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• A Very Funny Movie posted on 30 Aug 2009

  Co-directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck The story is about two rival skaters, Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy, who are banned from competitive skating for life after a huge fight after both winning gold medals. However, there was a loophole in the rules, they could pair up together being the first male pair skaters to enter competitive figure skating. They have to square off with an equally talented pair, which happened to be brother and sister, who share a rather sick relationship with each other, Stanz and Fairchild Van Waldenburg. However, Jimmy has a certain love interest for their sister Katie, however Stanz and Fairchild plan to use that love interest to ruin Chazz and Jimmy in the competition.This is the first and so for only movie pairing Will Ferrell and Jon Heders and they have magnificent chemistry together. They have great comic timing.Comedy delivers very well in this movie. Like I said, Heder and Ferrell have great comic timing and make even the most lowbrow jokes funny.The does a great job on spoofing other great figure skating movies, which is a very short list. Obviously the biggest spoof in the movie is based off of another figure skating comedy, The Cutting Edge, which was released in 1992. The story is almost like The Cutting Edge, two polar opposite people make a winning pair in figure skating, and attempt an impossible move at the end of the movie.While there isn't a lot of CGI in the movie, there are some great CGI shots, obviously the biggest accomplishments was putting Ferrell and Heder's faces on the skating doubles, which is an effect that has also been used on the latest Star Wars movies.Overall, a very funny movie. This is Will Farrell and John Heder at their best.

• They're must have been more laughs than The Longest yard posted on 22 Aug 2009

  The only reason I went to this movie, was simply because it was #1 at the box office. I didn't expect much, but I ended up laughing so hard at parts it was hard to breathe. If you are a fan of slapstick humor, i would definitely recommend seeing this, and if you have the time and money to see it, It is an entertaining use of 2 hours. For me it was nice to see Jon Heder back, although it wouldn't be much of a movie without Will Farrell.Overall, I would consider this a Guy's movie, but most chicks will laugh at many parts. If anyone is a fan of world-champion figure skaters, many of them have a cameo appearance (Nancy Carogen is looking particularly good these days).P.S. Don't get discouraged by the previews for this, as they don't give the movie justice.

• Has its moments but overall not a good comic work posted on 18 Aug 2009

  Blades of Glory stars John Heder and Will Ferrell as skaters who, due to zany circumstances beyond their control, are forced to skate together as the sport's first male-male pair. The comic premise here, as if it needs explaining, is that figure skating, at least in pairs' form, is all about sex. And no, it's not implicitly sexual, but you'll see when you watch this that the nature of the sport is that it just does not work when you stick two definitively heterosexual men into it. The results will make you cringe. But is it funny? Well, sort of.Another lesson the film reminded me of was that Will Ferrell, hilarious as he is, doesn't make a good movie by himself. You need to add in the right complements: preferably a screenwriter like Adam McKay and costars with improvisational ability like John C. Riley, David Koechner, Steve Carrell, and Vince Vaughn. When this happens, the actors get into a zone where jokes bounce off one another in a way that can't miss and they yield comic classics like "Old School", "Talladega Nights", and "Anchorman." This film has its moments but it never really gets into that zone. It has its quotable lines and flashes of brilliance that will make for a good trailer. The film features great performances by some great comic actors who with any luck will be able to use this as a springboard to bigger and better roles. These are Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler and Will Arnett (formerly of Arrested Development) as a rival pair, as well as The Office's Jenna Fischer as their goody-two-shoes sister. But still, the film never creates that atmosphere where you're laughing so hard you can't focus on anything else. It doesn't have enough momentum to carry over from scene to scene. It might be because after Dodgeball and Talladega Nights, sports parodies are no longer a novelty. It might be because Ferrell might just be overusing the same macho comic persona a little too much. It might also be John Heder. I'm not sure whether I want him to succeed at something other than Napoleon Dynamite so that people can once and for all move past Napoleon Dynamite (which I thought was decent but nowhere near as deserving of all the praise it received), or if I just want people to just skip the middle step and forget Napoleon Dynamite AND John Heder, period. The point is that if you subscribe to my theory that Napoleon Dynamite was a complete fluke of film popularity as it relates to film quality, than Heder has a lot to prove in your eyes if he wants to share the screen with Ferrell. Whether he delivers is arguable. He does have some range and proves he can be people other than Napoleon Dynamite, but I don't think he meets the bar set by Will Ferrell's costars, at least in this particular movie.

• It will make you laugh, but not continuously... posted on 12 Aug 2009

  Let me first state that I believe Ferrell is a comedic genius and have just about every single film of his (yes, even Bewitched).I am very open-minded when it comes to comedies... I like simple comedies that make me occasionally laugh throughout as well as the slapstick, gut-wrenching ones that I never stop laughing at. I walked into the movie expecting the first kind, but hoping for the second... I got what I expected.Ferrell and Heder worked very well together, the plot was well worked and there was the occasional scene that I turned to my friend and just burst out laughing at. Overall, I didn't laugh continuously like many people are saying they did. Don't get me wrong, this was a funny film, but those of you that are used to the Ferrell characters and films that make your belly hurt 30 minutes in may be a bit disappointed.As far as films that feature Ferrell as the main character go, this ranks around the middle of the pack, hence the 6 of 10 stars. It's not as hilarious as Anchorman, Elf, or Old School, but is certainly as good if not better than Talledaga Nights, Bewitched, or Kicking and Screaming.

• It's just another poor sports comedy. posted on 08 Aug 2009

  Besides the previous comical slapstick sports movies that been out. This one is no different from the other kinds. John Heder and Will Ferrel portray as 2 rival figure skaters in competition. But they both ended up being banned from doing figure skating after things went wrong. Even though they're both banned from figure skating. They're not banned from doing "Duat Figure Skating". So a coach decides to force the two to work together as this is the only way they'll ever get to skate for sport again. Despite both of them having different thoughts and different attitudes.There's nothing to look forward to for this movie. I never give a care about Will Ferrel. While John Hedder has been in better ones. The whole idea of this movie just didn't work with the whole plot hole, secondary characters, and less humorous moments. As in the moments that make your eyes role instantly.In return, I knew this movie isn't that good to see.

• Average to poor! posted on 02 Aug 2009

  Poor writing, obvious humour and "phone-in" performances leave this movie among the usual Will Ferrell (often Ben Stiller ) fare. I notice Stiller produced this 'nuff said!!There is no wit originality or decent quality in this. Many recent American so-called comedy movies suffer from this sort of complacent conception. Take someone from Saturday Night Live (and don't get me started on that load of dung) that has been moderately successful and put them in a series of indifferent vehicles that will show off their very indifferent "talents". I keep trying them but am always disappointed. Talk about the triumph of hope over experience!! Please do not waste your time on this kind of movie. There are better comic actors around, more subtle writers and more involving stories to tell.

• Great family entertainment posted on 25 Jul 2009

  This film is about the unlikely partnership of two ice skating rivals in the world championship of double figure skating.The idea of fusing modern moves, such as hip hop, robot dance and even resuscitation into ice skating is really good. It works well because these are new ideas, and they provide visually dynamic scenes. The costumes are also interesting, and the most memorable one is of course the skate rockets. The initial rivalry between Chazz and Jimmy is built well, and the subsequent partnership is also strong. The jokes are good, and the ice skating moves have to be seen to be believed. Will Ferrell and Jon Heder both did a great job as skaters. It's a fun film to watch!

• You'll laugh yourself seriously! posted on 19 Jul 2009

  Will Ferrell can do almost anything and here is play a sex addicted (heterosexual) American men's single figure skater, Chaz Michael Michales. His main competition is played by John Heder from Napoleon Dynamite as James McElroy who is adopted by a rich billionaire who takes talented orphans and makes them superstars. He's played by the great character actor, William Fichtner ( I remember him from As the World Turns). Heder can actually hold his own playing this gifted, sexually naive, effeminate skater. Both skaters get booted from men's single competition after a fight. So after three and half years of doing ice shows and working at a sports store, McElroy's longtime coach played by Craig T. Nelson reunites them to do pairs skating. Unfortunately, the top American pairs skating is played by the funny Amy Poehler from Saturday Night Live and her real-life husband Will Arnett as Fairchild and Stranz Von Wallenburg. They are like Kitty and Peter Carruthers of their time, another brother-sister team from the United States. The Office's Jenna Fischer plays Kate Von Wallenburg, the younger sister and assistant to her siblings' obsessive quest for the gold. In the meantime, Kate and Jimmy fall for each other but Kate's sister Fairchild has other plans for her sister. The Von Wallenberg siblings are always blaming Kate for their parents death in a car accident as they were driving her to ice skating practice. Of course, there are cameos by Olympic Gold Medalists, Peggy Fleming, Scott Hamilton who plays a commentator and Britan Boitano, and Olympic Silver & Bronze medalist Nancy Kerrigan at the National Skaters ASsociation. Of course, the writers have worked around not setting it around the United States Figure Skating Association and their Olympics is the Wintersports in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It's a funny movie despite some flaws. If only ice skating was about art instead of about how many triple jumps that a person can do in four minutes. Most of the music, costumes, and actions in the figure skating world shown here wouldn't pass the world skating league.

• Wait for it to be on TV posted on 17 Jul 2009

  I was really pretty disappointed in this movie. I just watched it on HBO because frankly it didn't look all that funny from the ads. It had some decent laughs strewn throughout but nothing flat-out hilarious. I'm not the stuffy kind of viewer who hates physical comedy either. I can watch Anchorman for the 5th time and still laugh out loud pretty hard a few times, but this never had those moments for me.It's the typical Will Ferrell movie where he is the idiot savant and the joke's on him. He never realizes it or just rolls with it, you know the rest. He was funny here and there and can still come up with the completely off-the-wall things to say. Heder is better when he talks less. I loved Napoleon Dynamite, but here his character was the Will Ferrell style of over-the-top. Didn't make sense to me so much. Arnett and the SNL chick were OK, but could've been given some funnier things to do.Really the best part was Jenna Fischer in a corset. She seemed to be well-aware that the role was pretty silly and she didn't fit in the movie that well. But then again, they needed a pretty goody-two shoes and she seems to fit that. I'd like her to aim a little higher though, as I bet she could do some pretty good comedy with a good script.Better than the 50th showing of "Breakfast Club" on TBS but not better than the 30th you know what I mean? I wouldn't pay to watch it, but then I didn't so it all works out.

• One of the most hilarious movies in awhile! posted on 15 Jul 2009

  This movie is for everyone who loves Will Ferrell style humor. The light, sarcastic, silly character he plays went so well with John Heder's depiction of a spoiled feminine ice skating champion that it may send me back for a seconds. Prior to seeing the film, I was a bit concerned that this movie, like some others, would contain dull material as opposed to what was shown in the previews. Fortunately, this was not the case and the previews were only a taste of similar scenes throughout the movie! I kept finding myself surprised at the amount humorous details that kept popping up. The thought that went into the ice skating scenes was matrix special effects meets Saturday night live. I can't wait to buy this for my personal collection.

• Very funny... posted on 13 Jul 2009

  I guess most people have heard that this movie is very funny. It is what you would expect from the people involved in this movie, all the way to Ben Stiller helping produce the movie. A lot of good one liners are in this movie as well as a lot of physical comedy. I liked it a lot. Anyone who goes to see this will not be disappointed. There are a lot of Ferrell and Heder haters out there, and that is fine, but then just don't go see this movie then because you probably do not have a sense of humor and wont get the jokes anyway. I hope anyone else who goes to see it enjoys its comedy, and i do think that most people who are going to see this movie know exactly what to expect.

• How can something so wrong be so right? posted on 11 Jul 2009

  Will Ferrell and Jon Heder in another chocolate and peanut-butter experiment from the comedy studios, end up being more like a chicken sushi roll, too weird to explain, and too tasty to not enjoy. Blades of Glory is to figure skating what Baseketball was to MLB, ridiculously and barely related and yet surprisingly fun. The doubling, L-Cam and wirework effects were pretty good as they were far off enough from reality already to give themselves enough license to do whatever they wanted. Jon Heder shows some range from his "Aww, shucks," persona of Benchwarmers and School for Scoundrels, and Will Farrell is definitely reaching somewhere between Ron Burgundy and Ricky Bobby for his Chazz, both almost original but not quite. While these characters work well off each other it is the very wrongness, the taboo breaking of having two men going crotch to face and trying to act like it isn't happening that makes this far more amusing retrospectively, than the sheer shock value of the infamous scene in Borat. Admittedly the latter had me almost hurt myself laughing at the time, every time I think of it since I want to press Delete in my brain. While this movie had me shaking my head, at least in this case I could look my wife in the eye and smile and shrug and be pleased to see her laughing rather than worry if I was going to get in trouble for bringing her (Like I write these things!). Considering the subject matter of men's pairs figure skating, sex addiction, incest and stalking are all par for the course for this film, it was surprisingly appropriate and easy to stomach, certainly a feat as memorable as the Iron Lotus.

• Great Film. Will Arnett is a genius. Jenna Fischer is Hot Totty posted on 01 Jul 2009

  I'm going to focus on Will Arnett for this interview. This man is a comedy hero. His voice is hilarious and his facial expressions are second to none. To this day i have no idea why this man is not a big comedy star. I recommend you all to watch Arrested Developpment (TV) on DVD. That show is full of talent.Secondly I want to focus on Jenna Fischer. She plays Pam Beesly in the Office and she looks like a nice pretty girl. In this film you see a different side to Jenna. She is fit. She has some nice b00bies and buttocks as well. She really amkes lingerie what it is.Jon Heder was cast in a role i don't think anyone else could have pulled off. Genius casting.Amy Poheler did great as well. Great comedic chemistry with her "brother" husband.Will Ferell is always good. Man can do no wrong at the moment (except Bewitched) What stops the film getting a 10 is the cheesiness at the end but i was constantly laughing and what more can you ask for.

• Not as hilarious as I wanted but amusing nonetheless, and with some good moments posted on 27 Jun 2009

  In the world of male solo figure skating, two US giants are ahead of the pack. Jimmy MacElroy was raised from a boy with the single goal of being a champion, with the millions of champion-maker Darren MacElroy behind him. Chazz Michael Michaels is the opposite of MacElroy's perfect presentation – a rough and ready man with a sex addiction but yet undeniable talent. The two have battled for years but things come to a head when they share gold medal position. On the podium a fight breaks out between them and the pair are banned for life from the sport. Years later they are both doing nothing but getting by until MacElroy's stalker approaches them with a loophole in the sport rules – they are only banned from single events, not pairs.Undeniably silly this thing but yet quite pleasing at the same time. We have seen this sort of sports spoof several times over the last few years and the quality has ranged with some highs in Dodgeball but others not totally working as well such as Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Blades of Glory falls more in the latter camp as it is not brilliant but still has fun if you are in the mood. Considering the idea behind it I was rather surprised that it was not constantly off-the-wall material but mostly it had me amused throughout. The plot is straightforward but serviceable. The skating is outrageously silly (although some of the effects do push it) and overblown in a carefree way. The script does have some really good lines but too often I found myself looking for more than the dialogue was giving me.Ferrell is good in the main role and he works the fact that, ignoring everything else, he is still a very unlikely figure skater. Heder is very much secondary to him because of the differences in the characters but he is good value for what he gets to do. Arnett and Poehler do tend to steal any scene that they are in, while Fischer is an enjoyable addition. Fichtner, Nelson and others fill out the cast well. As with Dodgeball, I enjoyed the commentators and the script does make good sport of them, but I would have liked them to have been more a part of the film than they were.Overall though, despite it not being the most hilarious or clever thing you'll ever see, it does have plenty of laughs and did consistently amuse me even it did lack that many really good moments.

• Unwatchable posted on 23 Jun 2009

  I just couldn't stomach it. It was incredibly dumb. It was boring. I'm amazed that people put up with this crap from Hollywood. I'd rather watch all the really funny, creative stuff that regular people are putting up on youtube. Maybe some day, if regular people ever wake up and realize how much they are collectively paying for the soul-numbing, pablum Hollywood churns out, they'll figure out how badly they are being ripped off. Reading all these glowing reviews about a crappy movie like this is like listening to someone raving about a gourmet dining experience at McDonalds. Make your own entertainment. Boycott Hollywood! Don't buy into the advertising and psychological manipulation that you need to be entertained by "experts". Free your mind.

• Two arch rival skaters get into a fight and thus are banned from men's single skating. They in turn find a loophole that they can be the first male pairs skaters. posted on 19 Jun 2009

  I really do love will Ferrell but I would say this movie is a miss. A majority of the funny parts are shown in the previews. I went with a friend to see it and we only laughed out loud once. I would just wait for the rental. I thought it was going to be hilarious but didn't find it very funny. The movie in itself seemed very short and not much of a plot. It's worth renting but not worth the price of a movie ticket. I think this movie was a little overrated, it had a lot of potential to be amazing but it just needed more story or something in order to be super funny. I liked Amy Poehler as well as Jenna Fisher they both did a great job. I also thought John Heder and Will Ferrell were good at their parts. Overall though I would just wait for the rental save yourself a little money.

• Napoleon Dynamite a piece of unfunny sh*t posted on 13 Jun 2009

  That horse-mouthed ugly turd from that stupid Napleon Dynamite movie is a total loser. He has zero talent and ruins everything he's in. I can't believe he keeps getting parts! He should have stayed in Utah.Well, he won't be in the movies for too long, except maybe mormon missionary training films because everyone will soon realize how badly he sucks ass.Anyway, this movie is just plain asinine. It's not funny. Unless you find crotch jokes and people in spandex funny. Do you? Will Farrell is getting more irritating with every movie. He also will soon wear out his welcome by putting out these rushed cookie-cutter films. He's not that funny. Unless you find his tubby body funny. Do you?Because I sure a hell don't.

• Mediocrity on ice posted on 09 Jun 2009

  ** out of **** stars(long sigh) With Blades of Glory you get exactly what you'd expect: Napoleon Dynamite and Ron Burgandy on Ice. Will Ferrell, once again, is cast as a character with an outlandish ego who is unashamed of his bravado. Remind you of anyone? And Heder? Set comfortably as the geeky shadow behind that bravado. A few laughs? Absolutely. Have we seen this plot before? Surely. Even the casting of the legendary skater Scott Hamilton doesn't come as a surprise. Peggy Fleming and Dorothy Hamill have (thankfully) non-speaking cameos. Let's keep adding those cliché ingredients to make another mediocre comedy: the pretty love interest, the kooky adversaries, the domineering coach, etc, etc. Here are the comedies that come to mind with this same old formula: Dodgeball. Anchorman. Kicking and Screaming. You get the picture. Ferrell, remember Stranger than Fiction? You were going in the right direction with that.If you want another Big Mac or Burrito Supreme, watch Blades. I myself have tasted these before. I'd rather not choke on something familiar. I'll move on to something else and swallow it down nicely.

• A great comedy that is definitely worth seeing...is the exact opposite of what this movie was posted on 09 Jun 2009

  This movie was so boring. I have lost all faith in Will Ferril being a good comedic actor. My friend was psyched to see this movie because various sources gave it great reviews. I was hesitant to go along because I know this would end up another stupid comedy with dumb sexual references and Will Ferril being a childish drunk-off-his-butt character. And do you know what? I was right. It's has bad actors, Will Ferril being drunk, Jon Heder, and Ice Skating. To me, that is a recipe for disaster. I chuckled 4 times during this movie and didn't laugh at all, except once at my own joke as to how bad the movie was. I told my friend I was going to go to the bathroom, when instead I just sat outside the theater for 10 minutes playing on my cell phone. The story line is stupid in this movie, and it is such a terrible movie. I don't know how the people in the theater were laughing like crazy at all the stupid antics of Will Ferril. Bottom line: Don't SEE THIS MOVIE!

• Blades of Hilarity posted on 09 Jun 2009

  The Will Ferrell & Jon Heder 'odd couple' buddy comedy "Blades of Glory" pokes a lot of good-natured humor at straight-up masculinity with its hilarious pairing of two guys as figure skaters in a competitive sport traditionally dominated by male & female teams rather than a same sex twosome. Imagine the D.B. Sweeney & Moira Kelly romantic comedy "The Cutting Edge" (1992) with two dudes ice-skating in tandem instead of the usual male & female duo, and you've got an adequate idea about what to expect from co-directors Will Speck and Josh Gordon in their big-screen debut.Speck and Gordon called the shots on two short comedy films, "Angry Boy" (1996) and "Culture" (1998), but they are best known for a number of Geico commercials that they have helmed along with the Super Bowl spot TV commercial 'Exaggerating Dad' for Emerald Nuts. Were it not for the brilliance of Ferrell and Heder in the lead roles, this soporific satire about figure-skating would amount to little more than a live-action spin on the venerable 1960s' cartoon series "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle," with real-life married couple Will Arnett & Amy Poehler cast as a villainous combo along the lines of Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. Although brothers Jeff and Craig Cox penned their screenplay based on an idea by Elizabeth Jean 'Busy' Philipps, "Blades of Glory" virtually replicates the plots of two earlier Ferrell hit comedies "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" (2004) and "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" (2006).As super macho athlete Chazz Michael Michaels, Will Ferrell qualifies as the wild man of the skating rink. An alcoholic with a sex addiction dilemma, Chazz resembles a tall, flabby Jim Morrison, when he isn't espousing the politically incorrect mind-set of a drunken Neanderthal, picture the late comic genius John Belushi from either "Animal House" or "1941." When we first see him on the ice, Chazz sports a black Waylon Jennings' Stetson, dresses like a biker, and skates to hard-rocking strains of Billy Squire's 1980s' classic hit "The Stroke." Women swoon as Chazz skates past them, and they shower him with thongs and double-D bras. No sooner has the pelvic-thrusting Chazz strutted his he-man stuff than rival figure-skating champ Jimmy MacElroy (John Heder of "Napoleon Dynamite" and "The Benchwarmers") glides onto the ice to the melodic tunes of Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman. Slender, elegant, tasteful, with a hallo of blow-dried blond hair, Jimmy impersonates a graceful peacock, decked out in a powder-blue, spandex outfit, with a fluff of tail feathers sprouting from his rump. These guys cannot stand the sight of each other either on the ice or off the rink. Indeed, they hate each other with a passion. The recipients of a shared gold medal for men's singles at the Olympic World Wintersport Games, Chazz and Jimmy struggle to tolerate each other during the awards ceremony. Chazz's blend of raunchy cologne with his taco-meat smelling body odor prompts Jimmy to assault him. The two scuffle before an audience of millions while the judges gape in horror.During their fisticuffs, they tip over a flaming candleholder that ignites the costume of a guy inside of a mascot suit. Commissioner Ebbers (the always funny William Daniels, who provided the voice of the car in the 1980s' TV show "Knight Rider") and a panel of real-life skaters, including Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Brian Boitano, and Nancy Kerrigan, summarily ban Chazz and Jimmy for life from figure-skating.Not only does Jimmy lose his wealthy Donald Trump-style sponsor Darren MacElroy (William Fichtner of "Armageddon") who had discovered him in a Catholic orphanage and nurtured his figure-skating talent, but also his coach (Craig T. Nelson of "All The Right Moves") loses his job. Simultaneously, Chazz winds up skating in a children's ice show as a wizard, but he gets fired for boozing it up and puking inside of his costume. The only person who displays loyalty to a disgraced and fallen Jimmy is his male stalker Hector (Nick Swardson, better known as the male hooker Terry on "Reno 911"), who is under a restraining order to stay away from Jimmy. Hector, however, uncovers a loophole in the bylaws that allows Jimmy to resume his figure-skating career, but only as a participant in a doubles team. Yeah, you guessed it, Jimmy and Chazz team up at the behest of the coach who wants to give them another shot at stardom.Despite some uneven pacing in the early parts of this over-the-top comedy, "Blades of Glory" serves up a plethora of sight gags and off-color jokes that won't be soon forgotten. Ferrell and Heder make an interesting pair in this definitely off-beat coupling.