Almost but not quite

Rating: 2/10 (15 April 2007)

They almost made a bearable Will Ferrall film. Almost, but not quite.
Take 2 male skaters who fall from glory and eventually team up, settle their differences to become the 1st all Male figure skating couple.
Watch them try to work together. A few laughs which actually are funny but most of the jokes are pretty rubbish.
If your skating fan then your bound to recognise lots of people in this film (and will have no clue who the hell they are if, like me you aren't a skating fan) but I think skating fans will truly hate this.
Ferrall actually manages to make himself bearable for 90% of this film. Jon Heder, better known as Napoleon Dynamite brings nothing to his role and is there on name value alone. He plays the role sounding and acting like Napoleon Dynamite.
He could have at least tried to change his voice a little. Ferrall plays the same role he's played in every movie he's ever been in but has obviously been reigned in by either the writer, producer or director as he isn't as much of an asshole or idiot as he usually is and he actually managed to make me laugh (once, during the entire film).
The film isn't really all that funny, it's a case of disengage brain and watch. Forget the fact that 2 men would never be allowed to compete like this, forget that they would most likely have to qualify to even appear in their 1st event that got them to the winter sport games.
The ending (where they fly out of the arena) totally ruined the entire film, making a mildly bearable film totally ridiculous.
Will Ferrall fans will love it.