And it doesn’t get much dumber, nuttier or funnier than "Blades of Glory," an "Odd Couple" update plopped onto ice and dressed up in spangled costumes and tightly-laced figure skates.

The film’s set-up promises a few laughs. Two wildly different, hypercompetitive male figure skaters rule their singles division: Jimmy MacElroy (Heder), a graceful, technically skilled but passionless skater, and Chazz Michael Michaels (Ferrell), a sex addict who dons fringed leather chaps and gyrates his way into the judges’ ... um, hearts. Things turn ugly when the skaters get into a comical brawl on the medals stand, and they discover what Tonya Harding learned so very long ago: Laughable costumes and coiffures are fine, but violence has no place on the ice.

Banned from skating and doomed to a life of ice shows, the men discover a loophole: They can still compete in pairs skating. The hitch? There’s no time to find new female partners. The solution? Partner with each other and create the first-ever male-male pairs skating team. MacElroy’s straight-talking coach (Craig T. Nelson) insists the men live together as they train, and that’s when things start to get a little hairy (well, at least on Ferrell’s side).

At every turn, "Blades of Glory" is over-the-top and almost impossibly ridiculous. The skating performances, for starters, are laughably bad (though I imagine that’s the point). In one scene, a nefarious brother-sister skating team (Will Arnett and Amy Poehler) dresses in bad hip-hop gear (complete with gleaming bling and gold teeth); in another, they make like JFK and Marilyn Monroe (the "authentic" performance even includes spilling pills all over the rink).

The characters, too, are anything but subtle. Poehler and Arnett relish their roles as America’s sweethearts-turned-villains - all they lack is a pair of slick handlebar moustaches to twirl.

And he gets some great punchlines, including one scene he makes a joke about the Zamboni machine that’s been a long, long time coming. Heder revamps the gawky, awkward charm that made "Napoleon Dynamite" an unexpected hit. His scenes with Ferrell work well, maybe because the two have different styles (flat-out goofiness vs. arrested development).

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