Stolen jokes

Oh no, WILL SMITH and LIAM NEESON, who would have thought the people who last brought us Taken 2 and After Earth would ever appear in a mediocre movie?

Couldn't agree more. Once you've skated on ice in one movie you should never do it in another movie, that's the whole reason there was never a sequel to Cool Runnings!



Opinions are just onions with pi in them.

The SeaWorld scene was similar to the Fairy drunken scene from Blades of Glory.

Blind scenes similar to the paralized scenes from Talladega Nights.

Also when the RV flipped in slow-motion and the gentle music played,
that was similar to Will Ferrel in Old School shooting himself in the neck with the tranquilizer then falling into the pool to Simon & Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence.

Only the RV scene wasn't funny. It could've been. They should've made their voices deeper in slow motion.

Also it seemed like it was put together slap-dash, and the director just used the first take on every scene. There are scenes where actors start to break character and laugh, then catch themselves (such as Brick's love interest).

I wouldn't say the jokes were stolen except for that 'black' and 'mole' one, but the whole movie was lame and part of it because of the uninspired, lame, recycled jokes you've just listed in addition to unnecessary cameos, like every cameo, in the fight scene.

The skating and going blind stuff was directly lifted from a '70s film called Ice Castles starring Robbie Benson. He's even wearing a similar costume to the girl in that film.

i thought about the mole joke from austin powers too when i saw that scene. and i imagine they used the fact that will ferral can ice skate because... he can ice skate. i doubt that these parralells were on purpose per-say. its just an unoriginal and derivative comedy. and sometimes downright stupid

never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you-

"Will Ferrell ice skating, from 'Blades of Glory'. "

Yes, that was the first time anyone ever skated in a movie.