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Annette Kellerman is FIRED UP!
Hey everyone! It's Annette Kellerman here with my review of FIRED UP! I'm sure many of you are rolling your eyes right now thinking, "great, just what I needed...another cheerleading movie." Let me assure you that FIRED UP is like no other cheerleading movie you've seen before. It's a cheerleading sex comedy that harkens back to raunchy teenage movies of yore like The Swinging Cheerleaders or Porky's. One of the best parts of this sex comedy romp, though, is that the girls are just as much in on the joke as the fellas.
The story follows two horny high school football stars that decide to ditch torturous football camp in El Paso in lieu of the babe heaven of cheerleading camp. Though they love the glory of the gridiron, their true satisfaction is found in the ladies who flock to them, so why not just cut out the hard part and go straight for the kill? With the help of a little sister who teaches them the basics and helps them weasel their way onto their high school's squad, the guys find themselves surrounded by 300 scantily clad young ladies at "Fired Up" (or FU, wink wink) cheerleading camp in no time.
My favorite scene in the entire film is the fellas initial intro to the world of camp. When the guys step off their school bus, they are met with the perfectly choreographed warm up and stretching of hundreds of gorgeous gals. As former high school cheerleaders and pom girls ourselves, Yoko and I could not contain our laughter during this sequence as director Will Gluck perfectly captures the absurdity (and/or splendor, depending on your perspective) of girls using each other's bodies to put their limberness to the test. I bet a lot of people who have no experience in the "sport" of cheerleading will think this sexually charged type of warm up is pure misogynist bullshit, but its not! We really used to do ridiculous stretching rituals with each other on a daily basis without even a hint of innuendo...I digress....
The rest of the film follows the guys as they make (out) their way through a litany of campers who are all too willing to join in the fornicating fun given their limited options with their mostly gay male comrades. Aside from living the dream though, the guys help their notoriously bad squad gain some respect and become real contenders. Though the plot is pure formula complete with obligatory love story, the jokes and one-liners throughout are what really make FIRED UP stand apart from other films in this genre. I'm gonna get a lot of flack for saying it, but I haven't belly laughed this much at the theater since Tropic Thunder. Its chock full of crude, crass, yet witty humor that really caught me by surprise.
Lead actors Nicholas D'Agosto and Eric Christian Olson master the roles of high school casanovas while truly delivering great comedic performances. Supporting roles by John Micheal Higgins as the questionably exuberant camp leader, David Walton as a perfectly douchy bad guy boyfriend, and Juliette Goglia as the all-business little sister add just the right touches that catapult FIRED UP into a universe of its own.
Though the film is no life-changing experience, FIRED UP is a lot of fun and a tons of laughs. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Annette Kellerman
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I love Cheerleaders!
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Is Adhir Kalyan. That guy's a funny fuck, and he was a major scene stealer in Paul Blart Mall Cop.
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and that's that.
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....That I will never, ever see any portion of this film. And yes, I concur, women writing reviews is just silly. Also I only laughed during one scene in Tropic Thunder, and thats because I'm an adult who still finds retards funny. Yet I don't think it was a bad film at all. Strange.
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No titties no bush equates to a fucking dull pg13 cheerleader movie.
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...and more like a synopsis for the back of the DVD jewel case.
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Who are you again?
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everywhere online and scriptgirl.
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Both are plants.
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..because that's what this review reeks of. If you think Annette's being sincere then you're a dumbfuck.
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I did once.
And Id like my testicles back now, please.
also, this movie is crap and doesn't even need to be reviewed. Why are we sending Kellerman to see this terrible exploitative movie in the first place? Isn't this something more along the lines of Monki's Aint It Masturabatory column?
This only reaffirms my theory that Kellerman is either Harry or Father Geek. -
One thing a "journalist" should get right is spelling a name correctly... Side note: Wow, those are some old high school students!
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Is this the newest geek-for-hire come to replace all the old-school guys who are silently bailing every couple of months? Introduced with no fanfare so we can think she has always been here? Hmmm....something is amiss with aititcool...from the sales rumors about 6 months back to moriarty leaving to quint "cutting back"...it is all ending.
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FIRED UP WAS AWESOME... BUT... STOP CALLING IT A SEX COMEDY! It isn't a sex comedy. It is a hilarious movie, but if you hype it as a sex comedy, it will disappoint. It is just a great comedy. You know how Heathers is a witty classic that spoke to the misunderstood? Well Fired Up is just as witty -- but witty and unafraid to be dorky too. It's silly fun -- what a movie so little often is these days.
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All of Kellerman's reviews begin with: "Hey everyone! It's Annette Kellerman here..." all of Capone's reviews begin with "Hey everyone! It's Capone here...
you tell me. -
Ive been hating on Caponerman since 98.
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So what's the point?
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Not gonna watch it.
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This movie looks like a piece of trash. When the trailer played at the theater last month, there was zero reaction to it. NO BUYS~!
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do not a movie make that's cool to genre geeks. Why review this on this site?
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Is this an old contributor who has returned, or a new one? Either way, is ANOTHER review really necessary; and 4 days after the movie has opened?
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what happened to her holier than thou, faux question style, and sometimes occasional glimpses of smarts. someone please free the real annette kellerman.
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remember? you're supposed to spell some of the actor's names wrong to pretend like you weren't involved in the making of it (or at the very least weren't paid off by the studio). it's like sarah palin ending her pre-written debate comebacks with prepositions, to make it sound authentic and unscripted.
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At least in that pic.
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I claim at least 10% responsibility for driving her out of this website. She was really
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I like her better. At least she's entertaining.
http://valeriewriter.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/movie-review-quantum-of-solace/
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Feb 17, 2009 5:02:10 PM CST
Who is Annette Kellerman and why is she saying all these terribl
by mr dark
Eh ..I guess no one has seen that Dustin Hoffman film ..oh nevermind..
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And give her a good rogering..
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Congratulations, you've found your movie.
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SLUT!
That makes you submissive and misogynist pandering. And the film is still misogynist... all of these crummy yank comedies are.
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..i have zero interest in any movies at the moment that don't involve time travel, space, spaceships, monsters, monster hunting, knights, total fucking destruction, secret agents, robots, cowboys, murders, murder mysteries, superheroes, conspiracies, natural disasters, SWAT teams or wizards.
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...just go to /tv/
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Feb 17, 2009 5:59:49 PM CST
Overly enthusiastic reviews always signal my plant alarm...
by santoanderson
This movie doesn't look good, and the fact that Eric Christian Olsen is playing a character half his age takes away it's credibility.
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i will be the first to admit that i have never seen a single cheerleading movie.
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There - I said what everyone is thinking.
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it would probably be pretty awesome, as is I'll wait for an unrated dvd (if there is one)
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I hope to God you're some kind of troll.....thankfully I think you are
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I hate to ask but this whole article is worded like I am supposed to know who that is.
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Sounded like a cool lady. You ma'am, are no Annette Kellerman.
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I'm not... Your god has failed you.
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can you send or post a naked picture of yourself?
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Am I Capone? Am I Father Geek or Harry? Apparently liking this film even excludes me from being me...do any of you guys actually like movies at all?
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sometimes I ask myself the very same question Annette
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Low budget geek fest with a plot and lots of laughs. Far better than 90% of what I have seen the past year. And it is quotable.
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It wasn't the group stretching that made me a slut, it was fucking the entire football team that did it. Oops, did I just type that...
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Wouldn't want to pull a pussy muscle.
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from the look of the cameltoe
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probably would have banned me for asking about the naked picture thing. He has an itchy trigger finger.
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Feb 17, 2009 8:52:38 PM CST
FUCKING CHRISTIAN BALE IS LIKE FUCKING THE ENTIRE FOOTBALL TEAM
by bringingsexyback
Take it from me, sweetie.
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Feb 17, 2009 9:18:12 PM CST
If ever there was proof that AICN was full of impotent misogynis
by drturing
here it comes in this talkback.
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is the same reason why we hate Sarah Palin. Gender's got nothing to do with it inasmuch you don't consider how it's exploited by the person utilizing it.
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Just so lame.
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STOP WHINING!
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... Cagney & Lacey, but without all the ridiculous fart noises dubbed in.
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So you never would have read a review by Pauline Kael?
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Feb 18, 2009 11:38:26 AM CST
Women should stay home, have babies, and make sex...
by leafar the lost
...with their husbands. They should not be allowed to write movie reviews, because inevitably
they will get it all wrong and then cry about it when it is pointed out to them. It is pretty obvious that Annette Kellerman wanted to fuck these two, male leads of this shitty, "Fired Up" movie. The rest of the review is based on her desire to suck these guy's cocks, so we really can't believe anything that she has written. If a chick loves a movie, then any non-gay man will hate it. If my wife sees a movie and likes it, then I know it will suck. The latest movie that she loved was Paul Blart: Mall Cop. I rest my case...
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