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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
Ferrell isn't breaking new ground, but one day -- when he's branching out to play psycho killers and getting in touch with his inner Thespian -- we'll look back on his clowning period and wonder why he would want to do anything else.
Predictably goofy-minded and off-centered, Blades is a desired guilty pleasure for Ferrell fans that want to park their funnybones at the nearest skating rink.
herky-jerky from beginning to end... an increasingly tiresome string of sight gags about men groping other men, punching each other in the crotch and practicing silly routines.
Blissfully silly, triumphantly tasteless and improbably hilarious.
Top CriticSome of the best lines are featured in the TV commercials, making you wish the premise had lived up to its promise.
Top CriticBlades of Glory is only slightly less funny -- if you ask ignorant old me -- than watching real figure skating. It's your coin.
Blades is an acceptable Friday evening diversion, most of which will have run through your system by Saturday morning.
Even with a few extra pounds, he's comic grace on ice.
A silly spoof that's often unexpectedly sweet.
They don't quite nail it.
It's worth the admission price just to watch Ferrell and Heder, both more than 6 feet tall, take turns lifting each other and to see Heder's ankles wrapped around his co-star's neck.
On ice, the movie is often fairly funny. Off it, the garish outfits, the genitalia jokes, the beer-slob gags about gays, the women as cheap laughs, even the cute guest cameos start to shiver and melt.
Equal parts inspiration, perspiration and hairspray, Blades of Glory is silly and enjoyable but not as consistently funny as Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Ferrell's last sports spoof.
[Will Ferrell's] new film is easily on a par with [his] earlier efforts.
Blades of Glory is a feeble satire that doesn't do much that's incisive or interesting, and the tame PG-13 rating keeps the raunchiness in check.
If there was an Olympics for purely fun movies, this would skate away with one of those pretty medals.
Dumb with a capital D, Blades of Glory takes its (almost) fleshed-out sketch-comedy idea as far as an ice-skating buddy movie with we're-not-gay jokes and a psycho stalker can go.
Blades of Glory is directed by the two guys who make the Geico caveman commercials. They haven't made a first-rate Ferrell comedy, but they do understand the kind of absurdism and physical comedy prized by his fans.
It asks the rhetorical question, 'So what's wrong with the idea of a guy-guy pairs team?' On the other hand, Jimmy's butt-strutting in that peacock suit, his mincing walk, play right into the stereotypes that boneheads everywhere love to laugh at.
Silly as a drag queen convention and subtle as an un-flushed toilet, Blades of Glory is everything you'd hope for in a Will Ferrell comedy.
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