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Fired Up

Fired Up is the name of a cheerleading camp that annually overtakes the dorms of an Illinois University campus for 3 weeks of pompom perfecting. The program is called Fired up instead of just Cheerleader Camp because it’s not as funny when they’re chanting C-C as opposed to cheering F-U in unison. If this level of comedy tickles your funny bone then you’ll get along fine with this film. Here two high school seniors Nick Brady (Eric Christian Olsen) and Shawn Colfax (Nicholas D'Agosto) are finding that being straight “A” students and the two top player players on the high school football team is still not landing them enough female attention. The thought of 300 nubiles in lettered uniforms attending this yearly workshop is an embarrassment of riches that Nick and Shawn find irresistible so they fraudulently join the rah-rah team with an eye on copious easy action despite protests from Carly (Sarah Roemer), the cheer captain who sees through their libido driven plot. This along with her being “pre-engaged” to a college boy would seem to make her unattainable but you know the sparks are going to fly sooner or later between her and one of our two shagmeisters. As a matter of fact there are a lot of things you know will happen in this predictable comedy. There’s sight gags with clumsy set ups and montages with high energy taught bodies just when the story starts to lag. Still, kudos’ to Juliette Goglia (the only cast member who looks like a teenager, because she is the only cast teenager) as Poppy, Shawn’s scheming, scene stealing sister and D'Agosto’s whose fired up delivery of inappropriate yet hysterical one liners makes the film bearable and will probably draw audiences back to pick up what they missed.

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