Blades of Glory 2007

Kick Some Ice

6.101 / 10   1688 vote(s)
PG-13
Comedy

When a much-publicized ice-skating scandal strips them of their gold medals, two world-class athletes skirt their way back onto the ice via a loophole that allows them to compete together as a pairs team.

Homepage https://www.paramount.com/movies/blades-glory
Release Date 2007-03-30
Runtime 1h 33m
Directors Josh Gordon, Will Speck, Stefan Czapsky, Peter Kohn, Gary Fiorelli, Doug Coleman, Gary Warshaw, Timothy R. Price
Producers Stuart Cornfeld, John Jacobs, Marty P. Ewing, Ben Stiller, Peter Kohn, Colin O'Reilly, Patrick Esposito, Lara Breay, Randy Starr
Writers Jeff Cox, Craig Cox, John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky, Craig Cox, Jeff Cox, Busy Philipps

Frustrating watch, won't watch again, and can't recommend.

This might be one of the stupidest movie concepts I've ever watched. Not to mention its routed slightly in homophobia which seems like they're doubling down on a problem that men's figure skating is already dealing with.

I'm not into skating, but I can't imagine anyone who is into skating is going to be excited or enjoy the jokes at their expense, so I'm a little lost at who the audience is for this unless it's "people that hate figure skating" and I don't see them watching a figure skating movie.

A lot of the jokes just fall flat, and it's not like they don't know who to structure jokes throughout the story: the villains actually have a well constructed arc, just not a great quality to it.

The characters are mostly unlikable and chaotic, the movie is literally telling them to stop it for half the movie, and by the time it stops I don't care what the characters do until the end.

The best bit was the romantic story arc which was heavily polluted by the rest of the story.

Kamurai

I really thought this movie would be horrible. It was actually a funny and entertaining movie. I swear Will Ferrell can make anything funny. He's one of my favorite actors.

Andre Gonzales