The most stupid film I've seen in two months and I wouldn't change a second of it. Not perfection like Kingpin but belly-laugh brilliant and worth watching just to see Will Ferrell in a leotard.
The acting is all hammed and the ice-skating is hilarious. It works because it doesn't try too hard, they know you'll laugh just looking at the screen.
Yes the plot is retarded but there actually is one. Two vicious ice-skating rivals have to share Gold in Stockholm. They fight on the podium and are banned for life. Four years later one works in a shoe shop and the other is a drunk in one of those "On Ice" shows. The Stalker of one points out that there is nothing stopping him from entering the pairs tournament in Montreal.
Yes you guessed it, the two old rivals become the world's first all-male ice-skating pair. The mutual loathing provides some fantastic nut-shrinking physical humour and of course this leads to them actually ice-dancing together at which point I had snot shooting out my nose.
The competing team could have been more developed as comedy characters. Will Arnett (Gob from Arrested Development) is a bit wasted in it but he has some good one-liners.
It's crass, silly and utterly harmless. If they got rid of the whole silly "sex-addict" plot-line, you could show it to a five year old. I'd happily watch it again.
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