Fired Up - 12A

"IN the morning, you know you won't remember a thing," sing Razorlight at the start of this American high-school sex comedy.

All told, that's a generous estimate - I'd forgotten every jot and tittle five minutes after the projector stopped whirring.

Fired Up stars Nicholas D'Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen as meathead jocks Shawn and Nick, who go to cheerleading camp to try and squire as many hot chicks as possible.

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Despite looking like a chewed Kris Marshall doll and Ashton Kutcher's fairground mirror, they are irresistible to "the ladies". So what happens when they're surrounded by hundreds of standard-issue babes straight off the Nuts office photocopier?

Tears, shouting and a mass outbreak of VD? No, a few smutty skits then an extended third act where they "learn what's important in life" - not objectifying skirt.

But Fired Up isn't the outright disaster it looks like. In fact, it's only 85 per cent as bad as you might think. (Dear Sony Pictures, please feel free to use that one on the poster.)

Because serial comedy backup man John Michael Higgins as a cheerleading coach and new face David Walton as a girl's boyfriend conjure up some chuckles.

The best moment is an in-car singalong. Says Dave: "Chumbawamba! Classic. 'I get knocked down but I get up again.' Story of my life." In which case - your film stinks, mate, despite your best efforts.

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