Funnier than expected, and most of the laughs coming from Will Ferrell's character. When he's switched on he's hilarious, but not always - Stranger Than Fiction being a recent example. The story is a sports-comedy in similar vein to Dodgeball - sports film about a ridiculous sport - and although the ending is pretty predictable, it's more about what happens along the way that makes it funny. The uncomfortable awkwardness of two men skating together, and having to do manuevers that would be sexually threatening was played to good comedic effect. It's light good fun, so I'd recommend it if you need a laugh.

Plot Synopsis:

Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy are rival mens figure skaters. At the Winter Olympics they tie for the gold medal, but after fighting on the podium, are stripped of their medals and banned from ever competing in skating again.

Jimmy is abandoned by his rich adoptive father, who only loved him when he was winning medals. Jimmy works in a skating equipment shop. Chazz hits the bottle, and skates drunk in a children's ice show. Jimmy's stalker find him, and tells him that he's found a loophole that will let Jimmy compete again: if he finds a partner, he can skate in pairs competition.

Jimmy contacts his old coach, and eventually ends up with Chazz. The coach trys to get them to resolve their differences and work as a team, and slowly they do. He tries to teach the boys his custom move - the Iron Lotus; a move so dangerous, that a Korean skater beheaded his partner trying to do the move.

Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg find out they will be competing against them, and plot to undermine them. The manipulate their sister, Katie, into spying on Chazz and Jimmy. Katie and Jimmy develop an attraction and go out. When Fairchild finds out she pressures Katie to break them up by sleeping with Chazz. Katie attends Chazz's sex-addicts meeting, and lures him back to her hotel room. She can't go through with it, and doesn't sleep with Chazz, but not before Jimmy arrives and mistakenly thinks she has.

To ensure that they can't compete, Stranz abducts Chazz on his way to the games, and ties him up. Chazz manages to escape, and Stranz chases him on skates all the way to the Games Arena. Fairchild handcuffs Jimmy to a pipe in the toilets, and he only manages to escape by chewing his way through the contents of the mens-room garbage bin!

Chazz (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy (Jon Heder) make up, and begin their sci-fi themed routine. Fairchild, seeing the two doing extremely well, throws some of the pearls she wore in her routine onto the ice. Chazz shatters his ankle on one, and so cannot perform the Iron Lotus, which requires that one partner throw the other into the air. Jimmy then offers to switch parts with him. Never having practiced the other part, Jimmy runs the risk of killing Chazz. But confident in their new friendship, the two decide to try to perform the Iron Lotus.

As the stadium watches in fascination and fear, Jimmy swings Chazz by the ankle, bouncing Chazz's face close to the ice and then throwing him high into the air after several revolutions. As Chazz does a backflip above, Jimmy begins a "butterfly" move underneath. Jimmy's free leg comes so close to Chazz, Jimmy's blade slices off some of Chazz's neck stubble. The Iron Lotus is a success, and Jimmy and Chazz win the competition, thus reclaiming their gold medals.

Jimmy makes up with Katie, and Chazz shows Jimmy a tattoo that he had done which symbolizes that he will never again compete alone, for he has a new partner: Jimmy. Stranz is arrested for his shooting of the Mascot while pursuing Chazz, and he fingers Fairchild as the mastermind of the plot. They are both taken into custody. Jimmy and Chazz receive their gold medals, and reveal rockets in their skates that propel them out of the stadium and into the sky, where they create a new constellation that is reminiscent of one of their first awkward moves, a crotch-grab, by shooting fire into the night sky.