I recently saw the movie Fired Up and was less than impressed. I couldn’t believe that I had just spent ten dollars to see this dull movie. Fired Up was about star football players, Sean and Nick, who were trying to get with as many girls as possible by ditching dreaded football camp and attending cheerleading camp. Along the way, Shawn begins to actually enjoy cheerleading and falls in love with the captain, Carly. I disliked the movie Fired Up because it was inaccurate, unoriginal, and crude. 

     Fired up was very inaccurate and stereotypical in the way that it portrayed cheerleaders. The movie depicted cheerleaders as stupid, untalented, and desperate. There were countless jokes about cheerleaders and their dumb ways. I’m not saying that there aren’t any cheerleaders who are dumb, because that isn’t the case, but this movie makes it seem as though all cheerleaders are extremely unintelligent. From a cheerleader’s point of view, Fired Up starred untalented cheerleaders. There were a few stand-out girls, who were very good, but, besides that, everyone else performed basic skills, which makes cheerleading seem as though no athleticism is required. The cheerleaders are portrayed as extremely desperate, because even though they know that Shawn and Nick are not there because they love cheerleading, rather they love girls, they act as though they don’t have a clue. Each cheerleader that the boys hit on feels as though she is the only one that they are after, even though she knows differently. The ways that Fired Up described cheerleaders were very stereotypical. 

      The entire movie lacked originality. The plot itself was nothing out of the ordinary and very predictable. If you've seen Wedding Crashers, then you've seen this in terms of story structure and plot. It felt like the less-raunchy, PG-13 cousin of that film. Even the two leads, played by Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto, have a chemistry and friendship in the film similar to the characters played by Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers. No aspects of Fired Up were memorable, and I thought of it as a “wanna-be” Bring it On. Fired Up was very unoriginal, contributing to my disliking it. 

      Besides being inaccurate and unoriginal, Fired Up was also somewhat vulgar. I recommend this movie for guys, rather than girls, for I think the jokes would be more humorous to guys. The comedy is very raunchy, which I did not enjoy. I don’t know if it was scripted, or if it just the actors, but Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto were extremely annoying and immature throughout the movie, and they really got on my nerves. The humor used in Fired Up was very foul and I did not enjoy it. 

      I’ll admit that I did laugh once or twice while watching Fired Up, but that does not make up for the rest of the unsatisfying movie. I do not suggest that anyone see this movie, for the only thing it will get them fired up about is the ten dollars that they have just wasted seeing it. Fired Up was wrong, clichéd, and rude.
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