YMMV / Blades of Glory

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Many people do use horse shampoo on their own hair due its high quality.
• Funny Moments:
  • The opening fight at the podium between Jimmy and Chazz has this gem:
    Chazz: Get that damn bird out of my face before I break its neck!
    [Chazz headbutts Jimmy.]
    Commentator: A perfect headbutt!
  • The above moment results in Jimmy toppling backwards into another contestant and an official, which creates a domino effect that leads to a torch being knocked onto a mascot and setting him on fire. What sells it is that during the shot where Chazz and Jimmy's fight comes to an end, the mascot can be seen running across the rink and toppling over the edge as two of the rink's staff run after him with fire extinguishers.
  • When telling the skaters about the Iron Lotus, Coach Robert admits that he had to take it to North Korea, that being the only place on the planet crazy enough to give it a chance. Chazz's response is an utterly unsurprised "of course", as in "of course you'd have to go there".
• Gainax Ending: After winning the gold medals, Chazz and Jimmy suddenly light sparks up from under their skates and lift off the ground, taking off flying through the open roof into the sky. Since when do skaters magically fly? Since when does magic exist in the film's universe? Other than for the Rule of Cool and comedy, this comes completely out of nowhere and provides no explanation for how and why the skating duo can fly.
• Genius Bonus: Figure skating fans will notice three names as part of pairs teams: Pluchenko (a competitor for Russia), Lambiel (Switzerland), and Suguri (Japan). Those are actually the names of singles skaters: Evgeni Plushenko, 2006 Olympic champion and multiple Olympic medalist, Stephane Lambiel, 2006 Olympic silver medalist and two-time world champion, and Fumie Suguri, three time world medalist who also competed at the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Games. All three compete for the countries they are listed in during the movie.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In 2023 American Adam Johnson was tragically killed in a British Elite Hockey League game after having his throat cut by a skate blade. Thus making the jokes about the iron lotus a lot less funny.
• Ho Yay: Between Jimmy and Chazz, in spades.
  • "You're my pretty lady, McElroy!"
  • Chazz mouths 'I want you.' to Jimmy in the first scene. Jimmy is appalled.
  • "You're gonna file a joint income tax return..."
  • After kissing Katie, Jimmy says, "Chazz taught me some stuff."
  • Chazz kicking Jimmy's legs apart just before they begin their Fire & Ice routine.
  • Lampshaded by one fan during an interview asking if this sport could "get any gayer."
• Jerkass Woobie: Chazz. He's crude and not very nice at first, but he apparently has been without any family for all of his life. A deleted scene shows that he also happened to be at the same orphanage Jimmy was at, but was ignored for adoption in favor of Jimmy. He points out that a cute kid like Jimmy could easily have found a home, but that was pretty much his only chance to have any sort of a family.
  • Stranz and Fairchild have a right to be ticked when after winning a gold medal the reporter only asks them how they feel about Jimmy and Chazz.
• Memetic Mutation: "I don't even know what that means!" "Nobody knows what it means, but it's provocative, it gets the people going!"
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Jimmy's adoptive dad crosses it by disowning him after he's banned from competitive skating then promptly abandoning him in the middle of nowhere to fend for himself.
  • Stranz and Fairchild, while already shown to be nasty pieces of work with their continual emotional abuse of their little sister Katie, truly cross it by forcing her, whom they previously ordered to pursue a relationship with Jimmy to try throwing him off his game, to seduce Chazz in a setup that it looks like she's cheating on Jimmy so he could find out, much to Katie's distress given she's come to genuinely love him.
• Nightmare Fuel: The consequences of doing the Iron Lotus wrong. We even see it happen!
  Coach: "I was wrong! Don't do it! It's suicide!"
• Nausea Fuel: Chazz, overweight, shirtless and in a bath towel.
  • The smashcut of Chazz vomiting profusely at the kids ice rink next to the shot of a loud pink Slushie machine.
  • The scene where Chazz licks a woman across her face.
  • "Gross, you smell like aftershave and taco meat!"
  • Chazz throwing up inside his giant 'evil wizard' twice.
• Playing Against Type: Though this film was several years before Parks and Recreation it’s weird to see Amy Poehler playing a nasty incestuous villain.
• Sampled Up: By Kanye West, for 2011's "Niggas in Paris", which uses a few snippets of dialogue from the film ("We're gonna skate to one song, and one song only" and "Nobody knows what it means, but it's provocative!"). West is a big fan of Will Ferrell and would later cameo in Anchorman 2.
• Special Effects Failure: If you had some hope that Ferrell and Heder actually trained to skate, the first green screen shot or bad CGI rendering of them on the ice will show you otherwise.
• Squick: Jimmy eating trash to get the key Fairchild placed in the bin so they wouldn't show up for the finals.
  • Chazz uses special horse-placenta shampoo (Mane 'n' Tail is available in Real Life and apparently it really is great for hair, but it's shampoo for horses, not from horses).
  • In-Universe, The Van Waldenberg twins sharing an incestuous kiss, much to everyone's disgust.
• The Woobie: Katie loses her parents in a car accident at a young age (and was in the car with them, no less!) then grows up to be a virtual slave for her unscrupulous siblings, who emotionally abuse her and keep her under their thumb by pinning the blame for their parents' deaths on her head.
  • Jimmy fits as well. His adopted dad only took him in for his potential in figure skating, subjecting him to all sorts of questionable training methods. The instant Jimmy is banned from skating competitions, his dad disowns and abandons him. Ouch.