SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Isaac (codfather-84460) Blades of Glory is a film that I loved when I was younger but for those films I usually re watch them and change my mind on them like the Friday The Thirteenth reboot and if you see my review on it, you can easily tell that my thoughts have drastically changed but with this film and I'm a lot older from when I first saw it and I now understand the more mature jokes and general humour used and I still like it a lot.The story is actually quite creative and inventive. The plot centers around two rival men's figure skaters, Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy get banned after fighting after both getting

Emerald Reprobates First things first, I don't care for Will Ferrell in 99% of his movies, that being said this film falls into the 1% category (Far from the rubbish Talladega Nights and pretty close to the excellent Night at the Roxbury). Despite what should be a lame and uninteresting 'sport' to base a movie on I found myself really enjoying the ridiculousness of everything, from the themed outfits and routines to the childish arguments between Ferrell and Heder.This movie is far from perfect but it put a bigger smile on my face than I expected and even made me laugh out loud a few times. Derek.This is a parody of sports films and parody means to make fun of and that's where this film like all other Will Ferrell film fails, it is not in the least bit funny. James. Featured on Episode 56 of The Emerald Reprobates Podcast

orionschwert That is one of the most funniest movies I know. It is rare in these times that I can watch a film over and over again. It is perfectly written, acted and overall very nicely crafted. It is a perfect parody on that ridiculous seriousness of this sport. The lines are so funny and the story is hilarious. Sometimes it hurts my stomach because of the laughing. Here at IMDb's it is completely underrated. Maybe from Dumb&Dumber fans ? I have no idea why this movie is not at least rated around 8 Stars. Because of this movie I watched more Ferrell stuff like -The Anchorman- but as so often, I hardly can smile at most of the Hollywood comedy's. This one is something else and makes me laugh every time I watch it ! I give it a ten out of ten. It's flawless.

tieman64 "Blades of Glory" is a formulaic but funny comedy starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder as a pair of male ice skaters. The plot's "Dodgeball" meets "Cool Runnings" meets "Semi Pro" meets "every Will Ferrell" movie, but Ferrell manages to elevate things somewhat. He plays Chazz Michael Michaels, a crotch-grabbing, man-chest exposing "ice devouring sex tornado". Jon Heder, who took straight faced ridiculousness to remarkable heights in "Napoleon Dynamite", matches Ferrell's brand of dead-pan goofiness blow for blow.There are several epochs of irony, one of which American comedy seems to currently be wallowing in (Ferrell is a caricature of a dopey American, blissfully unaware of how ridiculous he is to the rest of the world). First you had Socratic irony, which was really a form of rhetorical dialogue. From this – saying the opposite of what's true to underline the truth - you'd trace a line from Chaucer, to More, Sidney and Milton, arriving finally at Swift and Austen. Then you had Romantic irony, which was a sort of philosophical tool. German philosopher Karl Schlegel believed that it bestowed a "multiplicity of perspectives" from which the "truth could then be unlocked". Then you had a sort of post WW1 irony which was used as a tool of dissent to highlight the disjunction between, say, patriotic rhetoric and the reality of war. This led to a widespread use of irony as a means of puncturing deceitful propaganda. Up until this point irony always had some moral objective; it offered an overview, serving to cut through accepted wisdom and expose fraudulence. It might say "This belief is wrong", but it doesn't say "All belief is wrong". But then came the era of postmodernity, which trades in postmodern irony. Here, everything is exclusively self-referential, there is always an implication that art is used up (and so justifiably recyclable), and irony is used to undermine all sincerity, all possibility of truth, all emotion, all moral certainty, as well as to kill off the possibility of a meaningful moral position. Irony, then, is indistinguishable from cynicism. It now assert its right to have no position whatsoever. It now says "nothing at all". As Paul de Man pointed out, "this does not make it into an authentic language, for to know inauthenticity is not the same as being authentic." Meanwhile, every comedy coming out of the US wears a badge of goofy irony, satire even, without actually being about anything. These scripts go far beyond making no effort to laughing about their lack of effort. Of course holding Ferrell responsible for a lack of radical comedy is silly, especially when you consider that his "The Other Guys" is pretty much the only watchable mainstream satire about the recent global financial crisis.7.9/10 – Worth one viewing. See Ferrell in "Everything Must Go", based on a Raymond Carver story.