Fired Up 2009

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: I didn't half-mind Fired Up, but half a mind is more than it deserves. It's Wedding Crashers with high school seniors and bras and panties, as opposed to Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson and copious toplessness. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: At once funnier than it should be and more witless than it should have been. Read more

Ted Fry, Seattle Times: This is a silly little movie that can. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Like a grotesque hybrid between the straight-to-DVD American Pie and Bring It On sequels, Fired Up asks the audience to root for a skirt-chasing Seacrest-and-Dunkleman pair who operate like a hive-minded Van Wilder. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: The problem with Fired Up is that it doesn't follow a simple rule of the genre: If you're going to make a raunchy teen sex comedy, go all the way. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie has no comic or hormonal sensibility of its own -- every feeling in Fired Up! feels borrowed from another comedy, television show, or pop song. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Nobody's going to get all that fired up about Fired Up, the latest in what seems like a million-mile-long line of purposely dumb adolescent sex comedies. But as genre entries go, this one's passable fun. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The teensploitation premise is like something a porn filmmaker from the '70s might have come up with. But Fired Up! has one added quirk: The script, credited to Freedom Jones, is a riot of tongue-twisting ironic sleaze. Read more

Christine Champ, Film.com: All spunk and no spark make for a mediocre movie. Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: More tolerable than it ought to be. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Passable in its efficiency, Fired Up! is less offensive than it might have been while also managing to be staggeringly uninspired. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Bikini-clad babes and sniggering humor abound in the teen sex comedy Fired Up!, but so do some other things: namely a charming cast, glimmers of intelligence and a sweetly youthful spirit. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Excuse me, I hear someone at the gates. Must be the barbarians, here at last. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Spending time with these guys is the longest 89 minutes ever. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: If this movie were a teenager, you'd put it on Ritalin right away. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It may be as dumb as you'd expect from this team, but Fired Up is still the best 'dumb cheerleader' comedy since Bring It On. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: About the only thing to differentiate this dud of a comedy from the likes of Date Movie, Epic Movie, and Disaster Movie is the absence of the names Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg on the credits. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Oh, is this movie bad. Read more

Kamal Al-Solaylee, Globe and Mail: A teen comedy that views sex as an all-you-can-gorge buffet. Read more

Jason Anderson, Toronto Star: Sloppy but moderately amusing. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: As long as you don't expect too much, Fired Up!'s aim is true enough. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: If the sorry state of Hollywood comedy could use a boost from a pep squad, it's let down by the droopy Fired Up! Read more

Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: 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. Read more

Jan Stuart, Washington Post: An arduous cheerleader comedy geared toward those too green to know that cheerleader comedies went out long before the last pompom shake of Bring It On. Read more