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| Will Ferrell and Jon Heder peacock it out on this poster for Josh Gordon and Will Speck's Blades of Glory |
QUICK REVIEW:
In an alternative reality, ice figure skating is the biggest thing in sports, and the two leading male single ice skaters get excluded from the sport after a scandal. Albeit only to return, - as a pair!
Glory is pretty much an ice skating version of the Ben Stiller-starring Dodgeball (2004) (Stiller was also one of the producers of Blades of Glory). But Glory isn't quite as much fun.
By all means, there are laughs; a movie about a male figure skating pair in a variety of overly silly skating outfits could hardly be totally un-amusing, and Will Ferrell (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)) is pretty funny, although this isn't one of his best films. But his buddy in the film is played by an unfunny Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite (2004)), and the style of it simply seems too copied.
Still in all, especially at this particular time in age, the time of the deeply bizarre Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, - what better way to celebrate winter sports than to refuse to watch the Russian idiocy and watch Blades of Glory instead?
The film is directed by a male directing pair, which is a little fun fact; Josh Gordon and Will Speck (The Switch (2010)).
Anyway here's a couple of stills from the ridiculous skating acts that Ferrell and Heder perform in this sports farce comedy. Click to enlarge.
Related reviews:
Will Ferrell: Anchorman: The Legend Continues (2013) - Decent sequel with several laughs
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) - Burgundy reigns supreme
Watch the fun trailer for the movie here
Budget: Between 53-61 mil. $
Box office: 145.7 mil. $
= Big hit
What do you think of Blades of Glory?
And of the Russian Winter Olympics 2014?
Which is weirder?
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