As with many Saturday Night Live skits that have become movies, they tend to be one joke movies. This movie is not from a skit, yet is a one joke movie basically laughing at the stereotype that figure skating is a gay sport. Heder prances around as the most feminine straight guy and Ferrell is a sex-o-holic who only thinks of himself. I can deal with low-brow movies, but they must at least be funny to be worth recommending. A movie like Zoolander makes Stiller out to be the feminine hot guy runway model as that movie also tries to joke about modeling being gay, but that movie does it in such a way that it is funny and you are actually rooting for Stiller to win in the end.

Zoolander gives us the anticipation of Magnum, the new “look” Stiller’s character has been working on since his amazing Blue Steel. That moment is exceedingly hilarious when we find it is the same exact look and Ferrell’s character in that movie is pissed that he is the only one that notices it is the same look. In Blades of Glory, Ferrell and Heder are to do the skating move never been done before, the Iron Lotus. When they finally complete this move, as if they weren’t going to, it is supposed to be climactic but instead it only presents the viewer with the relief that this movie has finally come to an end.

Ferrell was bothersome in his over the top character in Zoolander, a more realistic buffoon in Old School, a hilarious exaggerated newsman in Anchorman, although not so real Nascar Driver in Talladega Nights, and now with Blades of Glory, Ferrell has sunken to a new low. The script is bad and his overacting as if this is a 90 minute skit is tiresome. If Ferrell wants to regain his comic glory, he needs to get back to roles like Anchorman when he wants to play an exaggerated comic character or play the more realistic people he’s played in Old School and Stranger Than Fiction. Elf may have been his biggest delight.

If you’re a fan of Ferrell, you will likely be disappointed by Blades of Glory. Not worth renting, or even spending 2 hours on free TV. You’re better off watching the lamest realty show than spending time watching these two jokers try and be funny.