While I still think Will Ferrell is a hilarious guy, these Blades are disappointingly dull.
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04/04/07
Blades of Glory (2007)
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Reviews Counted:178
Fresh:122
Rotten:56
Average Rating:6.2/10
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
41 - 60 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
"Blades of Glory" is not a great comedy but one with enough laughs, skating action and attitude to amuse its audience...
04/04/07
Blades of Glory has the sport's absurd elements down cold and skates by on Ferrell's comic bluster. Even the French judge would agree.
04/04/07
You know something's amiss in 'Blades of Glory' when ringside commentators Scott Hamilton and Jim Lampley have the best lines.
04/04/07
Together, though, [Ferrell and Heder] strike enough sparks to earn a 5.8 for artistic interpretation and a 6.0 for effort.
04/03/07
It has taken the world’s best James Lipton imitator almost a decade to hit number one at the box office. Credit movie screen experience and perfectly matched material.
04/02/07
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.
04/02/07
Top CriticA star-studded broad comedy designed to make you forget your cares and have 93 minutes of good goofy fun. On that level, it succeeds as beautifully as a well-executed triple axle.
04/02/07
The plot is extremely thin but a spoof of ice skating was inevitable, and I'm glad Ferrell is the one to do it.
04/02/07
Some scenes are funny, some not. That balance ought rate a flat out B, but there were a handful of scenes that were so funny that they tied me in knots, so... B
04/01/07
That's Craig T. Nelson. 'Hey Craig, where have you been? I was beginning to think your career was built on an ancient Indian burial ground!'
04/01/07
The Ferrell Formula has by now got most of its kinks worked The film takes aim at a particular career choice, the protagonist exposes his body and utterly unrockable worldview, and the costar(s) surrender to Ferrellworld, wherein conventional masculinity
04/01/07
Light and silly, and maybe not on a level with Ferrell's funniest work, but still entertaining.
04/01/07
...it's funnier than Wild Hogs, which is about as ringing an endorsement as I'm capable of these days.
04/01/07
It may be ice, but Will Ferrell is on fire. That's right, I said it.
03/31/07
There are some clever and raunchy sight gags, but after a fast start Blades of Glory loses its edge.
03/31/07
This silly, satirical comedy glides in, skating on thin ice.
03/31/07
You need a perfectly timed double take to work with Will Ferrell, and Jon Heder thankfully possesses a formidable one.
03/31/07
The filmmakers wisely surrounded themselves with people who know how to wring solid belly laughs out of a paper-thin premise.
03/31/07
Blades Of Glory does what a good Ferrell vehicle is supposed to do -- it strings enough good bits together to keep the tissue-paper story from tearing, and it comes in at 90 minutes. And that's as close to sticking the landing as it's going to get.
03/31/07
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