A shameless celebration of female nubility, “Fired Up!” is a peppy teen sex comedy that draws on a perfectly pitched pop music score, a bevy of scantily clad cheerleaders, and the quick-fire camaraderie of its skirt-chasing buddies Shawn and Nick (played by Nicholas D’Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen).
The Illinois football-playing pals have a systematic approach to conquering the legion of high school hotties that surround them.
So it goes that the pair choose to forgo football camp in favor of catching fish-in-a-barrel by attending cheerleader camp where their school’s Tiger cheerleading team is outnumbered by pep rally girls from other competing national squads.
Shawn’s well connected little sister Poppy (played with spunk by Juliette Goglia) gives the boys a crash course in the skills of male cheer leading.
The the movie hits its stride of athletic fun under Coach Keith (played for laughs by John Michael Higgins) and his wife Diora (Molly Sims).
Nick sets his sites on seducing Diora while Shawn goes for a more traditional route pursuing the Tiger’s captain Carly (played by Sarah Roemer filling in Gwyneth Paltrow look-alike duties) in spite of her romantic involvement with a bratty frat boy.
There isn’t anything special here, but “Fired Up!” is still a lot more fun than the adult romantic comedies Hollywood has trotted out so far this year.
Rated PG-13. 89 mins.
