Blades of Glory

Blades of Glory is an American film comedy about figure skating by Josh Gordon and Will Speck from the year 2007.

Action

In the fictional world Winter Games in 2002, in Montreal, Canada (based on the Winter Olympics ) the common single run Chazz Michael Michaels Master and Jimmy MacElroy are excluded from the individual competitions of men because of a fight forever. After three and a half years, they decide to put aside their differences and join forces in by exploiting a loophole in the rules. It turns out that there is a category in which they are allowed to compete both: in pair skating. This event is usually reserved for opposite-sex couples and the two expected a tough competition. The brother - sister team of Stranzberg and Fairchild Van mountain forest, which is the hitherto undisputed winner team of the pair run also heard the competition. The van forest hill will stop at nothing to turn off the two rivals. Finally, they persuaded her little sister Katie, who, meanwhile, has begun a romance with Jimmy, Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy them against each other. After this first successful on rather unfortunate way, Fairchild van Waldsberg Jimmy explains more or less by accident when she imprisons him to the finals in the winter sports arena in a toilet cubicle. Meanwhile, Chazz Stranzberg of being chased. Finally, however, it is possible both Jimmy and Chazz to appear on time in the arena. Finally, they also win gold, as they perform the dangerous "Iron Lotus ", although Chazz has to complete by the intrigues of the van mountain forest with a broken ankle.

Real skaters on set

  • Sasha Cohen - Themselves
  • Scott Hamilton - as Himself / Commentator
  • Peggy Fleming - judge
  • Brian Boitano - judge
  • Dorothy Hamill - judge
  • Nancy Kerrigan - judge
  • Chad Brennan - Will Ferrell's skating double
  • Patrick Hancock - Will Ferrell's skating double
  • Ethan Burgess - Jon Heder ice -Double
  • Tiffany Scott - Amy Poehlers Skating Double
  • Judy Blumberg - Amy Poehlers Coach
  • Sarah Kawahara - choreographer

Background

  • The shooting was interrupted for a short period, as Jon Heder broke his ankle during a skating training for the film.
  • The figure skating scenes were filmed in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.
  • Jimmy's peacock costume is a parody of Johnny Weir's The Swan costume. He said that he was " flattered " from this parody.
  • The Iron Lotus is a parody of The Cutting Edge. Both figures are physically impossible.

Criticism

Marjorie Baumgarten writes in the Austin Chronicle: " Blades of Glory - though slightly amusing, the film has the unpleasant musty smell of a pitcher who is once too often gone to the well: let's put on Ooh, we Ferrell as an elf - or a moderator or a NASCAR drivers - and see what happens. "

For Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal the other hand, the film is " delightfully silly, triumphantly tasteless and incredibly funny. " The website rottentomatoes.com gives the film, based on 35 reviews, the note 64 of 100 and, based on audience voting, the Grade 7.1 of 10

The judges of the International Encyclopedia of the film: " The quite solid staged farce avoids obvious jokes about homosexuality and largely maintains a good mood thanks to the two convincing actors. "

German DVD release

2007 in film Screenplay Ben Stiller Stuart Cornfeld Film score Richard Pearson (film editor) Winter Olympic Games Metacritic
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