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Semi-Pro (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 140
Fresh: 30
Rotten:110
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Consensus: Semi-Pro is an intermittently funny, half-hearted attempt at sports satire, and one of Will Ferrell's weaker cinematic efforts.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release: Feb 29, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $33,370,443
Synopsis: 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.... [More]
Starring: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Will Arnett, André Benjamin
Director: Kent Alterman
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Reviews for Semi-Pro
Coming from someone that didn't like Ferrell's last few comedies, I can say that this is an improvement.
07/22/08
Qualifies as a sort of cinematic comfort food: it's the mac and cheese of the cineplex.
07/01/08
... 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.
06/20/08
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.
06/11/08
Semi-Pro stays true to the formula, and it's a pretty funny, good-looking comedy.
06/06/08
Affectionate if foul-mouthed locker room method acting, with defensive moves on behalf of the mostly flabby-abs homeboy team concept. And counting all sorts of eccentric, nutty and deeply lovable players, before sports went commercial and big time.
06/02/08
...pretty much mines the bottom of the barrel for laughs, going with improvisation and cheap shots.
05/22/08
There was trailer before the film for Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantonamo Bay, which actually made me laugh more than the entire film of Semi-Pro.
05/12/08
No more can filmmakers get instant laughs with Pong, ascots, eight-tracks and lava lamps. It's just no longer funny. And for 95 percent of its running time, neither is Semi-Pro.
05/01/08
Jackie Moon is every other Will Ferrell character in John Stockton shorts.
04/16/08
Will Ferrell can be very funny. This is not one of those times. Tired and tawdry, this tedious misfire is a misjudgement on Ferrell's part, namely in terms of material.
03/31/08
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03/31/08
Top Critic Will Ferrell has been copying his own parody formula so much after Talladega Nights and Blades of Glory, he has become his own joke-eating virus.
03/27/08
Jackie's vast neediness and ego overwhelm not only Coffee Black, but also the rest of Semi-Pro.
03/21/08
[Reaches] a point of such creative bankruptcy that Ferrell stands poised to become as tiresome a screen jester as Robin Williams.
03/16/08
The cast does, though, rise above the top (or bottom) of some situations and keeps the film on the positive side of funny.
03/15/08
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