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Fired Up!

Fired Up!

Comedy · 2009

Popular high schoolers and best friends Shawn and Nick decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.

Movie details

Fired Up!

“2 Guys. 300 Girls. You Do the Math.”

2009 Comedy 1h 31m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.1 / 10

47.3K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

25 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

31 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.1 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Popular high schoolers and best friends Shawn and Nick decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Will Gluck

Written by

Will Gluck

Nicholas D'Agosto

Nicholas D'Agosto

Shawn Colfax

Eric Christian Olsen

Eric Christian Olsen

Nick Brady

Sarah Roemer

Sarah Roemer

Carly

Molly Sims

Molly Sims

Diora

Danneel Ackles

Danneel Ackles

Bianca

David Walton

David Walton

Dr. Rick

Adhir Kalyan

Adhir Kalyan

Brewster

Court is in session

Put Fired Up! on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“It owes the canon nothing.”

The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.

The prosecution The Big-Idea Head

“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”

It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.