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Blades of Glory (2007)

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Reviews Counted:183

Fresh:127

Rotten:56

Average Rating:6.2/10

Consensus: With a talented cast, Blades of Glory successfully milks its one-joke premise into a feature-length comedy.

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Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual humor, language, a comic violent image and some drug references

Runtime: 1 hr. 33 min.

Genre: Comedy

Theatrical Release: Mar 30, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $118.2M

Synopsis: When rival figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) go ballistic in an embarrassing, no-holds-barred fight... When rival figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) go ballistic in an embarrassing, no-holds-barred fight at the World Championships, they are stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life. Now, three-and-a-half years on, they've found a loophole that will allow them to compete: if they can put aside their differences, they can skatetogether - in pairs' figure skating. [More]

Starring: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler

Starring: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, Jenna Fischer, Craig T. Nelson, Romany Malco, Nick Swardson, Rob Corddry, William Fichtner, Scott Hamilton, Andy Richter, Greg Lindsay, Nick Jameson, Tom Virtue, Ben Wilson, William Daniels, Zachary Ferren, Rémy Girard, Steven M. Gagnon, Chris Reed, Luciana Carro, Nancy Kerrigan, Ricardo "Smalls" Strickland, Luke Wilson, Katharine Towne, David Pressman, James Michael Connor, Craig Gellis, Angela Chee, Hans Uder, Chad Brennan, Ethan Burgess, Patrick Hancock, Tiffany Scott, Brian Boitano, Dorothy Hamill, Peggy Fleming, Phil Reeves, Molly Marie Clinton, Matt Levin, Eloise Lynch, Fiona Gubelmann, Smith Cho, James P. Yorke, Alysse Alcroft, Taylor Neff, Wendy Wilke, Matt Evers, Keith Joe Dick, Sunita Param, Stephanie Courtney, Elliot Cho, Loretta Fox, Kyle Bornheimer, Jim Lampley, Sasha Cohen, Alison Martin, Griffin Armstorff, Armen Saakian, Akop Manoukian, Grant Thompson, Kelly Gould, Margaret Roblin, Lisa Paul, Lora Starkman, J.D. Cantrell, Kerry Rossall

Director: Josh Gordon , Will Speck

Director: Josh Gordon , Will Speck , Will Speck & Josh Gordon
Screenwriter: Craig Cox , Jeff Cox , John Altschuler , David Krinsky
Producer: Ben Stiller , John Jacobs , Stuart Cornfeld
Studio: Paramount Pictures

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Thin, monotonous

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
Aug 27, 2009
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

No guts and no glory, and not much in the way of comedy, either.

Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
Apr 23, 2009
Peter Keough
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

This really shouldn't have taken five writers and two directors, especially considering the splendor costume designer Julie Weiss achieves all by herself. But it's not bad for such a thoroughly unitarded concept.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
Aug 7, 2008
Jonathan Kiefer
Jonathan Kiefer
Sacramento News & Review

Blades of Glory doesn't get the gold, in fact, I think they just miss out on the bronze.

Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review | comment 2 Comments
Mar 3, 2008
Jeff Bayer
Jeff Bayer
The Scorecard Review

Great fun!

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment Comment
Sep 28, 2007
JoBlo
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

I can't imagine what circumstances would lead me to watch the film, in its entirety, a second time. But I'm glad I saw it once.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
Sep 20, 2007
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

...humorous fluff at best but formulaic and predictable.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
Aug 27, 2007
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Sketch comedy stretched to its maximum length, and while it's good fun, like that big dumb goof in every high school class, it comes oh-so-close to wearing out its welcome.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
Aug 25, 2007
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

A no harm-no foul feelgood flick where everybody gets an 11th hour dispensation since Jimmy was really straight all along.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
Aug 25, 2007
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

A painless if unremarkable night out, lifted considerably by the over-the-top skating sequences.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
Jul 23, 2007
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Ferrell doesn't need a great script or direction to be funny. The man just is funny.

Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
Jul 14, 2007
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

Slight, but amusing vulgar comedy.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
Jul 2, 2007
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

Blades of Glory is funny, and that's all that matters.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment 1 Comment
Jun 25, 2007
Todd Gilchrist
Todd Gilchrist
IGN Movies

The result proves sadly under-choreographed. And choreography is everything in a film that leans as heavily on slapstick as this one.

Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
Jun 23, 2007
Sandra Hall
Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald

na tankom ledu

Full Review Source: Index.hr | comment Comment
Jun 22, 2007
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
Index.hr

this wacky comedy simply glides over the ice, never falling in the cracks or tumbling off course. Heder plays the angelic-faced blonde-mopped former child protégée ... and Ferrell is the sex addicted Tsunami of Swagger, thrown unwillingly together.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
Jun 15, 2007
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile

It's silly and fun with real figure skating personalities involved... they add a bonus dimension to the jokes (like throwing in a double toe-loop after landing a triple axle).

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
May 28, 2007
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

l'enjouement et la constance avec lesquelles cette connerie nous ait déblatérée la rendent désopilante pour les bonnes raisons

Full Review Source: Panorama | comment Comment
May 19, 2007
Jean-François Vandeuren
Jean-François Vandeuren
Panorama

We'll keep tolerating Ferrell as long as he throws in a 'Stranger Than Fiction' or 'Elf' every now and again.

Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | comment 3 Comments
May 8, 2007
Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

An elongated comedy sketch, without any depth or development.

Full Review Source: Oregon Herald | comment Comment
May 7, 2007
Mark Sells
Mark Sells
Oregon Herald
 
 
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