American Pie may be the prototypical early-21st century teen comedy, but that doesn’t mean it was the first – or best – to blend low-brow humor, sex and male camaraderie. And while this week’s Fired Up provides a similar brand of guys-guy nonsense via the story of two football studs who join their school’s lame-o cheerleading squad in order to attend a three-week cheer camp full of horny babes, it’s far from the finest the genre has to offer. Of course, neither is this week’s archival recommendation, Robert J. Rosenthal’s 1982 Zapped!, yet the difference between the two is that Fired Up seems to know how inane it is, while Zapped! operates under the delusion that its pitiful one-liners and faux-titillating gags are actually delivering the Porky’s-esque goods. They most certainly do not, but the comedy – starring Scott Baio as a science-loving geek who acquires telekinetic powers and uses them (as the theatrical poster so helpfully illustrated) to peep at women’s private parts – somehow benefits, in a backhanded sort of way, from its awfulness. Co-starring Baio’s future Charles in Charge sidekick Willie Aames, Zapped! may thoroughly squander its premise’s cheesy-raunchy potential, but the proceedings’ C-grade incompetence ultimately seems pretty apt for a film, and genre, so rooted in serving up crude, base kicks.