Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

cegentner This movie has a storyline that you wouldn't think would be one from a Will Ferrell movie. This actor normally plays macho guys with uber masculine personalities and professions, but this film features him as a professional ice skater. He does put a bit of masculinity in his character, which is portrayed in the very first scene with his first performance shown in the movie. This different, yet same, character portrayal by Ferrell was a great change that I enjoyed watching. I also thought it was very interesting to see Ferrell star with Jon Heder in this film. The two actors have particularly different styles when it comes to comedy; Ferrell's is more inappropriate humor, while Heder has more of a weird and quirky style. This film seems to combine these two styles in a hilarious manner, creating a wider range of humor for the audience. The plot of this film was pretty different, but also somewhat basic (they're in a competition, they have rivals, there's a romantic interest). What really makes it hilarious are the unique characters of Jimmy and Chazz, and other characters like the Van Waldenburg siblings, Jimmy's number one fan, and the pair's coach (played by Craig T Nelson). This movie is a very quotable one, and is the perfect mix of Jon Heder's quirky and Will Ferrell's classic humor.

Kingslaay Blades of Glory was an absolute thrill to watch. It takes some intelligence and care to pull off a great comedy and this film certainly does it. The story and direction was great to watch and the cast deliver some of their finest performances. Thoroughly enjoyed and a bit disappointed to see its low rating here on IMDb, guess some folks don't enjoy a big laugh. This film was some of last good films of Will Ferrell as lately his films are quite horrendous and over the top. Blades of glory doesn't try too hard to be funny and ends up hitting it out of the park. The two main cast members have big and different personalities and the film is littered with comedic gold. 8/10

bbewnylorac A beautifully acted and directed film that will be hilarious to anyone who has ever watched an Olympic ice dancing competition. One wonders whether it's far from the truth! Will Ferrell is perfect as the hyper-egotistical superstar Chazz Michael Michaels who, rather predictably for a Ferrell film, has a spectacular fall from grace. He's barred from skating for life, for fighting with rival Jimmy McIlroy (Jon Heder), who is also banned. But McIlroy's nutty stalker, Hector (Nick Swardson) finds a loophole, in that Chazz and Jimmy could try becoming a male- male dancing pair. Almost stealing the show are Amy Poehler and Will Arnett as the Van Waldenberg siblings, the hysterically nasty, incestuous rivals to Chazz and Jimmy. They blackmail their Cinderella-style, sweet younger sister Katie (Jenna Fischer) to do all sorts of evil things to Jimmy and Chazz, but Katie instead falls awkwardly in love with Jimmy. Poehler and Arnett are obviously loving their dastardly roles and I don't know how Ferrell and Heder were able to keep straight faces through all of their own ridiculously silly dialogue and routines. All in all, a very good movie.

tieman64 "Blades of Glory" is a formulaic but funny comedy starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder as a pair of male ice skaters. The plot's "Dodgeball" meets "Cool Runnings" meets "Semi Pro" meets "every Will Ferrell" movie, but Ferrell manages to elevate things somewhat. He plays Chazz Michael Michaels, a crotch-grabbing, man-chest exposing "ice devouring sex tornado". Jon Heder, who took straight faced ridiculousness to remarkable heights in "Napoleon Dynamite", matches Ferrell's brand of dead-pan goofiness blow for blow.There are several epochs of irony, one of which American comedy seems to currently be wallowing in (Ferrell is a caricature of a dopey American, blissfully unaware of how ridiculous he is to the rest of the world). First you had Socratic irony, which was really a form of rhetorical dialogue. From this – saying the opposite of what's true to underline the truth - you'd trace a line from Chaucer, to More, Sidney and Milton, arriving finally at Swift and Austen. Then you had Romantic irony, which was a sort of philosophical tool. German philosopher Karl Schlegel believed that it bestowed a "multiplicity of perspectives" from which the "truth could then be unlocked". Then you had a sort of post WW1 irony which was used as a tool of dissent to highlight the disjunction between, say, patriotic rhetoric and the reality of war. This led to a widespread use of irony as a means of puncturing deceitful propaganda. Up until this point irony always had some moral objective; it offered an overview, serving to cut through accepted wisdom and expose fraudulence. It might say "This belief is wrong", but it doesn't say "All belief is wrong". But then came the era of postmodernity, which trades in postmodern irony. Here, everything is exclusively self-referential, there is always an implication that art is used up (and so justifiably recyclable), and irony is used to undermine all sincerity, all possibility of truth, all emotion, all moral certainty, as well as to kill off the possibility of a meaningful moral position. Irony, then, is indistinguishable from cynicism. It now assert its right to have no position whatsoever. It now says "nothing at all". As Paul de Man pointed out, "this does not make it into an authentic language, for to know inauthenticity is not the same as being authentic." Meanwhile, every comedy coming out of the US wears a badge of goofy irony, satire even, without actually being about anything. These scripts go far beyond making no effort to laughing about their lack of effort. Of course holding Ferrell responsible for a lack of radical comedy is silly, especially when you consider that his "The Other Guys" is pretty much the only watchable mainstream satire about the recent global financial crisis.7.9/10 – Worth one viewing. See Ferrell in "Everything Must Go", based on a Raymond Carver story.