alex.moskalyuk

Generally I am not too impressed with Will Ferrell’s recent filmography. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby was tolerable, and one would get a few chuckles here and there, but it was from being a comedy. Stranger Than Fiction is not a movie to remember either. Blades of Glory, however, manages to be a pretty funny movie without a central theme. I was afraid the whole movie was going to be based on the fact of two guys skating as a pair, but the script is heavy with gags here and there, making it overall a quite enjoyable comedy. The movie it mostly reminds me of is Zoolander, except Zoolander wasn’t funny. The same “serious look” into the world of professional skating, with Farrell’s character maintaining the same manly character that Ben Stiller was exhibiting in Zoolander.