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CommentAug 27, 2009
Semi-Pro (2008)
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Reviews Counted:154
Fresh:32
Rotten:122
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: Semi-Pro is an intermittently funny, half-hearted attempt at sports satire, and one of Will Ferrell's weaker cinematic efforts.
Theatrical Release: Feb 19, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $33.4M
Synopsis: Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams... [More]
Starring: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, André Benjamin, Andrew Daly
Director: Kent Alterman
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REVIEWS FOR SEMI-PRO
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Apr 23, 2009
Will Ferrell's Semi-Pro is a dreadful comedy. It's lazy and slipshod.
Feb 2, 2009
No amount or combination of shame, absurdity and unflattering outfits seem to dint Ferrell's fierce commitment to character.
Oct 18, 2008
It isn't a good enough sports movie to please sports fans and it's not an outright funny enough movie to please Ferrell's fans.
Oct 18, 2008
In the end it’s too simply all too familiar.
Oct 18, 2008
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Oct 18, 2008
Semi-Pro offers nothing new.
Oct 18, 2008
You end up with a movie that is way too simple-minded for adults on an ABA nostalgia trip, and way too dirty for kids.
Oct 18, 2008
A lot of it is funny, but the problem is that it doesn’t amount to much.
Oct 18, 2008
Unfortunately, the outrageousness lessens in the second half of the film, becoming your straight forward underdog movie.
Oct 1, 2008
Coming from someone that didn't like Ferrell's last few comedies, I can say that this is an improvement.
Jul 22, 2008
we don't really need any more of these movies
Jul 5, 2008
Qualifies as a sort of cinematic comfort food: it's the mac and cheese of the cineplex.
Jul 1, 2008
... a film that is bipolar in its intentions, at once trying to make us laugh at Jackie and care about the rest of the characters, but it's a losing battle on both sides.
Jun 20, 2008
Aside from the 'fro and his sport of choice, Jackie Moon is really no different whatsoever from Ricky Bobby, or whatever Ferrell's character's name was in "Blades of Glory.
Jun 11, 2008
I have to admit that not much about this movie made me laugh much at all.
Jun 6, 2008
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