...has an easy charm to the sunny escapades shown here; it’s rare for a sex comedy to treat the macho posturings of the boys with disrespect, and Will Gluck’s film actually has more respect for women that the genre normally allows....

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2024

Boasts a remarkable amount of clever and inventive sexual metaphors, and a few eccentric characters that mask the lackluster, stereotypical illustrations.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 28, 2020

It's hard to figure out, then, what went wrong.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

A markedly generic teen sex comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 6, 2020

All spunk and no spark make for a mediocre movie.

| Original Score: C | May 6, 2011

Seriously, an R-rating and this would have been a totally different, way better movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2011

It sounds like that the kind of thing that would have been right at home with the teen comedies of twenty years ago, or even the brief American Pie-ish revival. But compared to current stuff it's actually kind of quaint.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Mar 22, 2011

This is not made for anyone with more than a sprinkling of intelligence.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 10, 2009

A charmless, witless, lumbering mess. Almost nothing could redeem this lame comedy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Fired Up is big on stereotypes (hello, gay Indian guy), overstatement (if you didn't already realise, loud = funny) and borderline homophobia. To paraphrase Repo Man, the longer you watch this, the stupider you might become.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 10, 2009

A lamentably unfunny flick.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Five, six, seven, eight; Fired Up is not so great.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 10, 2009

This aggressively stupid comedy tries to have it both ways, advocating sexual probity while its cameras linger over acres of golden female thighs.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Fired Up is a desperate and vacuous attempt at a teen comedy that not only lacks laughs, but even the gross-out moments and shameless nudity used by other such genre offerings.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Clichéd execution, paper-thin characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Fired Up is cinema as abuse, and its chief victim is any paying audience. To have shelled out cash for this witless farrago of sub-Porky's japery and straight-to-bargain-bin acting would be the airborne spin that broke the cheerleader's back.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Surprisingly, first-time director Will Gluck takes this raunchy premise and twists it into a boobs-free romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Dross.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Most of the gags are blah, blah, blah rather than ra, ra, ra.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 10, 2009