“Fired Up!” is an excellent synthesis of everything that was great about “Wedding Crashers” and “Bring It On.”

Shawn Colfax (Nicholas D’Agosto, “Heroes”) and Nick Brady (Eric Christian Olsen, “Eagle Eye”) are the two biggest players at their high school, on and off the football field.

They even have their bad boy routine down to a play-by-play to help get themselves out of sticky situations, like when two muscle-head fathers catch them home alone with their daughters.

When the high school’s terrible, uncoordinated cheerleaders talk about going to cheer camp for the summer, Shawn and Nick decide to join in on cheerleader camp instead of football camp.

Slightly mocking movies like “Bring It On,” everything about the cheerleading camp is delightfully over the top.

In one scene, the massive group of cheerleaders is even watching “Bring it On” on a big screen. In one voice, they recite the lines of the movie, word-for-word.

All of the other male characters at the camp are either outwardly or subtlety gay.

The two head coaches of the camp are married, even though the man, Coach Keith (John Michael Higgins, “For Your Consideration”) is not-so-subtlety gay. Not only does he wipe his mouth after kissing his wife, but he tells the camp he was born doing spirit fingers.

The ridiculousness goes beyond sexual humor. There are a small group of mascots at the camp. Not only do they have to stay in their costumes throughout the entire three weeks of camp, but they are not allowed to talk, only gesture.

Although Nick and Shawn originally go to the cheerleading camp for the girls, they slowly start to enjoy the camp and actually value the cheerleaders as people.

Shawn is the first to actually become humanized when he falls for Carly (Sarah Roemer, “Disturbia”), the captain of his cheer squad. Shawn tries to win Carly over, despite her already being in a relationship.

Carly’s boyfriend prefers to be called “Dr. Rick,” even though he’s only a freshman in college. He is pre-med and figures he might as well not delay the inevitable.

Coupled with the humor that Rick is completely full of himself, he is always driving up onto the scene blasting some terribly dated song from the 1990s, such as Deep Blue Something’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” Lou Bega’s “Mambo Number Five” and Chumbawumba’s “Tubthumping.”

Of course, this comes just in time for their original plan of conquering and leaving before the end of camp to be revealed.

“Fired Up!” is full of ridiculous, over-the-top humor in almost every moment of the film

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