Better Than Expected

Rating: 8/10 (14 July 2007)

Lessons I Learned from Blades of Glory: Heder will never win an Oscar, and the night is a dark time for everyone--but not for Alaskans and dudes with night vision goggles. The movie is brought to a higher level of stupid thanks to Ferrell's hilarious performance. Props to him for making his Chazz Michaels--who literally pairs up with Heder's Jimmy MacElroy to win the Olympics after they're banned from singles ice skating--multidimensional in such a comedy. I wish I could say the same for Heder; during the entire movie I was wondering why Napoleon Dynamite was ice skating instead of feeding Tina. Anyway, I wasn't even bugged by the film's ending (similar to a ridiculous one belonging to a 1978 film), because by the end of its two hours my I.Q. had dropped about forty points and life was simply a box of chocolates and shrimp gumbo. Thanks to Ferrell's acting and some so-dumb-they're-funny jokes I realized that films like these feed America's stupidity...and I was okay with it. ***