– not many actors can claim they’d have no career if they chose to work out at a gym and lose their unsightly pudginess or lack of muscle tone. Such is the case of Will Ferrell who has made stardom and box office success from playing macho losers in “Anchorman” about a newscaster, and last year’s “Talladega Nights” about a race car driver. This time he’s a skating champ. Of course the first question that comes to mind is who’d fall for him in something as disciplined as a figure skater, but if you’re willing to believe….Chaz Michael Michaels (Ferrell) is an ice skating sex addict known to his fans as “sex on ice” a smoking cowboy whose stiffest competition is a pretty-girly-butterfly- skater named Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder “Napoleon Dynamite”). When the two get into a slapping match that ends their careers on ice, they think their lives are over. Heder now works at a sports store and Ferrell is a plain old drunk in costume for a generic Ice Capades matinee. That is until their coach (Craig T. Nelson of “Coach” fame) realizes the guide book doesn’t say anything about performing as a couple. Now the duo will join forces to fight off their toughest team to beat – Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg (Will Arnet and Amy Poehler) the evil siblings who plan to stand in their way. It’s complete silliness. It’s one SNL skit after another, but their over-infectious passion for their zany characters works. The cameos of Nancy Kerrigan, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton and Peggy Fleming only add to the hilarity. Three Tiaras
