When bitter figure skating rivals, Jimmy MacElroy and Chazz Michael Michaels, start a brawl after tying for the gold medal, they are both stripped of their medals and banned for life from men’s competition. However, the two manage to beat the system thanks to a loophole that will allow them to skate again: pairs’ competition.
From producer, Ben Stiller, comes this hilarious comedy classic filled with romance, brilliant costumes, skating, vengeance, and ice.
When bitter figure skating rivals, Jimmy MacElroy and Chazz Michael Michaels, start a brawl after tying for the gold medal, they are both stripped of their medals and banned for life from men’s competition. However, after three years, Jimmy discovers a loophole that will allow him to skate again: pairs’ competition. When his attempts to convince his former coach fail, Jimmy goes off in search of a partner, bumps into Chazz and the two pick up where they left off. When Jimmy’s coach sees the brawl on the news, he becomes convinced that the two would make a gold-winning pair and he bails them out of jail and teams them up for, what everyone dubs, “the sideshow of the century”. Can the guys forget their bitterness and work together to win the gold and keep it this time?
This film used everything at its disposal: the music, the script, the costumes, the choreography, the cast, everything worked so well together. The idea of two men skating together already gets a laugh, but this movie took figure skating to a whole new level and it’s just brilliant.
I have to say, at this point, that the real reason I decided that this film had to be in my collection was because of the music. In particular, two songs that the boys skate to: I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing by Aerosmith and Flash by Queen. Aerosmith and Queen on the same soundtrack! I doesn’t get much better than that!
Will Ferrell stars as Chazz Michael Michaels and he was absolutely hysterical. Will’s a brave guy, he doesn’t mind going over the line and making people squirm and in Blades of Glory he was arrogant, childish, egocentric, aggressive, and just downright genius! This has to be one of my favourite Will Ferrell films.
Jon Heder stars as Jimmy MacElroy and he was the complete opposite from Chazz. He was hygienic, elegant, graceful, innocent, flamboyant, sincere, and his bitter relationship with Chazz was absolutely hysterical.
Starring Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, William Fitchner, Jenna Fischer, and Craig T. Nelson, Blades of Glory is a fantastic film filled with romance, comedy, great skating routines, brilliant costumes, and heaps of comedy. I can watch it again and again and it has actually become our default film whenever we are in doubt about what to watch on a Saturday night. Love it!
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