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06/27/07
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
US 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
Reviews for Blades of Glory
1 - 15 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticThe result proves sadly under-choreographed. And choreography is everything in a film that leans as heavily on slapstick as this one.
06/23/07
Top Criticthis 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.
06/15/07
Top CriticSolid formula that is guaranteed to tickle most everyone's funny bone several times
04/24/07
Top CriticThere is a steady stream of laughs and narrative interest. Blades isn't quite as funny as Zoolander or Dodgeball, but it deserves a solid score from the judges.
04/07/07
Top CriticI can't remember a time when I have laughed so long and hard at a decapitation gag.
04/07/07
Top CriticFormula rules, as Ferrell applies his schtick to another sport. But there’s enough silly spectacle and eye-popping costumes to compensate.
04/06/07
Top CriticIf 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.
04/02/07
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 CriticI'd try to avoid the usual cliche of saying this is a fine 10-minute Saturday Night Live sketch that's padded with another 80 minutes of filler, but if this unclever and mostly unfunny film doesn't bother to put in any effort, why should I?
03/30/07
Top CriticThere may be an overabundance of pain jokes, crotch jokes and painful crotch jokes, but at the end of the program, this farce is the triple axel of comedy.
03/30/07
Top CriticWith Blades of Glory, Will Ferrell and Jon Heder stake an early claim to being the comedy couple of the year.
03/30/07
Top CriticThe movie is at its funniest and most original when zinging the sometimes pretentious milieu of competitive figure skating.
03/29/07
Top CriticTo see seemingly regular guys utterly stripped of dignity and defense is cruel enough, but crueler still is the laughter that you cannot seem to stop from rupturing your lungs and aorta.
03/29/07
Top Critic1 - 15 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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