Whoever said, “Fired Up,” the new cheerleading movie was not just another cheerleading movie was highly mistaken.

Two football jocks by the names of Shawn (Nicholas D’Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) are your typical horny teenage boys who choose to skip the pain and long days of football camp and instead go to cheerleading camp (oh no! What a pain for them, right?).

They join their high school cheerleading squad and expect that cheer camp is all about hot girls being half-naked. They begin to feel that it is a lot more than they expected with running and doing flips all day long.

There are indeed a couple of funny characters in the movie, however it was so close to any cheerleading movie that has ever been made, I seriously thought I was watching “Bring it on Again,” again and again.

Don’t get me wrong, I did laugh during the movie, but only because I felt so bad for the actors in it. I mean really, it was bad the actors were far too old to be teenagers.

The movie included the normal cliches that all the “la di da “cheerleading chick flicks have. There was the captain of the cheer squad that wants so much more for her team, and the guys, who were only on the squad to get with the hot cheerleaders.

I want to know when directors are going to know their limits when it comes to dumb movies with actors that can’t act.

The acting was absolutely terrible and Olsen could in no way, shape or form be looked at as a high school student. He looks at least 35 and the whole time I was watching the movie I thought I was watching an old man hitting on high school girls.

Furthermore, Olsen was obviously taking acting lessons from Ryan Reynolds as he was using his sarcastic swagger and funny disposition. It was like watching “Just Friends.” Sorry buddy, we already have a Reynolds in the world, we don’t need another.

Carly (Sarah Roemer), who plays the captain of the cheer squad, was another part of the movie I had a hard time watching.

There was no chemistry between her and the characters and I almost thought I was watching her work on her first movie ever.

Please, please spare yourself the pain and the money. Do not go out and spend $10 on a movie you can rent at a movie rental store for only $4. The movie is called “Bring It On,” and it came out in 2000.

Vanessa Johnson can be reached at [email protected]