The feature-length scripting-directing debut of "Orange Is the New Black" staff writer Sian
Heder offers juicy roles not only to Page but also to Allison Janney and Tammy Blanchard, In a strong showcase of female talent both behind and In front of the camera.
But it's to the credit of Will Ferrell and Jon
Heder, the brave and victorious stars, and the directorial team of Josh Gordon and Will Speck, that this emerges as a consistently funny and very fresh movie.
AT the conclusion of the world figures kating championships, sworn rivals Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon
Heder) clash on the winner's podium and are subsequently stripped of their medals and banned from the sport for life.
NEITHER Will Ferrell nor co-star Jon
Heder cover themselves in much glory in Blades of Glory, one of the most ridiculous comedies it has been my misfortune to see for some while.
He plays figure-skating champ Chazz Michael Michaels, self-styled "ice-devouring sex tornado" and the sworn enemy of golden-boy orphan Jimmy MacElroy (Jon
Heder).
THE STARS: Will Ferrell, Jon
Heder, Jenna Fischer, Craig T Nelson.
Todd Phillips's film is blessed with winning performances from Jon
Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) as the hapless hero, and Billy Bob Thornton as his scheming mentor.
Jon
Heder, Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jacinda Barrett, Sarah Silverman, Horatio Sanz, Todd Louiso, Matt Walsh.
Comedy favourites Will Ferrell and Jon
Heder team-up to take the ice-skating world by storm in a screwball satire that'll have anyone with a funnybone falling off their chair with delight.
In order to reverse the saddo nature of his life, Roger (
Heder) enrols in a bullying self-help group run by no-nonsense Dr P (Thornton).
The same can't be said for this weak remake starring Jon
Heder and Billy Bob Thornton.