Blades of Glory

Theatrical Release Date: 2007 03 30 (USA)

UPC: 097361310640

Studio: DreamWorks Home Entertainment

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Adult Humor, Profanity, Drug Content]

Summary: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, and Will Arnett headline this high-concept comedy concerning two male figure-skating rivals aching to compete despite having been banned from the sport. Their medals stripped after getting into a highly publicized fight at the World Championships, star figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Heder) are barred from ever competing in the sport again. Upon discovering a loophole that will allow them to perform together in the pairs figure skating category, the two athletes determine to put their differences aside in order to pursue their gold medal aspirations. Amy Poehler, Jenna Fischer, Craig T. Nelson, and Rob Corddry co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: Deleted scenes
Gag reel
Alternate takes
Behind-the-scenes featurettes

Blades of Glory

Format: DVD

Release Date: 08/28/2007

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Alternate Wide Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 93 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Blades of Glory
1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12

Cammila Collar

Blades of Glory may well be the Will Ferrell movie for people who don't like Will Ferrell movies. It's hard to believe, since an outlandish sports comedy where the SNL vet plays a slovenly egomaniac probably sounds like the quintessential Ferrell flick. But where movies like Anchorman and Talladega Nights -- and even non-Ferrell sports comedies like Dodgeball -- depend on comedian improvisation, and on scenes in the script that delve into the truly bizarre, Blades of Glory actually sticks fairly rigidly to its story. This has its benefits; Ferrell rarely indulges in his usual uncontrollable rants, and while he may be treading on fairly well-worn territory with his character, it's a persona that works well for him. Likewise, Jon Heder finds success in a role that's quite the opposite of Napoleon Dynamite, playing a dainty and elegant figure skater with a mane of blonde, Leif Garrett-like curls (though you'll catch him slipping into the Dynamite voice here and there, like a suppressed foreign accent). Unfortunately, while these concessions may tone down the elements that don't agree with non-fans of the cast, they also rob the movie of what many viewers are looking for. Co-stars Amy Poehler and Will Arnett are surely capable of extreme hilarity as an uncomfortably close rival brother-sister skating team, but the script provides them little dialogue besides words to further the plot, and we're even cheated out of seeing the entirety of their skating routine as Marilyn Monroe and JFK. The Office's Jenna Fischer is as adorable onscreen as ever, but she's given little opportunity to utilize her great comic timing (though we're offered the consolation prize of seeing her in a bustier). There are plenty of funny moments, most of them dependent on the homoeroticism of male-male pairs skating -- which you can't really claim you didn't see coming. There are also, somewhat surprisingly, a number of skating in-jokes; pretty much every prominent American skater from the past 30 years makes an appearance, and you might notice that the secret, experimental move in Ferrell and Heder's routine is the exact same one from 1992's The Cutting Edge -- though it's much more impressive here, where we're given shady footage of it, previously only being legal in North Korea. In the end, Blades of Glory has what its target audience is looking for, it just doesn't have a lot of it. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Jeff Cox  Screenwriter 
John L. Jacobs  Producer 
Ben Stiller  Producer 
Marty P. Ewing  Executive Producer 
Stuart Cornfeld  Producer 
Theodore Shapiro  Composer (Music Score) 
Will Speck  Director 
Josh Gordon  Director 
Dave Krinsky  Screenwriter 
John Altschuler  Screenwriter 
Craig Cox  Screenwriter 
Will Ferrell  Actor 
Jon Heder  Actor 
Will Arnett  Actor 
Amy Poehler  Actor 
Jenna Fischer  Actor 
Craig T. Nelson  Actor 
Romany Malco  Actor 
Nick Swardson  Actor 
Rob Corddry  Actor 
William Fichtner  Actor 
Scott Hamilton  Actor 
Andy Richter  Actor 
Greg Lindsay  Actor 
Nick Jameson  Actor 
Tom Virtue  Actor 
Ben Wilson  Actor 
William Daniels  Actor 
Zachary Ferren  Actor 
Rémy Girard  Actor 
Steven M. Gagnon  Actor 
Chris Reed  Actor 
Luciana Carro  Actor 
Nancy Kerrigan  Actor 
Ricardo "Smalls" Strickland  Actor 
Luke Wilson  Actor 
Katharine Towne  Actor 
David Pressman  Actor 
James Michael Connor  Actor 
Craig Gellis  Actor 
Angela Chee  Actor 
Hans Uder  Actor 
Chad Brennan  Actor 
Ethan Burgess  Actor 
Patrick Hancock  Actor 
Tiffany Scott  Actor 
Brian Boitano  Actor 
Dorothy Hamill  Actor 
Peggy Fleming  Actor 
Phil Reeves  Actor 
Molly Marie Clinton  Actor 
Matt Levin  Actor 
Eloise Lynch  Actor 
Fiona Gubelmann  Actor 
Smith Cho  Actor 
James P. Yorke  Actor 
Alysse Alcroft  Actor 
Taylor Neff  Actor 
Wendy Wilke  Actor 
Matt Evers  Actor 
Keith Joe Dick  Actor 
Sunita Param  Actor 
Stephanie Courtney  Actor 
Elliot Cho  Actor 
Loretta Fox  Actor 
Kyle Bornheimer  Actor 
Jim Lampley  Actor 
Sasha Cohen  Actor 
Alison Martin  Actor 
Griffin Armstorff  Actor 
Armen Saakian  Actor 
Akop Manoukian  Actor 
Grant Thompson  Actor 
Kelly Gould  Actor 
Margaret Roblin  Actor 
Lisa Paul  Actor 
Lora Starkman  Actor 
J.D. Cantrell  Actor 
Kerry Rossall  Actor 

Country: USA