At the 2002 World WinterSport Games in Stockholm, Sweden, a multi-sport international competition like the Winter Olympics, rival world-class men's singles skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) fiercely compete for the gold. Jimmy, the sheltered adopted child of a billionaire horse breeder (William Fichtner) who has decided to breed gold-medal winning athletes, is a graceful, technically perfect skater, while Chazz, a raunchy sex addict from Detroit, performs sexy routines that are mainly improvised. When they tie for the gold medal, the pair begin to argue, which develops into an all-out brawl. Having disgraced their sport (and accidentally set the Games' Mascot on fire), they are both banned from the men's singles competition for the rest of their lives, and Jimmy is legally disinherited by his adoptive father.
The story picks up two and a half long years later. Chazz is found skating the part of an Evil Wizard in an Ice Capades-esque kiddy show called Grublets on Ice while steadily getting drunker every night. Jimmy, meanwhile, is working at a skate supply shop. One day he is approached by Hector (Nick Swardson), a highly deranged fan seen stalking Jimmy at the beginning of the film. Saying that it's embarrassing stalking a has-been, Hector convinces Jimmy to skate again by finding a loophole in Jimmy's suspension: he is banned only from singles skating and could still compete in pair skating or ice dancing.
Jimmy contacts his old coach (Craig T. Nelson), but fails to find a female pairs partner. He winds up looking for a partner backstage at the show from which Chazz has just been fired for being drunk on stage and the two fight; as a result, they end up in jail. Jimmy's coach sees footage of the fight on the news, which reveals the pair tossing each other around in a manner similar to moves used in pairs figure skating. He bails them out of jail and convinces them to form the first same-sex pairs team. The media fall all over the news, while the uncompromisingly competitive reigning pairs champions, the unnaturally close sister-brother team of Fairchild and Stranz Van Waldenberg (Amy Poehler and Will Arnett), see a threat to their dominance and begin to plot against Chazz and Jimmy. The duo have been emotionally blackmailing their sister Katie (Jenna Fischer), the lone survivor the car crash that killed their parents, into serving as their assistant/servant, and now send her to spy on the new duo.
Despite a rough start that finds Chazz and Jimmy at odds and disgusted by many of their unfamiliar habits, the new duo eventually develops a mutual respect for each other. They compete at the United States Figure Skating Championships and earn a spot to the WinterSport Games once again, this time as a pairs team. The first jump of the routine ends with Jimmy crashing to the ground, but the team rallies, recovers and finishes in a blazing, fiery, explosive blaze of glory (complete with Chazz's signature closing act of shooting fire into the air), qualifying for the finals in Montreal, Quebec.
Chazz and Jimmy’s coach informs them that, to win at Montreal, they will need a technique that has never been successfully performed before and that would immediately rocket them to first place. The technique, the Iron Lotus, is an extremely complicated maneuver that Coach developed years ago while he was still training pairs. There’s just one problem: the move is also extremely dangerous; while watching a video of the move set in “the only place batshit crazy enough to do it”, North Korea, Chazz and Jimmy find out that the Iron Lotus can result in one partner decapitating the other when the throwing partner performs a death drop at the same moment the thrown partner performs a backflip. Nonetheless, they decide to attempt the move, and they begin to train. Meanwhile, Jimmy and Katie, having fallen for each other, begin an awkward relationship with a little help from Chazz.
Having trained and perfected their routine for months, Jimmy and Chazz have become very close. Seeing this new friendship as a possible point to exploit, Fairchild commands Katie to tear apart the duo by sleeping with Chazz, threatening to handicap Jimmy if Katie does not comply. Meeting him at a sex addicts support group, Katie invites Chazz to her room, where she unwillingly tries to seduce him. However, Chazz refuses to sleep with Katie, citing his friendship with Jimmy as the reason. However, he cannot keep himself from fondling Katie’s breasts, and just as he does so, Jimmy—-tricked into seeing the two together at the crucial moment—-becomes outraged at the apparent betrayal. He runs off and Chazz spends the rest of the night trying to call him and apologize.
The next day, Chazz and Jimmy are both kidnapped, separately, by Stranz and Fairchild, who are determined to keep the two from competing. While locking up Jimmy in a public bathroom, Fairchild reveals that Katie never meant to sleep with Chazz. Heartened, Jimmy, who up to this point has shown himself to be slightly germaphobic, manages, through an amusing series of events, to get the key to his handcuffs by pulling a strip of toilet paper lying on the ground with the key, but also garbage on it, with his mouth.
Meanwhile, Stranz locks up Chazz in a storage room, where Chazz manages to break free by cutting his bonds on the blade of a figure skate. Chazz and Stranz then race across a frozen path to the arena, where they chase each other through the Games' lobby, where they stumble about on their ice skates. Stranz eventually grabs a crossbrow and shoots at Chazz, hitting the Game's Mascot in the giant costumed head he wears. Chazz appears to die when he falls through the ice under a bridge. Stranz, satisfied, goes back to the rink, where he and Fairchild perform a tactless re-enactment of JFK and Marilyn Monroe's relationship on ice. But Chazz manages to escape and makes it to the skating rink 10 seconds before the pair would have been disqualified.
Chazz and Jimmy make up, and begin their sci-fi themed routine. Fairchild, seeing the two doing extremely well, throws some of the pearls she wore in her routine onto the ice. Chazz injures his ankle on one, and so cannot perform the Iron Lotus, which requires that one partner throw the other into the air. Jimmy then offers to switch parts with him. Never having practiced the other part, Jimmy runs the risk of killing Chazz. But confident in their new friendship, the two decide to try to perform the Iron Lotus.
As the stadium watches in fascination and fear, Jimmy swings Chazz by the ankle, bouncing Chazz's face close to the ice and then throwing him high into the air after several revolutions. As Chazz does a backflip above, Jimmy begins a "butterfly" move underneath. Jimmy's free leg comes so close to Chazz as Chazz comes out of the backflip that Jimmy's blade slices off some of Chazz's neck stubble. The Iron Lotus is a success, and Jimmy and Chazz also win the competition, thus reclaiming their gold medals. Jimmy makes up with Katie, and Chazz shows Jimmy a tattoo that he had done which symbolizes that he will never again compete alone, for he has a new partner: Jimmy. Stranz is arrested for his shooting of the Mascot, and he fingers Fairchild as the mastermind of the plot. They are both taken into custody, but not before sharing an incestuous kiss. Jimmy and Chazz receive their gold medals, and reveal rockets in their skates that propel them out of the stadium and into the sky, where they create a new constellation that is reminiscent of one of their first awkward moves, a crotch-grab, by shooting fire into the night sky.
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