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Storyline
When rivalry between the world's best men's figure skaters - sex addicted, improvisational Chazz Michael Michaels and germophobic, precise Jimmy MacElroy - breaks into a fight on the awards platform, they're banned from the event for life. Three years later, desire for a gold medal and a careful reading of the rules lead them to compete as skating's first male-male pair. Can they overcome mutual dislike, limited time to prepare, their coach's secret past, and the dirty tricks of their main opponents, the Van Waldenberg siblings? The key to victory or defeat may lie in the attraction of the virginal Jimmy toward Katie, the Van Waldenbergs' little sister. Written by
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Plot Synopsis
Taglines:
Kick Some Ice
Motion Picture Rating
(MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language, a comic violent image and some drug references
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Details
Release Date:
30 March 2007 (USA)
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Also Known As:
Les rois du patin
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Box Office
Budget:
$61,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend:
$33,014,202
(USA)
(30 March 2007)
Gross:
$118,153,533
(USA)
(6 July 2007)
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Technical Specs
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Trivia
At the Sex Addict's Anonymous meeting, the "Sex Addict's Prayer" (as shown on the prayer card) is: "God, Grant me the serenity to not have sex with my friend's girlfriend, the courage to go home tonight without having sex with my friends girlfriend, and the wisdom to walk away from my friend's smokin' hot girlfriend."
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Goofs
When they are at the finals and the announcers say how the two American pairs have pulled away from the field, they show the standings. The lead they show the Van Waldenberg's have combined with their score shown in their
John F. Kennedy/
Marilyn Monroe routine would make it impossible for MacElroy/Michaels to catch them mathematically even with straight 6.0s (although their scores are never shown).
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Quotes
[
first lines]
Darren MacElroy:
[
watching a young Jimmy skate at an orphanage]
I'll take him.
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Crazy Credits
During closing credits, Hector plays with Jimmy, Chazz, and Hector action figures.
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Connections
Spoofs
The Cutting Edge (1992)
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Soundtracks
My Humps
Written by
Will.i.am (as Will Adams) & David Payton
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From the very first second I laid eyes on the absolutely hilarious poster for this film, in my neighborhood multiplex a few months ago, I knew with extreme certainty that I'd be seeing it the very first week it opened. Caught it on Wednesday and I'm here to say the movie most definitely delivers on the promise of the poster, big time.
Jon Heder finally gets a role he can have some fun with for a change (which hasn't really happened since Napoleon Dynamite), and he's superbly cast as the sheltered and phobic Jimmy MacElroy, the perfect foil for Ferrell's sex machine on skates, Chazz Michael Michaels. Ferrell is fast becoming more and more adept at portraying genuine characters in his movies, not merely hollow caricatures, and he is clearly in his element here.
The beginning of the movie, the set-up, is wonderfully written, and the over-the-top tone that's established in these opening scenes is successfully carried throughout. The energy level stays high, the plot never gets tedious or bogged down, and, best of all, the routines that the two of them perform together as partners are truly hilarious and original. I was left wanting more, and that speaks volumes.