Fired Up!
February. 20,2009 PG-13Popular high schoolers and best friends Shawn and Nick decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.
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Memorable, crazy movie
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Blistering performances.
Review based solely on the trailer, so do feel free to discredit it, for now. I do intend to obtain this one, and will then come back, adding a more informed review, so watch this space!As a huge BRING IT ON fan (well, natch! I am RavenGlamDVDCollector after all, the hottest hound dog on pretty actresses tails, er, trails) I am of course instantly intrigued, no, mesmerized, by the sight of pretty girls jumping about. I'm also a devoted AnnaLynne McCord fan (yay, 90210!) and I have to see her in this, even if she is the bad girl - Panthers Out! Ooh cute! I'm just saying! - yet again, like in NIP/TUCK. But most promising of all is this young long-legged blonde beauty Sarah Roemer who plays Carly, I can see I'm just gonna be awed by that lovely creature!The general consensus among the reviewers seems to be that the script is another plus point adding to the movie's sparkle, and it sure sounds like an unsung winner to me! Hope to buy real soon!Update, 2016/09/13. Have since obtained the DVD, and watched the movie, and I loved it. Was gonna write a review called "We are girl-watching we we are girl-watching" when I was reminded by the IMDb computer that I've already submitted the above little offering.The movie doesn't disappoint, it is every bit as cute as the trailer promised it to be. So the two leads are old boys, well, I can see why they were chosen, they fit the bill in every other aspect. So who'd have been cast among the young bucks of Hollywood, and would they have been able to match these performances? I think not. Anyway, on to the pretty stuff: Sarah Roemer defies description in terms of beauty, she is so cute she is impossibly cute, and no words I can utter would do justice to just exactly how cute she is, like perfect! AnnaLynne McCord post NIP/TUCK, pre 90210 gives a mesmerizing display as the apparently darkly psychotic lead Panther chick (who SPOILER ALERT, SPOILER ALERT turns out to be all bark but no bite) and there is a host of other young actresses playing loopy characters that make this movie fun from start to finish. I highly recommend it to people looking for a rollicking laugh. Lots of subversive little jokes too, many of the characters are gayer than rabbits, and the straight men are caught out in zany compromising situations.By the way, it is a cheerleading movie, whatever is said, it takes a while to get to actual cheerleading routines apart from practicing sessions, but that Fountain of Troy maneuver is awesome! And several others! How humans can 'fly' like birds... I wince when they fall, how do they stage the accidental falls, huh?I collect glam movies, pretty actresses are my thing, dazzling starlets, and this one, it's as good as it gets! So if you just wanna watch top quality girls, this play is just the thing!
This is one of the more disappointing movies I've seen in my entire life. I don't know what's more offensive, the portrayal of gay and lesbian teens or the fact that they expect us to believe that a 30 year old Eric Christian Olsen and a 27 year old Nicholas D'Agosto are high school students. All this plus a poorly misplaced John Michael Higgins who is given absolutely nothing to work with. This movie is virtually plot less until the last 40 minutes and it's not even a good plot then. The ending is boring, anticlimactic and, in some aspects, downright insulting to the audience.The worst part is the message: there is none. There's no clear theme or lesson in this story. Every character ended pretty much the same way as they started with almost nothing to gain from the experience.On the bright side, I do have to congratulate the one million monkeys for successfully banging on one million typewriters for one million years to produce this textbook raunchy teen movie. You all have truly earned your one million bananas.
Giving the movie a 7 and the DVD a 9 for an 8 average. This is how you make a predictable teen comedy work - keep your foot on the gas at all times, even through the end credits. There's about 120 minutes worth of script packed in to 90 minutes here and most of that is carried well by the capable (if playing well beyond age) leading men. At least one repeat viewing is necessary.Most of the failings of the film are addressed openly in the DVD commentary, hence my higher rating. Everything from poor location scouting to keeping large nostrils tilted down gets discussed (and banana pants is the secret phrase). The biggest mistake brought up being the push to get a PG-13 rating for a movie almost exclusively about sex. Some of that works for laughs, though, as the substitute swear words are always more entertaining than their standard counterparts.In the end everyone wins and everyone is a better person. Did I mention it was predictable? But the jokes are funny and not overworked, and the women are beautiful. A great movie to have running in the background when you can't decide what to watch.
Here in Italy was not released on theaters but only played on satellite television, and i can't understand why, maybe because it doesn't feature big names;anyway it's just hilarious!!! Thus it might not be a big production it surely shows what good ideas, great lines and good actors can deliver. Not to mention the soundtrack, a compilation of song of all genres picked with the very right taste. Kudos to all the cast and crew, they did an amazing job; every time the satellite movie channel plays this movie i get stuck and i can't leave it till the end titles (guess i've seen it already 3 or 4 times...) WATCH IT!!! you will laugh your a.. off, guaranteed. Hope those young actors will have more roles in the future, they are very good.