Film Review
Semi-Pro
Written by Scot Armstrong
Directed by Kent Alterman
New Line Cinema
2008
Rating: 
"Semi-Pro" aspires to the absurdity of "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" and the underdog sports parody of "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" and ends up painfully strained in the effort. Will Ferrell, again skewering misplaced white male machismo, plays a one-hit-wonder turned basketball team owner and player Jackie Moon. Jackie's team, the Flint Tropics, is in the American Basketball Association and is at risk of being dissolved when the National Basketball Association absorbs the struggling league. Jackie's comic desperation to turn the fan-less and largely untalented Tropics one of the four teams to make it to the NBA forces him to play actual basketball with the help of aging player Monix (Woody Harrelson) and perform crazy promotional stunts. There's some inspired lunacy, like Jackie wrestling a bear and deliriously extended scenes in which Jackie tries to throw up and make a free-throw, but in comparison to the overtly similar "Major League" and "Dodgeball," "Semi-Pro" shoots a brick.
Posted Friday, February 29, 2008
Link to this review:
http://filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/001064.php
Recent Film Reviews
Warning: mysql_query() [
function.mysql-query]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
105
Warning: mysql_query() [
function.mysql-query]: A link to the server could not be established in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
105
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
107
No recent reviews posted.
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
109
Warning: asort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
119
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
123
Recent Music Reviews
Warning: mysql_query() [
function.mysql-query]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
155
Warning: mysql_query() [
function.mysql-query]: A link to the server could not be established in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
155
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
157
No recent reviews posted.
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
161
Warning: asort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
171
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
175
Recent TV Reviews
Warning: mysql_query() [
function.mysql-query]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
207
Warning: mysql_query() [
function.mysql-query]: A link to the server could not be established in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
207
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
209
No recent reviews posted.
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
213
Warning: asort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
223
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
227
Recent Book Reviews
Warning: mysql_query() [
function.mysql-query]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
259
Warning: mysql_query() [
function.mysql-query]: A link to the server could not be established in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
259
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
261
No recent reviews posted.
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
265
Warning: asort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
275
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/home/ofmention/filmzeus.pressbin.com/archives/lower.php on line
279
