When rival figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) go ballistic in an embarrassing, no-holds-barred fight at the World Championships, they are stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life. Now, three-and-a-half years on, they’ve found a loophole that will allow them to compete: if they can put aside their differences, they can skate together – in pairs’ figure skating.


Will Ferrell’s new movie making formula seems to be to make fun of second tier sports. Last year NASCAR was in his cross-hairs, this year it’s male competitive figure skating. Next year maybe it's competitive Bass fishing? For now, Will has squeezed himself into a pair of tights for Blades of Glory and as you might expect, it’s not pretty. It is however potentially funny.

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