"Blades of Glory" **1/2 (out of four): Will Ferrell's latest goofy mainstream comedy is set in the world of competitive figure skating. You can pretty much guess the rest.

Auto racing, Television News, Christmas Elf - is there any occupation Will Ferrell can’t parlay into a goofy mainstream comedy? If “Blades of Glory” – the comedian’s latest vehicle set in the world of competitive figure skating - is any indication, that answer is no – sorta. While “Blades” offers the requisite chuckles – most located around the groin area - the plot, jokes and characters are as obvious as the winking “two men in tights” homophobia that permeates the film. “Blades” is for people who think the sight of two men in spandex is inherently funny. And for a while the film tries to be nothing more than that. When we meet Mr. Ferrell’s Chazz Michael Michaels, he’s an aging hotshot figure skater competing against the young upstart pretty boy Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder). Through some impressive visual trickery, the two men execute flawless routines ending in a tie-ruling that leads to fisticuffs and gets both men expelled from the sport. Only through a loophole, discovered by Jimmy’s creepy-enough-to-be-not-funny stalker, do the two men realize they can re-enter the world of skating…as partners.

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