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Other skating stars on hand are Nancy Kerrigan, Brian Boitano, Dorothy Hamill, Peggy Fleming and Sasha Cohen (getting the honor of catching Michaels's jock strap - in the face), but they are never seen on ice nor in frame with the actors. Nelson gives a slightly disturbed spin to his determined Coach and skating star Scotty Hamilton and his commentator partner Jim Lampley get totally engaged in the silliness. Their routines are hilarious, particularly their last, an aggressively tasteless number involving JFK and Marilyn. Arnett works the physical stuff, a visual joke posed on a bear rug, while Poehler works the facial expressions, a scheming ice queen. Also terrific are real-life marrieds Arnett and Poehler, who let us see a simmering incestuous passion barely kept at bay. The filmmakers use cliches like the straight guy's gay ick factor and shots to the groin, but Ferrell and Heder work them for titters rather than groans. Heder's amusing going hissy and prissy, but his first kiss scene with Fischer is one of the film's few flatlines. It's Ferrell who does most of the heavy lifting, though, first winning the 'boy' position with Coach, but also working his lines BLADES OF GLORY, his lack of education coming out in a slow build that is both silly and sympathetic. Heder and Ferrell are perfectly paired here, the former all blond ringleted innocence, the latter throwing his dubiously toned physique around as sex personified. As the ickily close Stranz and Fairchild plot to use Katie to their advantage, Coach aspires to pull off the lion lotus, an insanely dangerous pairs move he developed, with MacElroy and Michaels. They're also being targeted by reigning brother and sister champs, Stranz (Will Arnett, TV's "Arrested Development," "Let's Go to Prison") and Fairchild Van Waldenberg (SNL's Amy Poehler, "Mean Girls"), whose downtrodden younger sister Katie (Jenna Fischer, TV's "The Office") sparks with the sexually inexperienced MacElroy.
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Soon the battling pair are training in a cold storage warehouse, trying to meld their opposing styles both on and off the ice. Nelson, "The Family Stone") spies lifts and throws in their hurls and blows. MacElroy's approach to Michaels at the Grublets show ends up in fisticuffs yet again, but when their brawl is broadcast, MacElroy's former Coach (Craig T. MacElroy's stalker Hector (Nick Swardson, "Click," "Reno 911!: Miami") continues to haunt him, even though he's embarrassed by Jimmy's has-been status, and it is Hector who finds the loophole that could return his obsession to stardom. After the melee that sets the Worlds' mascot on fire, Michaels works as a skating wizard in a kiddie show, getting drunk and hitting on the ice fairies, while MacElroy, 'de-adopted' by his dad, is reduced to working as a sports store shoe clerk. MacElroy's the adopted son of billionaire Darren MacElroy (William Fichtner, "Crash," "The Longest Yard"), a man who obsesses with training perfect athletes (underdeveloped as a character and dropped from the film), while Michaels touts himself as a 'lone wolf,' a man with four national championships and one porn film under his belt. MacElroy and Michaels are introduced as the extremest of opposites in typical sports bio form, with Heder gliding about in an outrageous peacock costume complete with beak hand and tail feathers (costumer designer Julie Weiss, "Hollywoodland," should be put on awards lists now) and Ferrell aflame in yellow and orange, crotch grabbing to rock.
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Veteran funny guy Ben Stiller acts as producer with a script from unknown brothers Jeff and Craig Cox and the feature directing debut of Josh Gordon and Will Speck, and together with an experienced comedic cast, they make the laughs look as easy as the champions do the sport they're skewering. At first, "Blades of Glory" seemed like it would be "Zoolander" on skates, a story of rivals pairing together in a career more commonly associated with the feminine side, but this comedy stands (and falls) on its own.