every last chick in school, horny football studs Shawn (Nicholas D�Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) ditch their team for a couple weeks of cheer camp, where they will be the only straight dudes in a sea of 600 tits, er . . . 300 cheerleaders. They�re basically the same insipid conquistador, except Nick is the more officious schemer, and Shawn is the science whiz who helps all the (brainless) girls with their homework. Learning a few cheers, but never punished for their piggish insolence (the third-act inspirational speech, literally: �Be a cocky asshole�), Nick eventually wins over an older coach (Molly Sims) with his secret poetry, and Shawn falls in love with squad leader Carly (Sarah Roemer) because she�s the only girl who didn�t want to whore around on first sight. We�re light years away from Animal House, sure, but who ever thought we would long for the richer, funnier dignity of American Pie? — Aaron Hillis

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