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 Synopsis:
Ron Burgandy and Napolean
Dynamite play Chaz Micheal
Micheals and Jimmy MacElroy
in Blades of Glory. Wait,
did I say Napoleon &
Burgandy? Well face it Jon
Heder & Will Ferrell, that
IS who you are and you'll
never escape it, especially
when you play the same
character in every film.
Both of you should stop
going back to the same
characters over and over.
Anyways...Chaz & Jimmy get
in a well-choreographed
fight after tying for
Olympic Gold and are
therefore forced into
retiring from professional
men's figure skating. Well
lucky for them a stalker and
a former coach (played by
the TV show Coach's Craig T
Nelson...casting director
dug deep on that one)
conjure up a plan to exploit
a loophole in the rules and
team the two up for paired
figure skating.
The Freak's
Rating: F : Will
Ferrell can make practically
anything funny. His
mannerisms sell the
character and make the
audience laugh. The problem
is that Will is the only
humor in the entire film.
The plot is insanely
repetitive of hundreds of
comedies. The writers of
this movie have four writing
credits between the four of
them and it shows. There is
nothing to enjoy here, and I
really wanted to!
The real problem is that you
can almost see the script in
front of you. It
reads...Scene two - Will
does his thing, Scene three
- Will does his thing, mix
in the chick from The Office
and a couple of SNL alums,
etc...
Now you know with a film
like this the laughs will
come from the gay moves that
figure skaters, especially
men, perform and the
awkwardness of two straight
men doing them together. I'm
childish enough with my
humor to laugh at all of
those. But that isn't enough
for me to ever see the film
again. A side story in the
news on this title was that
this was the first title
that Paramount pulled as a
Blu Ray release (my format
of choice) and released
exclusively on HD DVD. After
seeing it, HD DVD can keep
it!
Suzanne's
Rating: D- : A friend lent me
this movie. Since it was due back to the bookmobile tomorrow, I
just watched it. I had to fast forward through most of it honestly.
I like Will Ferrel movies and I liked Jon Heder in Napoleon Dynamite
so I thought it would be worth watching. NOPE!
Eric's
Rating: F : How
many times have you and your friends quoted this
movie? None? Then what's the point?
Jen's rating: D+
Sebastian's
Rating: C :
actually it was pretty fun, worth renting out i
guess
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