exactly what you expect it to becrazy funnyso be careful not to choke on your popcorn!

Rating: 8/10 (18 June 2007)

Will Ferrell brings the funny back in the expectedly hootworthy flick Blades of Glory as men's figure skating bad boy on ice, Chazz Michael Michaels. Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite, The Benchwarmers) plays Chazz's nemesis, skating prodigy Jimmy MacElroy. In a competition, the two had to share the men's single's gold medal, and so a fight ensues between the archrivals, which leads to their being banned from men's competitive figure skatingin the single's division, that is! Jimmy's crazed fan discovers a loophole in the rules, which enables the two to team up to compete in partner skating, much to the displeasure of skating sibling sensations Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg (played by real-life husband and wife SNL stars Will Arnett and Amy Poehler). They coerce their sister Katie (played by The Office's Jenna Fischer) into spying for them, but she ends up falling for the competition.
As always, Ferrell irreverently ad-libs his way throughout the movie; hence, the need for the remarkably alert cast to react and play able foil to his spontaneous bursts of hilarity. Heder holds his own as Ferrell's competent sidekick with his earnest portrayal of his character.
Blades of Glory is exactly what you expect it to becrazy funnyso be careful not to choke on your popcorn!