Figure skating may be beyond parody

Rating: 6/10 (1 February 2014)

Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) was picked out of an orphanage at the age of 4 to train to skate with the money and obsession of Darren MacElroy (William Fichtner). Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) is a renegade rocker figure skater from the Detroit undergrounds. At the Olympics, they tie for first. When they get on the podium, they fight and get banned for life. It's 3 and a half years later. Jimmy has been left on the side of the road by Darren and is toiling away in a sporting goods store. Chazz is drunker than ever skating in a kids show. Then they realize there is a loophole allowing them to skate in another category. After watching them fight again, Coach (Craig T. Nelson) realizes that they make for a great skating pair. They will have to win against the Waldenberg twins skating champs (Will Arnett, Amy Poehler).
Will Ferrell is going all out with a way out there character. Jon Heder is lovely and effeminate. The inappropriate Waldenberg twins played by Will Arnett and Amy Poehler get the most fun. Everybody is trying to one up each other. This is an SNL sketch stretched to its limits. The laughs are too few and far between. I appreciate the effort, but it's more wacky than funny.