Capsule reviews of films showing this week:

“Blades of Glory” — Will Ferrell and Jon Heder’s figure-skating comedy offers a few prime gags but a flimsy premise that loses its novelty quickly. The idea sounds like a great little “Saturday Night Live” sketch: Ferrell’s an arrogant rebel of a men’s champ, Heder’s his fastidious rival, and the two end up teaming as the first men’s pair after they’re barred for life from solo competition. And there’s about enough funny material for a great little “Saturday Night Live” sketch. The trouble is, there’s an extra 80 minutes or so of down time in which Ferrell, Heder and co-stars Craig T. Nelson, Jenna Fischer, Will Arnett and Amy Poehler are pretty much repeating their characters’ shallow schtick again and again. PG-13. Southside Cinem>

“Meet the Robinsons” — There’s been such an onslaught of animated movies over the past year or so, it only seems like they’re coming at you in 3-D. This one actually does, and it’s one of the more tolerable of the genre in recent memory. Thankfully, it doesn’t consist of smart-alecky talking animals spewing one-liners and pop culture references. And the three-dimensional effects are pretty spectacular. A lot of times with this technology, it’s too easy to zing and fling things at the audience, simply because you can. It’s gratuitous; the most recent “Spy Kids” movie is a prime example. Here, the effects spring organically from the story. You feel like you’re immersed, the way the ground slopes toward you or objects seem to come from behind you and enter the screen. The story, however, is strictly two-dimensional. Young Lewis (voiced by Daniel Hansen) is left at an orphanage as an infant. Being the science geek that he is, he invents a memory scanner to go back and find his mom. Instead, he winds up in the future, where a family of loveable misfits and weirdos takes him in. Angela Bassett and Tom Selleck are among the vocal cast. GB>Neptune Theatre

“Are We Done Yet?” RIn this home-repair comedy, Ice Cube occupies a shoddy, slapped-together structure that collapses around him in every scene. I am speaking of the film itself. Mediocre from foundation to roof, this sequel to 2005’s tepid road-trip farce “Are We There Yet?” is the movie equivalent of a tear-down. Cube and Nia Long reprise their roles as squabbling newlyweds Nick Persons and Suzanne Kingston. With his new bride and scrappy stepchildren Lindsey and Kevin (Aleisha Allen and Philip Bolden) overcrowding his apartment, Cube moves the clan to a quaint dream home in the country. PG. Little Theatre