This movie had some crude humour, that may not be appropriate for younger viewers, but it was a hilarious movie. I usually find Will Ferrell movies to be a disappointment, but this one was definitely funny. Will Arnett and Amy Poehler as skating's golden couple are the best part.
Blades of Glory
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Common Sense says
Spandex, stereotypes, and Will Ferrell on ice.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 13–15
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Blades of Glory was written by Cynthia Fuchs
Parents need to know that this Will Ferrell comedy has lots of verbal and sight jokes about sex, homosexuality, drinking, and drugs. There are goofy-but-sometimes-violent physical gags (like a decapitation that features obvious use of a mannequin and fake blood) and ads for sponsored products. Characters fight, get cut by skate blades, shoot harpoons (one hits a mascot in the head and scares screaming children), and do some painful-looking stunts on the ice (splits, falls, ice burns). Figure skating's foppish reputation is skewered repeatedly, with over-the-top spandex costumes, poofy hair, make-up, and histrionic ice dancing. It's especially evident when the two main characters team up to form a spandex-clad male-male pair who hold hands, perform lifts, and accidentally grab and kick each other's crotches. Language includes repeated uses of "sucks," "damn," "s--t," and "ass."
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What’s the Story?
Cocky ice-skating superstar Chazz Michael Michaels Will Ferrell shocks the sports world when he teams up with pretty boy and acclaimed men's singles champion Jimmy (Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder) in BLADES OF GLORY, a veritable "Odd Couple On Ice." After Chazz butts heads with Jimmy, the two bitter rivals are banned from future competition. That is, until Jimmy's most dedicated stalker-fan (Nick Swardson) comes up with the bright idea that they re-enter the circuit as a pair. The idea is so preposterous and yet so obvious -- after all, figure skating has such a "gay" reputation -- that it makes everyone nervous, including fellow skaters who worry about their own hetero-masculine reps. And yet, the guys' coach (Craig T. Nelson) soon has them doing lifts and leaps that no mixed-sex pair can manage (including goofily immature homophobic/homoerotic gags like repeated crotch grabs and a doubled faces-in-crotches pose). Chazz and Jimmy's success ignites the ire of siblings/reigning champs Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, who scheme to ruin their rivals.
Is It Any Good?
As pleased with itself as any other Will Ferrell comedy, BLADES OF GLORY targets buddy and sports movie conventions, and -- oh yes -- ponders the implied "gayness" of figure skating. Ferrell is loudly ridiculous and oversized, both figuratively and literally -- he gained weight for the part, with his eyes receding into his fleshy face and his belly stretching his spandex costumes. It's all meant to illustrate Chazz's prodigious ego and appetites. More a series of gags than a properly plotted story, Blades of Glory does offer a couple of very funny bits, including one in which a speedy chase on skates down a frozen river leads Chazz and Stranz to the shore. Their rage and fierceness are suddenly stymied, as they must walk -- legs bending and figures contorting as they wobble on their blades -- across a street, across a linoleum floor, and up an escalator.
But as clever as such physical business can be, the film's overwhelming focus is the sexuality anxiety signified by figure skating. While the movie does give Jimmy the requisite heterosexualizing girlfriend (The Office's Jenna Fischer), all that really matters is the pair. Will they make it? You get one guess.
Movie Details
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures, Director: Will Speck
Run time: 93 minutes
Theatrical release: 03/29/2007, DVD release: 08/28/2007
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language, a comic violent image and some drug references.
Run time: 93 minutes
Theatrical release: 03/29/2007, DVD release: 08/28/2007
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language, a comic violent image and some drug references.
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I rate this title on for age 14 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
Hilarious, by far Will Farrell's best movie
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I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Great movie, just have to be mature about content.
I have this movie recorded on TV and I've watched it seven times this week. You have to be mature about the content really. I just wish that the one scene where Jimmy slides on his chest was a little less... bloody.
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I rate this title on for age 11 and give it
Funny ice skating movie that will leave you laughing
Blades of Glory is a movie that will keep you laughing every time you see it. Will Ferrell and Jon Heder play rival ice skaters Jimmy Macelroy (Jon Heder) and Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) who are competing in the mens singles competition in stockholm. when they get tied scores on their routines they have a brawl fight on the podium leaving both of them being stripped of their medals and banned from mens singles for the remiander of their lives. but the only way that they can come back into skating is to become a male-male pairs team. This movie is funny but has a lot of sexual innuendo and humor. this movie will make you laugh till you cry your eyes out
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I rate this title on for age 14 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
Loved It!
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I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
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I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give it
- My concerns are:
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
for pre teens
Great movie but Chazz drinks so much! He gets drunk all the time. But otherwise it was hillarious.
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I rate this title pause for age 14 and give it
Funny
14- 16 if your that age watch it
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I rate this title pause for age 14 and give it
very rude but hillarious
this movie is so funny i saw it when i was twelve and i couldnt stop laughing but it is quite rude so i give it a pause on 14 and up
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
Even though dumb, the movie had a good moral to it at the end. The working together and Katie is not a whore thing. Good friendship.
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
funny film
i like it but it is innapropro. go if your 12 or up
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Hilarious
This is a great movie!
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I rate this title on for age 0 and give it
Funny
Nothing really to important for parents to keep an eye on. there was a part when a girl got decapitated and ya that was kinda scary. my little 8 year old brother went with us to watch it and there was no problem with him. i think this is good for ages 10 or 9+.
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I Watch This Movie WAY Too Much
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! Umm But If Youre Still In Elementrey I Wouldent Watch It.
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I rate this title pause for age 0 and give it
Filthy and Funny
I'll be honest--I'd let my 11 year old watch this, but he's also seen Anchorman, and the language is not much different. I do understand why a parent would not allow younger kids to see this--it IS filthy, but it's funny. Know your kid and know your tolerance for what they see--watch it first yourself--that's what I do when I wonder whether or not to let my son watch a movie!
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I rate this title pause for age 0 and give it
A couple laughs
Will Ferrell is a great comedic actor, but this movie pushed his limits to the max. Jon Header was actually pretty funny, but nothing like he was in Napoleon Dynamite. Lots of sexual talk that may make kids uncomfortable while watching with parents. Definately not for kids. ...I'm still getting over the shock that that was Pam Beesly playing Katy.
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Spandex, Sex and Raunchy
This movie is not only crude and mean it is bad.
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