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Semi-Pro (Unrated) | 
| Director: Kent Alterman
Actors: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Andr?? Benjamin, Deray Davis, Maura Tierney
Studio: Warner Bros.
Category: Movie
Buy New: $3.99
Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 284
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Unrated
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 99 Minutes
ASIN: B001AOEN76
Theatrical Release Date: February 29, 2008
Release Date: October 1, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Synopsis:
Will Ferrell stars in Semi-Pro, an outrageous comedy set in 1976 against the backdrop of the maverick ABA a fast-paced, wild and crazy basketball league that rivaled the NBA and made a name for itself with innovations like the three-point shot and slam dunk contest.Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, a one-hit wonder who used the profits from the success of his chart-topping song "Love Me Sexy" to achieve his dream of owning a basketball team. But Moons franchise, the Flint Michigan Tropics, is the worst team in the league and in danger of folding when the ABA announces its plans to merge with the NBA.If they want to survive, Jackie and the Tropics must now do the seemingly impossible WIN. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 59 more reviews...
 The bottom of the Will Ferrell barrell October 5, 2008
Mackenzie Phillips (Chicago)
Semi Pro is far from Will Ferrell's finest work. He's funny enough that the movie still has several moments to make you laugh out loud, but other than that it's kind of boring. Almost not silly enough, if you can imagine Will Ferrell doing that!
Defintely not the best Will Ferell but still hilarious September 24, 2008
N. Baker (Frisco, Killa Cali, USA)
All you whiners giving this low ratings need to be quiet. This movie is clearly supposed to be stupid, not a smart witty comedy. It's classic Ferrell. While I do admit it isn't anywhere near as good as "Talladega Nights" or "Old School", it''s still full of good laughs. I don't see how anyone could watch this and not find it amusing. People these days are way too stuck up and expect too much when it comes to movies. I, personally, love comedies like this. They are supposed to be ridiculous and off-the-wall, and they make you feel good. If you don't like Will Ferrell, don't watch his movies. If you do like hi, then you should know what to expect.
professional job September 15, 2008
jjlaw
Bottom line: an enjoyable, funny movie (thanks to Will Ferrell: a meaty 215pounds, your Tropics starting power forward - Jackie Mooooooon!). Perhaps better than the movie itself is its making - particularly the basketball camp where Coach Ellis puts the extras (sorry, "Ball Players") and actors through their paces (for three freakin months yo). Style is as important as form here. "I don't like his hair, cut him" Coach says. "Done". My favorite is the ball player who looks like a young Matthew Broderick but talks like Snoop Dogg ("me and my boys were out playing some street ball and this guy says yo! they're makin a movie over there, so I's like damn! yo da da da da da")......freeeeeeeky....
 Semi-Awful September 12, 2008
LeviDevi "Bubman" (Frankfort, KY USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am just about speechless at how a movie as inept as this one could even get made. Where was the script? Did these guys even have one? The movie should have been entitled, "Talented Actors Waste Time in Making Semi-Pro."
Supposedly, this movie is about a semi-pro team from Flint, Michigan, who played in the ABA(?). If they could finish in the top four of the league, they stood a chance of being absorbed when the NBA/ABA merged. There's only one problem: there WERE no semi-pro teams in the ABA and certainly not one from Flint, Michigan. And if you think the NBA will accept your team because you "average 2,500 fans a game," I've got a nice bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
What's even more laughable is this is actually being referred to as a sports movie. PUH-LEEZE. There is more action in watching paint dry than there is happening in this movie. This basketball team performed more dance routines than ran plays. Yeah; that happens ALL the time in the NBA. Why I hear that Shaq and LeBron have just finished their interpretive dance classes. Woody Harrelson and Andre Benjamin's talents were totally wasted, and I've always been on the fence about Mr. Ferrell. Suffice it to say that I've now fallen on a definite side. The language didn't bother me--it was all the other dialogue that came before/after the language that did. Simply AWFUL.
not good September 8, 2008
ginsu (tv land)
THis one looked like a skipper. But some one I trusted, told me it was better than Blades. HA! liar.
THis movie is *NOT* a comedy. its a sports movie witha bunch of comedy thrown in. WIll Ferrels character seems like a side character that was maybe a small comedy relief part that was expanded or an add on role he created - he has nothing to with basketball and the central plot about basketball.
Woody haroldson can be funny. but hes a straight boring a hole in this movie. Andre 3000 is known for his funky afronaught music personna - but unlike George CLinton - he's always been a sourpuss. he just adds sourness to this film.
this film has moments but its not good.
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