Review based solely on the trailer, so do feel free to discredit it, for now. I do intend to obtain this one, and will then come back, adding a more informed review, so watch this space!As a huge BRING IT ON fan (well, natch! I am RavenGlamDVDCollector after all, the hottest hound dog on pretty actresses tails, er, trails) I am of course instantly intrigued, no, mesmerized, by the sight of pretty girls jumping about. I'm also a devoted AnnaLynne McCord fan (yay, 90210!) and I have to see her in this, even if she is the bad girl - Panthers Out! Ooh cute! I'm just saying! - yet again, like in NIP/TUCK. But most promising of all is this young long-legged blonde beauty Sarah Roemer who plays Carly, I can see I'm just gonna be awed by that lovely creature!The general consensus among the reviewers seems to be that the script is another plus point adding to the movie's sparkle, and it sure sounds like an unsung winner to me! Hope to buy real soon!Update, 2016/09/13. Have since obtained the DVD, and watched the movie, and I loved it. Was gonna write a review called "We are girl-watching we we are girl-watching" when I was reminded by the IMDb computer that I've already submitted the above little offering.The movie doesn't disappoint, it is every bit as cute as the trailer promised it to be. So the two leads are old boys, well, I can see why they were chosen, they fit the bill in every other aspect. So who'd have been cast among the young bucks of Hollywood, and would they have been able to match these performances? I think not. Anyway, on to the pretty stuff: Sarah Roemer defies description in terms of beauty, she is so cute she is impossibly cute, and no words I can utter would do justice to just exactly how cute she is, like perfect! AnnaLynne McCord post NIP/TUCK, pre 90210 gives a mesmerizing display as the apparently darkly psychotic lead Panther chick (who SPOILER ALERT, SPOILER ALERT turns out to be all bark but no bite) and there is a host of other young actresses playing loopy characters that make this movie fun from start to finish. I highly recommend it to people looking for a rollicking laugh. Lots of subversive little jokes too, many of the characters are gayer than rabbits, and the straight men are caught out in zany compromising situations.By the way, it is a cheerleading movie, whatever is said, it takes a while to get to actual cheerleading routines apart from practicing sessions, but that Fountain of Troy maneuver is awesome! And several others! How humans can 'fly' like birds... I wince when they fall, how do they stage the accidental falls, huh?I collect glam movies, pretty actresses are my thing, dazzling starlets, and this one, it's as good as it gets! So if you just wanna watch top quality girls, this play is just the thing!

Released to video in 2009, "Fired Up" is a teen dramedy about two popular high school football jocks (Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto) who decide to go to cheerleading camp in the summer instead of football camp in order to score loads of babes. Their plans go awry when one falls in love with the captain of the cheerleading squad of their school (Sarah Roemer) and they both find themselves sincerely wanting to help the squad win the camp competition.The purpose of a movie like this is to entertain and elicit laughs; the great ones avoid too much raunchiness, etc. and offer strong subtexts (like 1995's "Clueless" and 1982's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"). The good news is that "Fired Up" is surprisingly funny from beginning to end and it does have heartwarming elements. Despite being direct-to-video, it's obvious that a lot of thought and effort was put into the film. For it to work Olsen and D'Agosto have to work well together and they do. By the way, Olsen was 31 during filming and D'Agosto was 28, hardly high school age, and – while they do a good job of appearing high school age – their overall demeanor give 'em away. As for the females, Sarah is striking as Carly and there are quite a few curvaceous beauties, including the brunette cheerleading coach.I would easily give "Fired Up" a grade of 'A-' if not for some unnecessary coarseness, implied raunch (in other words, there aren't any overtly raunchy scenes) and way too many gay-oriented jokes. These aspects remove it from the realm of greatness, as far as I'm concerned.The movie runs 90 minutes and was shot in the Los Angeles area.GRADE: B

Honestly, this movie's promos and advertisements don't inspire very high expectations but I was pleasantly surprised about how much I honestly enjoyed this movie. I think the difference between this teen comedy and other more run of the mill teen comedies is the actual love and sincerity behind this one.The cast also brings the script to life with excellent chemistry, especially between the two mains and the main girl. If not for the good chemistry a lot of the comedy would have been lost in teen movie clichés. They all have great comedic timing and it really makes this movie. This is a serious 'don't knock it til you try it' movie.

In general, the juvenile comedy genre disappointed me very much in recent years, due to the crowd of unbearable pieces of crap straight-to-DVD (such as, for example, Cougar Club and Picture This), which almost extinguished my taste for this underrated genre.So, without being a great film, I liked Fired Up, because it does not fall on the easy scatological humor; and even though it relies on the old formula of "louts looking for sex", it uses a context and a development which are enough different in order to separate it from many cheap clones of American Pie which try to occupy the niche created by gems such as Clueless, Weird Science and Can't Hardly Wait.In Fired Up, the technical aspects are correct, but they do not have too much creativity; the performances are barely functional; and director Will Gluck drives the movie with a good rhythm, but he does not show too much vision (a few interesting transitions are not enough to bring a visual identity to the movie).Fortunately, the screenplay from the movie comes to the rescue by creating entertaining situations which on some way conciliate the message of equality and tolerance the movie proposes.Finally, the characters are interesting and their dialogs are well written.In summary, Fired Up may not be a highly memorable experience, but it kept me entertained and it made me laugh, and I think it deserves a recommendation because of that.