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Fired Up!

Cert: 12A

Description: Best friends Shawn and Nick are players on the American football team but neither lad fancies the prospect of spending summer at a training camp devoid of the female of the species. So they decide to attend cheerleading camp instead, convinced that it is a fast track to action with the poorly choreographed lovelies, led by captain Carly.

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Dir: Will Gluck.

Cast: Molly Sims, Nicholas D'Agosto, Danneel Harris, Sarah Roemer, David Walton, Eric Christian Olsen

Country: US.

Year: 2009.

Duration: 89mins

No prizes for wit and originality in Fired Up

Fired Up: stars Nicholas D'Agosto and Sarah Roemer

By Derek Malcolm
10 Jul 2009

Shawn (Nicholas D�Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) are high-school jokers who join an all-girl cheerleading team in this mainstream comedy � as vapid an exercise as any to have emerged from Hollywood this year.

There is a moral of sorts (seduction is a boorish exercise) and an attempt to paint the gay blades with a jokey lack of rancour.

But, anonymously directed by Will Gluck, this is not made for anyone with more than a sprinkling of intelligence.