Starring: - Will Ferrell
- Jon Heder
- Amy Poehler
Description:
Blades of Glory may well be the Will Ferrell movie for people who don't like Will Ferrell movies. It's hard to believe, since an outlandish sports comedy where the SNL-vet plays a slovenly egomaniac probably sounds like the quintessential Ferrell-flick. But where movies like Anchorman and Talladega Nights--and even non-Ferrell sports comedies like Dodgeball--depend on comedian improvisation, and on scenes in the script that delve into the truly bizarre, Blades of Glory actually sticks fairly rigidly to its story.
This has its benefits: Ferrell rarely indulges in his usual uncontrollable rants and while he may be treading on fairly well-worn territory with his character, it's a persona that works well for him. Likewise, John Heder finds success in a role that's quite opposite to Napoleon Dynamite, playing a dainty and elegant figure skater with a mane of blonde, Leif Garrett like curls (though you'll catch him slipping into the Dynamite voice here and there, like a suppressed foreign accent). Unfortunately, while these concessions may tone down the elements that don't agree with non-fans of the cast, they also rob the movie of what many viewers are looking for. Co-stars Amy Poehler and Will Arnett are surely capable of extreme hilarity as an uncomfortably close rival brother-sister skating team, but the script provides them little dialogue besides words to further the plot, and we're even gypped out of seeing the entirety of their Olympic skating routine as Marilyn Monroe and JFK. The Office's Jenna Fischer is as adorable on screen as ever, but she's given little opportunity to utilize her great comic timing (though we're offered the consolation prize of seeing her in a bustier).
There are plenty of funny moments, most of them dependent on the homoeroticism of male-male pairs skating--which you can't really claim you didn't see coming. There are also, somewhat surprisingly, a number of skating in-jokes; pretty much every prominent American skater from the past 30 years makes an appearance, and you might notice that the secret, experimental move in Ferrell and Heder's routine is the exact same one from 1992's The Cutting Edge--though it's much more impressive here, where we're given shady footage of it previously only being legal in North Korea. In the end, Blades of Glory has what its target audience is looking for, it just doesn't have a lot of it.
1. Capture The Dream - (Exclusive Dialog From The Film)
2. Blades Of Glory - Bo Bice
3. Aftershave And Taco Meat - (Exclusive Dialog From The Film)
4. Stroke, The - Billy Squier
5. We Let Down The Funky Bunch - (Exclusive Dialog From The Film)
6. Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch
7. I See You Got Fat - (Exclusive Dialog From The Film)
8. Hot Blooded - Foreigner
9. This Guy Could Not Hold My Jock - (Exclusive Dialog From The Film)
10. Dance Sucka - T. Ray
11. Freight Train From Hell - (Exclusive Dialog From The Film)
12. Rock You Like A Hurricane - Scorpions
13. Lady Humps - (Exclusive Dialog From The Film)
14. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
15. Night Vision Goggles - (Exclusive Dialog From The Film)
16. Olympiad - Fredrick Fennell & The Cleveland Symphonic Winds
17. Louis Armstrong - (Exclusive Dialog From The Film)
18. Slide And Dice - Theodore Shapiro
19. Snow Cones - Theodore Shapiro
20. Blades Of Glory - Theodore Shapiro
21. Mind Bottling - (Exclusive Dialog From The Film)
22. Xanadu - Olivia Newton-John
Blades of Glory
