If they gave Oscars for Best Performance by a Comedic Actor playing an endearingly clueless oaf in a sports comedy... Will Ferrell would be up for the Lifetime Achievement Award by now.
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04/02/07
Blades of Glory (2007)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:25
Rotten:13
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: With a talented cast, Blades of Glory successfully milks its one-joke premise into a feature-length comedy.
Theatrical Release:Mar 30, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $118,153,533
Synopsis: Two comedic heavy hitters, Will Ferrell (ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY) and Jon Heder (NAPOLEON DYNAMITE), join forces to push the boundaries of slapstick with their ice-skating farce,... [More]
Starring: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett
Director: Will Speck, Josh Gordon
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Reviews for Blades of Glory
Top CriticFerrell isn't breaking new ground, but one day -- when he's branching out to play psycho killers and getting in touch with his inner Thespian -- we'll look back on his clowning period and wonder why he would want to do anything else.
03/31/07
Top CriticBlissfully silly, triumphantly tasteless and improbably hilarious.
03/30/07
Top CriticSome of the best lines are featured in the TV commercials, making you wish the premise had lived up to its promise.
03/30/07
Top CriticBlades of Glory is only slightly less funny -- if you ask ignorant old me -- than watching real figure skating. It's your coin.
03/30/07
Top CriticBlades is an acceptable Friday evening diversion, most of which will have run through your system by Saturday morning.
03/30/07
Top CriticThey don't quite nail it.
03/30/07
Top CriticIt's worth the admission price just to watch Ferrell and Heder, both more than 6 feet tall, take turns lifting each other and to see Heder's ankles wrapped around his co-star's neck.
03/30/07
Top CriticBlades of Glory is a feeble satire that doesn't do much that's incisive or interesting, and the tame PG-13 rating keeps the raunchiness in check.
03/30/07
Top CriticDumb with a capital D, Blades of Glory takes its (almost) fleshed-out sketch-comedy idea as far as an ice-skating buddy movie with we're-not-gay jokes and a psycho stalker can go.
03/30/07
Top CriticIt asks the rhetorical question, 'So what's wrong with the idea of a guy-guy pairs team?' On the other hand, Jimmy's butt-strutting in that peacock suit, his mincing walk, play right into the stereotypes that boneheads everywhere love to laugh at.
03/30/07
Top CriticThe sheer dreamy silliness of Will Ferrell’s new comedy, Blades of Glory, carries it for a remarkably long time. Even after the movie starts recycling ideas and turns formulaic with an overextended chase sequence, it’s impossible to dislike.
03/30/07
Top CriticTwo actors with unique personas, Ferrell and Heder make a good combo, delivering winningly funny wordplay and skate moves.
03/30/07
Top CriticYou know those one-joke Saturday Night Live sketches that start to age after six minutes? Blades of Glory is one joke that lasts 93 minutes, costs $11 and could involve sitting next to a guy who retells the movie into his cellphone.
03/30/07
Top CriticThe directors, Will Speck and Josh Gordon, nail the subtext and straight-faced deportment of Ferrell's best movies.
03/30/07
Top CriticBlades is not quite Talladega Nights on Ice, but it's a lot of fun.
03/30/07
Top CriticBlades of Glory is too broad to be satire and not mean enough by half -- in any case, competitive figure skating already does a pretty good job spoofing itself.
03/30/07
Top CriticAs with the recent hit middle-aged road comedy Wild Hogs, Blades of Glory tries to work maximum comic mileage from heterosexual men's fear of proximity to other men's penises.
03/30/07
Top CriticIf Blades of Glory isn't quite a triple-Lutz, nailed-it triumph of a movie, it's still loads of laughs and guaranteed to please audiences everywhere.
03/30/07
Top CriticFerrell scores again in Blades of Glory, a comedy that would not seem to need making.
03/30/07
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