Fired Up/(newly released dvd's)

Fired Up

"Notable Actors"

1. Nicholas D' Agosto- a nobody
2. Eric Christian Olsen- The Hot Chick, The comebacks
3. Sarah Roemer- Disturbia

Genre

• comedy 
• cheer leading mumble jumble

Fired Up. I think I should start this review by giving props first to a different movie. A movie that I loved and have seen literally a hundred times. One of the ultimate chick flicks . This film because of it's success caused all of America to finally take notice to a certain sport; Cheer leading. This movie unfortunately also inspired way too many terrible low budget sequels that never even came close in capturing the "magic" from its original. This epic tale is called Bring It On. It was such an influence to the genre Fired Up even paid tribute to the movie in the film .

I'm proud to announce that Fired Up is everything the other cheer leading movies are not. Yes, Fired Up is a cheer leading movie, which makes it a comedy. But for once a flick gives us a male perspective on the sport with the help from two high school male whores that are best friends, Nick and Sean. And although there are a lot of the usuals' for a cheer leading movie like boys with generic names, male cheerleaders, dumb blonde's, stunt doubles, lots of cheering, etc. Their are some newbies in this one folks. We get hilarious coaches, one that loves the word "shit" one that doesn't know hes gay yet, we get closet lesbians, croc loving losers and a plot where the ultimate goal isn't to win big but to score even bigger!

Our resident male whore students Nick and Sean, who have a healthy appetite for easy, stupid-as-hell girls come up with the idea to go to their schools cheer leading camp for a hot summer of non-stop hooking up. In order to do this they first have to convince the girls that want to join the squad. Since the squad quote "sucks balls", they are more than willing to accommodate these charismatic good looking tumblers onto their squad. They are all charmed except for miss Carly(Roemer) the squad captain that Sean ends up falling for. We follow the team through a three week summer camp that teaches Nick and Sean a lot of cliches about love and life it's a lot of fun.

Don't expect anything deep about this movie we will probably gain nothing having watched it but whats to be expected from cheerleaders anyway? This movie is non stop laughter and very much entertaining. I'm not about to go out and do back hand springs but this movie certainly me feeling corny enough to say that it got me fired up!

movie grade

b

worth watching?

 I'd say so

The Unborn (on dvd)

The Unborn

"Notable" actors

1. Megan Good (wth?)- sexy black girl with no business in movie
2. Odette Yustman- Girl that looks like Megan Fox
3. Gary Oldman- Movie Air Force One
4. Atticus Shaffer- Daddy's little Girls and Obsessed
5. Cam Gigandet- Twilight

 Genre

• thiller
• horror?

The Unborn. After suffering through this movie a few more words with the "un" prefix meaning not  come to mind. Such as uneventful, unsettling and un-........intelligble? My favorite this movie should have remained unwritten.

I had hopes for this movie. The trailer had me a bit intrigued ; A young girl , whom we come to know in the movie as Casey, (resembling a less "hot" version of Megan fox ask's her dad if she was a twin and he reveals she was.) Her would-be  twin brother nicknamed "Jumby" died while they were still in the womb. But come on with a name like Jumby was his death a bad thing? 
  Casey and a slew of noticeable B-list actors were unable to pull this movie together. But it wasn't their fault. The movie was down right confusing. The whole plot about this "unborn child" dates back to when Casey's grandmother, who was also a twin, was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. The Nazi's took a special interest in twins and they experimented and killed them regardless of age. Casey's grandmother 's twin brother was killed during an experiment.

He came back to life two days later but no one suspected anything until he started acting mean..... A dibit (a ghost) that takes an interest in twins took over his body. Eventually the grandmother realized her brother was not the same and killed him herself but the ghost never went away. It hovered, waiting for another twin possibly . Casey's mom killed herself which is mentioned but didn't happen during the movie and there really is no clear explanation why. But it apparently ties into this dibit for some reason .Throughout the whole movie you never see Casey's father again after he reveals keeping the the twin secret to Casey so she's pretty much on her own to fend off this dibit that kills everyone she loves including the rabbi and other men she enlist to get an exorcism?!?! The real mystery is how the movie itself The Unborn  has the audacity to call itself a thrilller, a horror or even intelligent. Its tried way too hard and doesnt suceed at all.

And the twist at the end? Casey is alone, because all her loved ones have been killed, and she's pregnant with twins. Didn't see that coming. But I don't know why the creators did too because I dont know what this means for Casey and her unborns.
Save time and money folks. More importantly save your self the money you might spend on botox because the story line has you raising your eyebrows throughout the whole thing and unfortunately long after its over.
 movie grade

C-

worth watching?

no