Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 03/30/07 Home Video 08/28/07 MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language, a comic violent image and some drug references Running Time 1 hour 33 minutes Genre Family, Sci-Fi Director Will Speck, Josh Gordon Writer Jeff Cox, Craig Cox, John Altschuler, David Krinsky Cast Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, William Fichtner, Jenna Fischer, Romany Malco, Nick Swardson, Rob Corddry, Craig T. Nelson Studio Dreamworks Pictures |
BLADES OF GLORY
SYNOPSIS
Perhaps nowhere in sports is the marriage of
athleticism and grace more evident than in the
arena of world champion pairs figure skating—the
lifts, the jumps, the routines. The perfect score
results from the perfect blend of strength and
sophistication, prowess and artistry, brawn and
refinement. It’s an elegant world, a rarefied
universe, a noble place populated by the crème de la
crème of skating elite. Well, it used to be …
When the macho, swaggering Chazz Michael
Michaels (Will Ferrell) takes to the rink, he is the
rock star of the arena, leaving a trail of thrashed ice
and shrieking female fans in his wake. The only
competitor who can match Michaels’ scores (on the
ice, that is) is the driven former child prodigy, Jimmy
MacElroy (Jon Heder). Spotted as a youth executing
triple lutzes on the frozen pond of an orphanage,
MacElroy was whisked away to days of endless
training, and now stands as the picture of poise, the
personification of the highest ideals of the men’s
sport.
Michaels and MacElroy have met in finals rounds
before, but their latest head-to-head at the World
Championships—when they tie for first—is more
than either one can bear, and their longstanding
Perhaps nowhere in sports is the marriage of
athleticism and grace more evident than in the
arena of world champion pairs figure skating—the
lifts, the jumps, the routines. The perfect score
results from the perfect blend of strength and
sophistication, prowess and artistry, brawn and
refinement. It’s an elegant world, a rarefied
universe, a noble place populated by the crème de la
crème of skating elite. Well, it used to be …
When the macho, swaggering Chazz Michael
Michaels (Will Ferrell) takes to the rink, he is the
rock star of the arena, leaving a trail of thrashed ice
and shrieking female fans in his wake. The only
competitor who can match Michaels’ scores (on the
ice, that is) is the driven former child prodigy, Jimmy
MacElroy (Jon Heder). Spotted as a youth executing
triple lutzes on the frozen pond of an orphanage,
MacElroy was whisked away to days of endless
training, and now stands as the picture of poise, the
personification of the highest ideals of the men’s
sport.
Michaels and MacElroy have met in finals rounds
before, but their latest head-to-head at the World
Championships—when they tie for first—is more
than either one can bear, and their longstanding
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rivalry erupts into a no-holds-barred fight. The ensuing brawl not only sets fire to the World Championship’
s helpless mascot, but lands both athletes in hot water: Chazz and Jimmy are called before the sport’s
governing board, stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life.
Now, three-and-a-half years later, both men are still trying to find their way in a world without competitive
skating. Michaels has devolved into a drunken party machine, skating as a costumed evil wizard in a
kiddie ice review, and MacElroy has been banished to the shoe department of a chain sporting goods
store.
But then, inspiration (in the form of an over-friendly, former stalker of Jimmy’s) strikes, and a loophole
emerges. To skate again, all Chazz and Jimmy have to do is set aside their long festering hatred of one
another and join forces—as the first male/male figure skating pair to compete in the history of the sport.
… if the sport survives, that is. --©Dreamworks Pictures
s helpless mascot, but lands both athletes in hot water: Chazz and Jimmy are called before the sport’s
governing board, stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life.
Now, three-and-a-half years later, both men are still trying to find their way in a world without competitive
skating. Michaels has devolved into a drunken party machine, skating as a costumed evil wizard in a
kiddie ice review, and MacElroy has been banished to the shoe department of a chain sporting goods
store.
But then, inspiration (in the form of an over-friendly, former stalker of Jimmy’s) strikes, and a loophole
emerges. To skate again, all Chazz and Jimmy have to do is set aside their long festering hatred of one
another and join forces—as the first male/male figure skating pair to compete in the history of the sport.
… if the sport survives, that is. --©Dreamworks Pictures