Blades doesn't hit the non sequitur heights of Anchorman or Talladega Nights, but the cast is great and several gags hit hard.
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03/30/07
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
81 - 100 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
The sheer dreamy silliness of Will Ferrell’s new comedy, Blades of Glory, carries it for a remarkably long time. Even after the movie starts recycling ideas and turns formulaic with an overextended chase sequence, it’s impossible to dislike.
03/30/07
Two actors with unique personas, Ferrell and Heder make a good combo, delivering winningly funny wordplay and skate moves.
03/30/07
You know those one-joke Saturday Night Live sketches that start to age after six minutes? Blades of Glory is one joke that lasts 93 minutes, costs $11 and could involve sitting next to a guy who retells the movie into his cellphone.
03/30/07
The directors, Will Speck and Josh Gordon, nail the subtext and straight-faced deportment of Ferrell's best movies.
03/30/07
Blades is not quite Talladega Nights on Ice, but it's a lot of fun.
03/30/07
Critics may accuse Ferrell of making a career out of insider sports comedies, with Blades hot on the heels of Talladega Nights, but it's still a funny, well-rounded package that lets the talents of other cast shine, too.
03/30/07
Eventually the film's limitations catch up with it, and you start feeling like you've seen all this before, maybe just not told exactly the same way.
03/30/07
[The directors] haven't quite managed to make Blades of Glory feel that different from most commercial Hollywood comedies -- even with all that help from the sport itself.
03/30/07
Ferrell’s best laugh-out-loud vehicle since Anchorman.
03/30/07
The comedy might stumble as nearly as much as it glides, but there is more than enough sheer, side-splitting absurdity to justify your attention and admission.
03/30/07
Definitely pushes the envelope of crotch jokes and slapstick humor, but there are enough completely original bits that work to recommend it.
03/30/07
Blades of Glory is too broad to be satire and not mean enough by half -- in any case, competitive figure skating already does a pretty good job spoofing itself.
03/30/07
As with the recent hit middle-aged road comedy Wild Hogs, Blades of Glory tries to work maximum comic mileage from heterosexual men's fear of proximity to other men's penises.
03/30/07
"Blades of Glory" sets the stage for outrageous cheesiness from its opening shot when a beautiful four-year-old orphan dressed in a cheap hand-knit body suit skates implausibly well to the tune of Andrea Bocelli's "Con Te Partiro."
03/30/07
Stupid is as stupid does, and 'Blades of Glory' does stupid right.
03/30/07
A gold medal winner with HUGE laughs. Check your brain at the door for this one and you won't be disappointed.
03/30/07
Whatever negative things there are to say about Blades of Glory, it's still funny.
03/30/07
All this talent gives Blades Of Glory high technical marks, but it's the presentation that's less than Olympic.
03/30/07
If Blades of Glory isn't quite a triple-Lutz, nailed-it triumph of a movie, it's still loads of laughs and guaranteed to please audiences everywhere.
03/30/07
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