2009 · comedy · coming-of-age · sports
Fired Up!
Directed by Will Gluck1h 31m2009
Popular high schoolers and best friends Shawn and Nick decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.
Our read: Fired Up! (2009) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · coming-of-age · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
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“You want dumb best-buddy cheerleader-camp horniness played for easy laughs.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if raunchy teen jokes, cheer clichés, or bro-com cringe will kill the vibe.
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