The FiFi Report 174

Blades of Glory …Directed by Will Speck
Genre: Slapstick sports Comedy
Who: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett
The Plot: America 2006: Will Ferrell is ‘a loud-talking, ego-swelling, hard-partying sex-addict Champion Ice skater’. Napoleon Dynamite is his rival. An innocent, cherub-faced, pretty boy with a famous, pompous hairdo. They have a big punch up. Both banned from Skating for life. Find a loop hole so they can team up and WIN. Now it’s a Guy + Guy team. No one has ever seen two men skating like this. (Except at the Mardi Gras). Rival Baddies don’t like it. Try to sabotage the snazzy Guy + Guy team. Crazy sex addict and the sweet faced virgin Argue and skate. Argue and Skate. Repeat. Finally become friends. Go for the Gold. The end
Acting:Excellent comedy. Will Ferrell and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) are hilarious.
Photography: Snazzy trickery of amazing skating, leaps and pirouettes.
Design: it’s Tacky, tasteless and over the top 80’s. How perfect.
Wardrobe: Tacky, tasteless, over the top 80’s glitz; it’s Versace with a few tributes to Cavalli thrown in. See pastel jumpsuits with sequins and outrageous collars. How perfect.
Salon de Beaute: I see the grooviest shag-a-delic hair permanently stuck in style. I see blue eye shadow, sparkling white teeth, and fake eyelashes and gloss. That’s just on the men. There is so much hair spray no wonder Iceland is melting.
Botox: The wrinkles get a huge workout with so much laughing so double dose it. Water proof Mascara: Apply lashing of Chanel mascara. Laugh til you cry.
Blood ’n’ Guts: Not a speck of blood Mind drifted to shopping: Never
Smokin’ smooches: Smoke no fire.
Car chases: No cars just chasing of gold medals
Movie Mistake: ‘We see the newspaper with "Sunday, March 14, 1987". March 14, 1987 was a Saturday, not a Sunday ‘
Rename It: Hairspray
Best Review: “Blissfully silly, triumphantly tasteless and improbably hilarious.” Wall Street Journal
Best Worst Reviews: “Ferrell’s testosterony shtick fails to tweak any notions of athletic masculinity because it’s only used as a conventionally humorous juxtaposit ion for ice-skating’s mocked femininity.” Slant Magazine (slanted view?)
See it or donate to the Prada Bag fund: Laugh till you cry. (The same reaction you get when you pay for your Prada bag).