Fired Up! Dual Review

Are you a fan of cheerleader movies?

Donny: Is Michael Bay awesome?  Of course I like cheerleader movies.  What red blooded American boy doesn’t enjoy watching hot ladies jump up and down.  

Amy: No.  Although, I’d be a damn liar if I said back in freshman year of high school I wasn’t one of those girls standing in line to see Bring It On!

Did the trailer do a good job of getting you psyched up for the flick?

Amy: Actually yes, it certainly had me saying “This is not a cheerleading movie dot com!” Really, really fast for 5 minutes after seeing it. They effectively warned me of what to expect, mindless eye candy that will entertain me for a couple hours.

Donny: I thought the trailers was decent.  I didn’t love it, but I think it clued me into what the flick was going to be, a rip on cheerleader movies with as much PG-13 boobage the filmmakers could get away with throwing in.  I like to reserve judgement after watching trailers, because half the time a trailer will be sweet, but the movie turns out to be total crap.  With that said, I wasn’t really excited to see this flick.  

Do you read Maxim, and what do you think about their involvement in F.U.?

Donny: I don’t read Maxim, but I do look at the pretty pictures.  I was totally stoked that Maxim was involved with this picture.  Think about it, even if the flick turned out to suck giant Bavarian cream filled chocolate balls it would still be tolerable with the Maxim ladies in it.  

Amy: I’m not a subscriber, but if I’m at a friend’s house that has it, I’ll flip through it. It’s how I was introduced to the incredibly sexy Megan Fox (right before I saw Transformers), strengthened my girl crush on Jennifer Love Hewitt, and occasionally gives me a chuckle… the joke section I mean. I wasn’t dreading a bunch of hot girls bouncing around the screen for the entire movie.

What did you think of the flick?

Amy: Straight forward teen movie story-line. Two troublemakers devise a plan to trick coaches and a couple ditzy girls into believing they like cheering, so they can tag along to a cheerleading camp full of “fresh meat.” They find that when it’s time to bail they have fallen in love with the sport… The fact that two chauvinistic macho football players are so easily brought over to the “cheering side” is far fetched to say the least. Okay, yeah, it’s a movie, so let’s move on.

The feminist in me started to get wound up by the excess of female idiocy, but I quickly calmed down when a love interest Carly was intelligent and more difficultly duped. The implied secret lesbian in the team had some excellent moments, and it’s a joy seeing her take advantage of the obvious benefits of being on a cheer team.

With a bunch of awesome one-liners and situations that had me laughing out loud, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. 

Donny: Honestly, I didn’t really want to see this flick.  I wasn’t upset that I was checking it out so that I could review it for the site, but I didn’t expect anything other than lots of hot ladies jumping around.  Basically I figured I’d enjoy the scenery, but not the movie itself.  So I was pretty surprised when I found myself enjoying the flick, and even more-so when I realized that it was almost over and I was still having a good time.  

The story is pretty standard teen fare.  Shawn (Nicholas D’Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) are two popular football stars that finish each other’s sentences more than an obscenely loving married couple.  They decide to go to cheer camp instead of football camp, because they’ve already slept with all the girls at their school and cheer camp will provide them with an unlimited supply of fresh prospects.  Of course Shawn and Nick come to enjoy cheering, which leads to a conflict of interest.  How can they sleep with girls they actually like?

The two leads had good chemistry, the ladies are hot, the jokes were pretty funny.  If this flick would have been rated R and featured lots of naked girls (I like naked girls), I would have loved it, but the PG-13 rating watered it down a tad.  Movies like this don’t benefit from the PG-13 rating.  There were enough foul language and sexual innuendoes in the flick to make it a little harsh for even a 13 year old.  So why tease the younger audience?  Why not just make it an R rated flick, throw in some boobage, and kick the flick up a notch on the awesome chart?  Anyway, let me stop ranting about Hollywoods inability to judge who a picture’s audience really is and get back to talking about the flick.  

I left the theatre with more one-liners to throw at my friends than I have in a long time.  This flick is full of catchy dialogue and characters that are loads of fun.    Margo Harshman delivered the goods with her performance… I’m just saying.  Also, I think the two leads were good together.  Actually, they were so good together that I’m pretty sure that they are secretly in love with one another.  I think they spend all their time trying to get hot girls to sleep with them because they don’t want to admit the obvious.  That they are gay and in love.  Seriously, the flick was a fun time-waster that I enjoyed more that I expected.  So if you enjoy goofy comedies with lots of hot ladies that jump around a lot, then this is the flick for you.

Now that you’ve seen it are you eagerly awaiting a sequel?

Donny: If said sequel is rated R and contains a copious amount of naked hotties you can count me in.  Otherwise I think this flick is a one trick pony.  

Amy: Hell no. Please don’t deal out another American Pies’ band camp, or other straight to DVD piece … I’m just saying

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