The Inland Imperialist

When I was waiting for the movie to begin I was reading a review of  "Grindhouse"in one of the free newspapers that are available in the  theater's lobby. The reviewer coddled and made excuses for the movie as  if it was an infant-thankfully the room darkened and I sat back and saw  "Blades of Glory," which has been repeatedly snubbed by critics because  it is doesn't cater to their pretensions. However, if they stepped back,   they'd see the movie for the not quite ice masterpiece that it is: a  mix of  "The Odd Couple" and a Billy Wilder screwball comedy that is  allowed to indulge in good natured homophobia. I belly laughed at the  succinct silliness of it all. Figure skaters are self parodies of  themselves anyway-but Will Farrell plays a Jim Morrison like skater.  The anti-figure-figure skater. Jon Heder portrays what you would expect  a male skater-to be like: sexually ambivalent, lithe and narcissistic.   All the situations are stock and predictable like comfort food-you know  what the meat loaf will taste like and when you eat it you are happy.  However, there is a qurkiness and a truth to this feature. Figure  skaters are as inbreed as a pedigree greyhounds-thin-nervous and  superficial.   The Will Farrell charachter announces early on that he  is a sexual complusive, later on in the narrative he is trying to  control his impluses, he chants the "Serenity Prayer" it is slight and  funny passage. The scrpt is peppered with such instances and  inferences. For example, Will Farrell and Jon Heder start off as  enemies and eventually become close friends. Will goes so far as to  have a tatoo of Jon inked on his shoulder-and when Jon kisses the girl  love interest for the second time in the movie, she remarks what a good  kisser, he now is. Jon explains that the Will Farell taught him a few  pointers on how to kiss. The deduction being that Will and Jon started  sleeping together sometime in the later part of the story. Not a big  deal, but it is certainly no surprise if you analyze their sodomite  routine which was nothing short of hilarious. It was such a funny movie  I forgot how pathetic I am. This movie deserves to be the top grossing  movie in the past fornight. I walked out of the movie satisfied like  you are supposed when you leave the lobby and the presumptious free  periodicals behind.

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