Fired Up! Review

By: Robert Acosta

Plot: The two most popular guys in their high school decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp, not for the cheerleading but for the girls.

Review: I can honestly say, going into these movies I always expect crap. A couple of laughs here and there, maybe one memorable moment but nothing too spectacular. Now, over a year later since its release, it's one of my favorite comedy movies to watch.

The beginning of the movie gives the viewers a good idea of the lives the main characters Nick(Eric Christian Olsen) and Shawn(Nicholas D'Agosto) live. They hang out with beautiful girls, they're the stars of their football team and overall they're the two most popular guys in their high school.

They've gone through all the girls in their high school and are looking for new girls to prey on. They over hear that the cheerleading squad are going to a cheer camp that includes 300 girls. So of course, Nick and Shawn scheme and find a way to get on the cheer squad and go to the cheer camp. And away the story goes!

Eric Christian Olsen as Nick gives a lot of laughs along with John Michael Higgins as one of the coaches. It took me a while to realize this but Higgins is one hilarious guy. In Fired Up he offers up a lot of laughs and I realize in almost everything he's in, other movies like The Break Up, Yes Man and directTV commercials, he's hilarious. All the other characters compliment these two most of the time, pretty well I might add.

There are times in comedy movies where jokes are just too childish or are basically not funny. They can be real hit or miss in certain comedies. Actually very few comedies have been able to pull off most, if not all, jokes being genuinely funny. Fired Up was one of those comedies. Can the jokes seem a bit retarded or stupid? sure. But remember, all these things, comedy, action, horror, are all based on opinion. Just because I laugh at something doesn't mean someone else is going to laugh at it, nor do I expect you too.

Overall, Fired Up was a great time at the movies, I laughed a lot, nearly cried a couple times of laughter. This is exactly the feeling that should be given during comedy movies.

Rating: 4 Out of 5