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Mood:
Humorous
Plot:
Underdog Contests and Competitions Athlete and Trainer Sport Team Ambition Athlete's Life Hopes Rivalry more...
Genres:
Comedy Sport Period
Time/Period:
20th Century 70s
Place:
Michigan
Humor:
Grossout Humor
Style:
Ensemble Cast
Attitudes:
Not Serious Realistic
Score:
R&B Soul
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Profanity Sexual Content

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Semi-Pro, 2008

Starring: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Will Arnett, Andre 3000

Directed by: Kent Alterman

Written by: Scot Armstrong

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 91 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:5.7

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Semi-Pro can be described as humorous. The plot revolves around a sports team, an athlete and trainer, and underdogs. Its comic aspect comes from grossout humor. Semi-Pro's main genres are comedy, sports, and period. In terms of style, it stars an ensemble cast. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. Semi-Pro is located in Michigan. It takes place in the 20th century. The soundtrack is soul and R&B. Note that Semi-Pro involves sexual content and profanity.

Summary of Semi-Pro

Over the course of a string of successful comedies that includes TALLADEGA NIGHTS and BLADES OF GLORY, Will Ferrel has perfected a type of swaggering, machismo-fueled character, heavy on ego and severely lacking in intellect of any kind. Typically set in the world of sports, these movies have allowed Ferrel free range to both mock and celebrate idiot masculinity. SEMI-PRO, Ferrell's homage to the wild, afro-picked splendor of the short-lived American Basketball Association, continues this trend, and finds him embodying yet another larger-than-life hunk a burnin' love in the form of Jackie Moon, R&B singer-turned-owner/player/coach of the hapless Flint, Michigan Tropics.

As sports movies go, SEMI-PRO's story should be more than familiar to even the most casual fan. The Tropics are a lackluster franchise that place good times and flash over winning. However, when the league announces that they will be merging with the NBA and only taking the top four teams along, the Tropics buckle down and give true ballin' a shot. SEMI-PRO follows the comedic formula of other Ferrell movies and contains an equal amount of satire (tame-but-effective ‘70s goofs), slapstick (on-court brawls, zany stunts), and surreal non-sequiturs (an improvised poker game provides one of the film's most deliciously bizarre scenes), but it's not exactly interchangeable with Ferrell's other movies. Though the actor cuts loose as Jackie Moon, the film is decidedly an ensemble picture, with Woody Harrelson providing the movie's true protagonist, in washed up former NBA player Monix, and Andre Benjamin offering a charming turn as flashy NBA wannabe Clarence "Coffee" Black. Perhaps most interestingly, however, is SEMI-PRO's surprising attention to detail, though the Flint Tropics are a fictional team, the real ABA was every bit as wacky, unhinged, and, yes, entertaining as SEMI-PRO itself.

Details

Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	19 February 2008
Runtime:	91 min

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Will Ferrell

as Jackie Moon

Woody Harrelson

as Monix

Will Arnett

as Lou Redwood

Andre 3000

as Clarence

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Rolling Stone

Critics will score Semi-Pro on its missed shots. My guess is that audiences will do what they always do with Ferrell: remember when he killed them laughing. Full Review

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by: Peter Travers

Variety

Very much in the tradition of "Slap Shot," George Roy Hill's raucously funny and foul-mouthed 1977 laffer about the misadventures of a minor-league hockey team, Semi-Pro scores big laughs with the rowdy play-by-play of hard-luck hoopsters struggling... Full Review

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by: Joe Leydon

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It's more funny to know that Ferrell can't tell good jokes anymore. If you're looking to laugh alot then watch Old School which is where his career really stopped. Read and rate it

05.November.2010
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by: realitysmaster
realitysmaster rated this movie0/10

Do you think Will Ferrell should have made Anchorman 2? No worries, here it is everyone. Semi-Pro is the sequel with a deceiving name. About the same level of humor comes across, and Will is playing the exact same character (You stay classy Will).... Read and rate it

22.March.2009
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by: Matthew
Matthew rated this movie6/10Okay

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