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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794043121449
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 03, 2008
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 5098
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Product Description:
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. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 09/30/2008 Starring: Will Ferrell Andrea Bejamin Rating: R Director: Ken Alterman
Amazon.com:
The 1970s are back in all their excessive glory in Semi-Pro, an uneven but not uninspired Will Ferrell comedy about a professional basketball team that puts more energy into insane promotional schemes than playing well on the court. Ferrell stars as Jackie Moon, a former pop sensation who made enough money from a couple of hit records (the biggest: 'Love Me Sexy') to buy Flint, Mich.'s the Tropics, a disorganized bunch of losers with one genuine talent named Coffee Black (Andre J. Benjamin). Despite knowing little about the game, Jackie is the Tropics' coach as well as a player, though his greater love is in coming up with such bizarre marketing stunts as wrestling a bear and attempting a motorcycle jump over a line of cheerleaders. When the Tropics look like they might be shut down, Jackie desperately agrees to let washed-up veteran player Monix (Woody Harrelson) take over coaching, turning the team's fortunes around--just a bit. The film's thin premise opens the floodgates to a series of absurd vignettes that suit Ferrell's silly-satiric brand of frat humor very well. There are choice moments, such as Jackie's table-shoving tantrum at a meeting of team owners (presided over by an aghast but tolerant commissioner, adroitly played by David Koechner), and his rapid escape from the Tropics' arena when he realizes everyone in the stands has won free corndogs (at Jackie's expense). Other performers shine, too, including Will Arnett and Andrew Daly as a glass-half-full/glass-half-empty pair of game announcers, and Maura Tierney as Monix's former love interest. The script is by Scot Armstrong (The Heartbreak Kid), and the film is the first directorial effort of producer Kent Alterman (Mr. Woodcock). --Tom Keogh
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Average Rating: 
Rating: - Here comes the Alley... and there goes the Oop!
Short Attention Span Summary (SASS):
Time: The `70s
1. Will Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, a one hit wonder who owns, coaches and plays with his basketball team the Flint Tropics.
2. As you would expect, the team isn't doing very well
3. Down and out, but not giving up, Moon negotiates a chance for his team to join the NBA
4. Maybe white men can't jump, but he trades a major appliance for Ed Monnix (Woody Harrelson) anyway
5. Coffee Black (Andre Benjamin) finds his form and soon the team is no longer considered the "OutKast" of the ABA
6. Moon raises the entertainment level to include dancing seahorses and bear wresting at half time
7. After receiving some valuable advice from Patti Labelle, the team almost achieves the predictable.
This is typical Will Ferrell stuff - I'd rate it better than Step Brothers, but worse than Blades of Glory. Ferrell's over the top antics are the main reason for watching this movie, even though at times it's more like morbid fascination. Andre Benjamin is good, even though his impressive afro is even better, and Harrelson? He hasn't changed a bit.
Rent (don't buy) for the basketball, and stay for the half-time show.
Jackie Moon: Everybody panic! It's just like the Titanic but it's full of bears!
Amanda Richards, October 19, 2008
Rating:  - The bottom of the Will Ferrell barrell
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!
Rating: - Defintely not the best Will Ferell but still hilarious
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.
Rating: - professional job
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....
Rating:  - Semi-Awful
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.
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