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Blades of Glory
Starring:
Will Ferrel, Jon Heder, Jenna Fischer, William Fictner, Craig
T. Nelson
Directed
by: Josh Gordon
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Bluntly
speaking? Blades of Glory may require diapers (for those
who don’t normally wear them) to view.
You have
to respect a film that will go over the edge and not be afraid
to offend. Not that BoG necessarily offends but it dares to
try…
Rival figure
skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will
Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon
Heder) battle on the ice – literally. For the fisticuffing
affair they are banished from men’ skating forever.
Chazz -
who is basically a rock star on skates with a oozing heading-towards-Meatloaf
body to match his sleazstack sex-appeal - now works at a C-Grade
Icecapades. He's flobbling around a kid’s show as a character
in a fairy play.
Jimmy -
who was disowned by his filthy rich adoptive father immediately
after the ban - now works various low-end retail jobs. His stalker
still hoping to one day dress up in his skin at a party...
Both are
not doing too well post ice skating glory.
Their old
coach (Coach’s Craig
T. Nelson) finds a loop hole in the pro-skater bookies.
He discovers teams don’t have to be made up of a man and
a women.So, if Chazz and Jimmy can stop hating each other long
enough to work out a super technical routine, they may make
it back to the top.
Hilarious
is put in front of plot here – but you won’t mind
a bit.
The high
energy narcissistic Ferrell character bounces off the sloth-like
Abba-esque
Heder’s character. Both ricochet and pummel your funny
bone!
Their nemeses
Will Arnet
and Amy Poehler play over-loving siblings Stranz and Fairchild
Van Waldenberg. They are, shall we say, really into each other.
While "The Office’s"
Jenna Fisher
has a nice off TV role as the dangerously naïve un-skating
little sister, Katie.
Look for
Blunt fave William
Fictner in a brief-but-cool rich dad in mink.
Blades of
Glory is a hoot. And keep an eye wandering around the coach's
house for added set decorator’s giggles.
Snack recommendation:
Sno-cones.
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