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Respond/React: This is how you make a bad movie!

Fired Up! was by no means a good movie. It was pretty much a complete rip-off of Wedding Crashers, the story was completely by the numbers, and the characters were almost too one dimensional to even be cliche. That being said, it was a funny flick.

What this film had going for it was some great chemistry between the two leads, Nicholas D'Agosto & Eric Christian Olsen and a pretty healthy pace that helped the film from ever really lagging. It did a decent job of avoiding the dreaded last third meltdown that many hurts a lot of films like this (and almost killed Wedding Crashers). I'm not sure if most of the lines were improvised but if they weren't, screenwriter Freedom Jones should be on the top of many studios speed dial when it comes to punching up comedic dialogue. In fact, the writers for Entourage should hire this guy immediately to help give some new life to Johnny Drama and Turtle's back-and-forth.

Those good feelings aside, let's not forget that this movie isn't all that good and if you don't like your humor to be the slightly wittier banter of the typical locker room then you should stay away from this. Very little humor comes from the actual situations, it's almost 100% goofy repartee. I think it's safe to say that if you don't get into the movie after the first 10 or 15 minutes, you can turn it off because it's just more of the same for the rest of the movie.

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