My Week In Movies - Ah, Cheerleaders!

It figures I finally start doing "My Week in Movies" and then I only see one movie in the second week but what a film it was!



Fired Up! (2009) Bob howdy, I love movies about cheerleaders! They are almost always silly and the short skirts don't hurt either. Fired Up! is what they call a "high concept" picture. Two high school football players get the wacky idea to skip football camp and spend two weeks at cheerleader camp with 300 girls. They go from scoring on the field...to scoring with the girls! Get it!? Yes, the boys are only at cheerleader camp to get close with the girls and hook up with them. Most people going to see this movie are probably expecting a raunchy sex romp a la' American Pie, but Fired Up! is actually pretty tame in the steam department. The boys talk about hooking up with girls and all we ever see is some making out. There's very little sex talk and just about no nudity...ok, there's a couple of male butts!


When you're doing a picture like this, ya gotta have laughs. As far as storylines go, we've seen all this a million times. The boys trick the girls to get into cheerleader camp, then they find out they are really part of the team and they want to help the girls win the big cheerleading competition at the end. Fired Up! sets itself apart from the recent crowd with a very script. The idea of guys trying to land chicks at a cheerleader camp is not the joke here. Nor are there a bunch of wacky practical jokes here that are supposed to make us laugh. There's a good script with lots of funny one liners and odd characters that add more laughter to the proceedings. I found myself laughing out loud and hard at several occasions. When you go to see a movie like this, you're not expecting Shakespeare but you should be expecting to laugh. If you allow yourself to be won over, Fired Up! delivers. You could say it will cheer you up. Cheer...get it!?