FIRED UP
Headline: ** Teen Sex Comedy **
Title: FIRED UP
Quality: * * * Acceptability: -4
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VV
Sex: SS
Nudity: NN
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: February 20, 2009
TIME: 96 minutes
STARRING: Nicholas D'Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer, Molly Sims, Danneel Harris, and David Walton
DIRECTOR: Will Gluck
PRODUCERS: Matthew Gross, Peter Jaysen and Charles Weinstock
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Will Gluck, Paddy Cullen, Marcy Gross, and Ann Weston
WRITER: Freedom Jones
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Entertainment
CONTENT: (PaPaPa, HoHo, B, C, LLL, VV, SS, NN, MMM) Very strong hedonistic, pagan worldview with strong homosexual elements, though one cheerleading squad prays before competition, asking God to help them and "to fix the economy"; 63 obscenities, 25 chants of the abbreviations for "Fired Up" which is to be understood as an obscenity, song with six obscenities, graphic name calling, scatological comments, and 11 profanities; strong violence includes teenager in fistfight, teenagers fall in cheerleading practice, comedic scene of teen falling from balcony and teenager falling in pool unconscious; constant discussion of sex by teenagers, dozens of implied sexual relations among teenagers, implied adultery between underage teenager and female coach, much kissing and heavy petting by teenagers, including lesbian teenagers kissing, lesbian petting, homosexual grabs buttocks of male character, suggested homosexual actions by male coach when hugging male teenager, cheerleading poses which are to represent both homosexual and heterosexual sex acts; rear male nudity, upper male nudity, male characters fully nude but strategically placed pom poms cover private parts, dozens of teenage girls in short shirts, low cut tops and bare midriffs, male and female teen characters strip to underwear and go swimming; teenage drinking and drunkenness; no smoking or illegal drugs; and, lying, deception, no respect for adults or adult coaches, adultery.
GENRE: Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults
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SUMMARY: FIRED UP! is the story of two high school football players who decide to skip football camp and join the cheerleading camp in order to meet girls and to have sexual relations with them. The movie's abhorrent message is that teenagers will have many sexual relations, both heterosexual and homosexual, and it has much implied sex and overt foul language.
IN BRIEF:
FIRED UP! is about two high school football players who skip football camp to join the cheerleading camp to meet girls and have sexual relations. At first, the plan works, and Nick and Shawn meet and have sexual relations with dozens of cheerleaders at the camp. However, Shawn falls for the squad leader from their own school while Nick tries to have sexual relations with the married female adult coach. In the end, the boys must patch things up with their fellow cheerleaders and help win the cheerleading competition.
This teenage sex comedy is well made but has a depraved, abhorrent center. The fact that the movie is so well made is the greatest danger. The movie assumes that teenagers will have multiple sex partners, both heterosexual and homosexual. To keep the PG-13 rating, the sex scenes are implied and not depicted. There's much foul language, but no "f" words. Instead of overt nudity, the nude scenes are cleverly staged with male characters having strategic pom poms. Media-wise viewers will understand this pagan movie for what it is and want to avoid it and keep their children from it.
