Yet another miss for Will Ferrell

Rating: 4/10 (15 April 2007)

Why have I blindly ventured off into another movie starring the groan-inducing king, Will Ferrell? Could it be stupidity, or just unintelligent curiosity to see if I may've been too hard on Talladega Nights? Looking back, I'd have to say both. Before the movie, I tried to erase any past bad feelings I had toward Ferrell and his anti-laugh style, and for a few minutes it worked. But after a while, it was the same ol' garbage lines and dumb character that he plays in just about every other movie he stars in. Now I'm not saying Will Ferrell is bad- I'm just saying that I can not stand him. I can see how some may get too much of a kick out of him, but to me, he's just an immature loudmouth who must certainly carry a large ego because he never feels the need to alter the character he plays.
Focusing on the positives nowone of the better parts to the movie has to be Jon Heder, who plays male ice skater Jimmy MacElroy. Heder has shown major career improvement and "evolution," if you can call it that. Many of the few funny parts from Blades of Glory happen solely because of Heder. Ferrell, on the other hand, is Chazz Michael Michaels, a man who is "sex on ice" and wants everyone to know that he is a "sex addict who loves females." Those parts, when spoken in the movie, are minor laugh-riots. However, minus those few lines, Ferrell just doesn't make me laugh at all. In fact, he one-ups that statement: he actually makes me mad- mad because of that damn ego that is always shining through his body, or in Blades' case, his spandex (yuck, by the way, but that's a whole other topic that I will not be addressing).
Besides Jon Heder's fairly good performance, the storyline and idea in Blades of Glory is intriguing. When I saw the trailer, I was mildly amused, and since I can see an infinite amount of movies for free, I figured I'd go see it. Now, this being a comedy, the storyline is not supposed to be the main attraction. To me it was: the soap opera aura that was floating around Ferrell and Heder and their cheating rivals was interesting, as was the end chase between Ferrell and the cheating husband. That is until Ferrell opened his mouth.
I thought to myself through the parts that I didn't appreciate if the situations in Blades would be funny if they were really occurring, like in real life. I came to the conclusion that in real life, these situations may be funny, but the movie made it so unrealistic that it had no hope for capitalizing on that ideal outcome. So don't blame me for not enjoying Blades of Glory, because I tried to. -Nick Harvey
Good) Heder does fairly well, idea is OK Bad) Ferrell: never understood him, probably never will Sex Innuendos) Just flat out horrible, along with all the groin jokes