Cheerleading comedy Fired Up is a film that�s woefully short on anything to cheer about. Rather, it�s an uninspired and sexist experience that offers more groans than laughs.

Fired Up (12A)
*
Dir: Will Gluck
With: Nicholas D'Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer

Cheerleading comedy Fired Up is a film that's woefully short on anything to cheer about. Rather, it's an uninspired and sexist experience that offers more groans than laughs.

Nicholas D'Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen star as two high school sports stars and serial womanisers who give up their summer camp with the guys in favour of cheerleading camp with 300 girls. But what begins as a mission to bed as many babes as possible soon turns into a life-changing experience for both.

Will Gluck's film treads a painfully predictable path and is packed with gratuitous shots of scantily-clad women (and men) in various suggestive dance poses, but it lacks anything to endear itself to viewers.

The men are either gay or misogynistic, the women mostly pine for their male companions and the dance routines lack imagination. D'Agosto and Olsen even suck as a comedic double act.
(Reviewed by Rob Carnevale)