The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Rocky Mountain Collegian – Blogs

When Will Ferrell was doing his skits on Saturday Night Live, they would often involve a joke that went on for 5 minutes or so and remained fairly entertaining throughout. If someone told you back then that he was going to take skits such as those and turn them into feature length films, you probably would have laughed your ass off at the mere notion. But here we are, with many movies of this type to his credit, the man seems inclined to continue with his deranged, raunchy escapades on the silver screen.

This time Ferrell takes us to the ice rink for some male figure skating. In Blades of Glory, two rival figure skaters Chaz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) are disqualified from figure skating when they have a fight during their own awards ceremony (burning mascot and all). Years later, they discover a catch in their disqualification and decide to team up and enter as a doubles figure skating team. Of course, hilarity and wacky hijinx ensue.

As simple as these movies always are, I keep a place in my heart for them. I couldn’t help but laugh, even though 50 percent of the jokes were about how both skaters have male genitalia. Ferrell has got this concept down to a science (Talladega Nights was already very good evidence of this). Just when you think he’s done beating something into the ground, he goes one step further to make sure everyone is offended. It really does work and I believe most people will give this one a good chuckle.

Ferrell is the same old Will Ferrell (which is either a plus or a minus depending on how you feel about him) and Jon Heder is a great complement (if you don’t remember Mr. Heder, he was the main character in Napoleon Dynamite). Acting performance isn’t exactly of concern here, as all the actors really just got up on stage and acted as goofy as possible. Production doesn’t seem to be much of a concern either, but no one was really expecting that anyway.

College students in particular will love this one. The movie is obviously designed with younger crowds in mind. It’s a great date movie provided that you and your date can appreciate a little risque humor. If you can’t handle that, then I definitely suggest you stay away from this one. My brain tells me two stars, but my heart says three. We’ll settle.

(2.5 stars)

(We’ll see how much longer Will can keep this up. I hope he can keep it funny for a very long time to come!)