- 6
...a TV-grade cheerleader comedy...
—Luke Y. Thompson E!
- 6
...a kind of dumb but also kind of smart-about-being-dumb comedy...
—Manohla Dargis New York Times
- 6
The teensploitation premise is like something a porn filmmaker from the '70s might have come up with.
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 5
Passable in its efficiency, Fired Up! is less offensive than it might have been while also managing to be staggeringly uninspired. It tries to put its loutish behavior in ironic quotation marks, but being smart enough to know when you're being an idiot still doesn't make the behavior welcome.
—Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times
- 5
I didn't half-mind Fired Up, but half a mind is more than it deserves.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 5
...an occasionally amusing, sometimes horrifying misogynistic, homophobic and half-heartedly satiric mash-up of American Pie, Porky's and Bring It On, among many others.
—Lou Lumenick New York Post
- 3
It's like being trapped for an hour-and-a-half in a pound full of yappy puppies.
—Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter
- 3
Here is a movie that will do for cheerleading what Friday the 13th did for summer camp.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 3
...plays like a direct-to-video American Pie sequel.
—Nick Schager Slant Magazine
- 3
Fired Up! promises guilty pleasure, but has the edge of a bowling ball. It doesn't bring anything new or engaging to the genre, just playing connect-the-dots with a standard formula which wasn't very interesting to begin with.
—Blake French Reel
- 2
...the pic is just a sad, cheapo bid to be the Bring It On of the '00s.
—Robert Koehler Variety
- 2
Fired Up! promises guilty pleasure, but has the edge of a bowling ball. It doesn't bring anything new or engaging to the genre, just playing connect-the-dots with a standard formula which wasn't very interesting to begin with.
—Blake French filmcritic.com
- 0
...particularly abhorrent...
—Aaron Hillis Village Voice
- 0
Like a grotesque hybrid between the straight-to-DVD American Pie and Bring It On sequels...
—Scott Tobias Onion AV Club