Blades of Glory (Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: Amy Poehler, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Will FerrellDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-28
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Movie Reviews of Blades of Glory (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: A typical modern comedy good for a few laughs
Summary: 3 Stars
I was in the first generation of Saturday Night Live and followed the careers of its first great comics -- Dan Ackroyd, John Belushi and Bill Murray -- and stepped away from the show way before Eddie Murphy showed up. So Will Ferrell, whom many 30-somethings today think is the metaphor os silly comedy, never registered with me. I've not had interest in any of his films. I watched this one at the request of a friend going through tough times who told me it was a lot better than he expected. Turns out the film reminded me some of a movie from a similar time in Murray's career called "Stripes" about the star going into the Army.
You probably already know the "Blades of Glory" storyline: rival figure skaters Ferrell and prissy Jon Heder torment each other and fight during a skating World Championships award cermemony and are stripped of their ability to compete for life as individuals. After unsatisfactory careers away from the spotlight, they exploit a loophole come back as a two-man doubles team using an oddball collection of moves. They recommect with an old coach, begin training in a meat locker, and you can probably guess the rest. There's a lot silly sexual innuendo and nice romance involved, too. And, as he has in other films, Ferrell is more than happy to show off his beer gut.
This movie reminded me a lot of other sports comedies like "Cool Runnings" and "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story". It wasn't as good as the first one and wasn't as filthy as the second but shared elements of both -- bad guys with good hearts, tragedy turned to triumph, and an overriding feeling of lightness and silliness that ensures you are entertained all the time. The movie has a lot of authentic ice skating people in it and some famous sportscasters, too. I doubt this is done to give authenticity to the flick, which no one will confuse with reality moviemaking.
The production values are all pretty good and everything is well lit so no action escapes you on those grounds. There are plenty of laughs on hand, most due to Ferrell's antics and the counterpoint between his roughneck, hard drinking, sexual and out there character and the blond, prissy, good two shoes character John Heder portrays. Craig Nelson plays the role of coach, of course, in his typical style. It's a good cast with some laughs that should get you through a night when you're looking for something light, funny, predicatable and forgettable.
Summary of Blades of Glory (Widescreen Edition)
Take two male figure skaters, throw in a preposterous storyline, and you've got Blades of Glory, a surprisingly funny film that almost makes you forgive Will Ferrell for his back-to-back 2005 clunkers Kicking & Screaming and Bewitched. This time around, Ferrell eats the scenery in his role as a sex-addicted, cocky skating champ named Chazz Michael Michaels. When he gets into an on-podium fight with his nemesis and co-gold medallist Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder, Napoleon Dynamite), both skaters are banned from competing in men's figure-skating events. Forever. Their fall from grace is brutal. Chazz is forced to work for a D-list skating show, while pampered Jimmy is disowned by his wealthy and cold-hearted adoptive father (excellently played by William Fichtner), who only wants to be around winners. When Jimmy points out that he tied for gold, his dad cruelly says, "If I wanted to share, I would've bought you a brother." Flash forward 3-1/2 years and Jimmy's No. 1 stalker Hector (Nick Swardson) says he's found a loophole. Jimmy's been banned from men's singles events, but there's nothing that says he can't compete in pairs skating. After a chance meeting with Chazz, mayhem ensues as the two rivals team up to go against the brother-and-sister team of Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg (played by Will Arnett and his real-life wife, Amy Poehler of Saturday Night Live and Mean Girls fame). The Van Waldenbergs will stop at nothing to beat the competition, even if that means literally beating up the competition. They have no qualms manipulating their sweet little sister (Jenna Fischer, The Office) to seduce both men to try to break up the team.The finale will be no surprise to moviegoers who know that comedies like this aren't set up to make its leading men losers. But there is one brief skating sequence set in North Korea that will surprise (and shock) many viewers because of its brutality. Ferrell and Heder make a great comedy team. Though he has been accused of playing the same role since his breakthrough performance in Napoleon Dynamite and, to a certain extent, plays a similar type of role here, Heder is spot-on as Jimmy. He manages to convey innocence, bitterness, and longing--all within the span of a few seconds and while wearing a peacock unitard (You can understand why Hector is so enthralled with him). Look for guest appearances by real-life skating champs Scott Hamilton, Brian Boitano, Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Nancy Kerrigan, and Sasha Cohen, who gets to sniff Chazz's jockstrap. --Jae-Ha Kim
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When rival figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) go ballistic in an embarrassing, no-holds-barred fight at the World Championships, they are stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life. Now, three-and-a-half years on, they've found a loophole that will allow them to compete: if they can put aside their differences, they can skate together - in pairs' figure skating
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