Semi-Pro (15)

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Time Out rating:

<strong>Rating: </strong>2/5

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<strong>Rating: </strong>5/5
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Time Out says

Tue Feb 26 2008

It’s rimshots all the way in this unexceptional Will Ferrell basketball comedy which gives its star a garish ’70s backdrop of fish-bowl bubble-perms, sequin-trimmed kaftans and Average White Band in which to wave his broad comic shtick (running around in circles, flailing arms, screaming, etc).

He plays Jackie Moon, a hirsute, one-time funk sensation who injects the profits of his sole hit single ‘Love Me Sexy’ into buying rinky-dink local basketball team Flint Tropics, who he plays for, manages and promotes.

Like ‘Talladega Nights’ and ‘Anchorman’, ‘Semi-Pro’ resorts to the bombast of brash ‘infotainment’ news and sports programming to mine its humour. This, admittedly, yields a few glorious moments (Moon, for purely hyperbolic motives, dubs the final game of the Tropics’ season the ‘Mega Bowl’ and claims it to be the greatest event since ‘the invention of the submarine’) but also leaves you with the chilling thought that there isn’t a sport that couldn’t be stripped and stretched to fit this tired format.

Author: David Jenkins

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Release details

Rated:

15

UK release:

Fri Feb 29 2008

Duration:

91 mins

Cast and crew

Cast:

Woody Harrelson, Andre Benjamin, Will Arnett, Maura Tierney, Will Ferrell

Director:

Kent Alterman

Lyricist:

Theodore Shapiro

Editor:

Debra Neil-Fisher

Music:

Shane Hurlbut

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Rated as: 5/5 (8 ratings)

  • will farrell in magic he can make the worse fill brill if ya dont like him ur a boring twat!!!!

    charlie h Mon Mar 24 2008
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  • Roger rabbit: what kind of lowlife makes love to a bag of spanners? This film was a great will ferrel movie and i would pay to watch it again!

    Shahinoor Sun Mar 23 2008
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • GASH

    GASHFACE Thu Mar 20 2008
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • absolutly crackin film 1 of will ferrells best after old school id let will love me sexy anytime alright skills x x x x x x x x x x x x

    benn bobbins Wed Mar 12 2008
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • If you do not think that this is one of the all time great Ferrel movies, to quote the legendary Ron Burgandy, "I will fight you".

    Sas Tue Mar 11 2008
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • If you have the IQ of a rattle you will luv this.....however for the rest of the honest hard working taxpayers heres two words to sum it up SHIT & BULL .....had a better night having sex with a bag o spanners !!!!!

    roger rabbit Sun Mar 9 2008
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  • This film is THE most complete load of shit i have seen in a longgggg time! It tries to be funny and has no plot and its as bad as some bollocks ive seen like the ginger dead man, and that was shit.

    Dick$i Sun Mar 9 2008
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • david jenkins is off his chops on dental cream. he doesnt know whats happening. hope he comes to it soon

    shotgun Sat Mar 8 2008
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  • Will is a proper legend, try 'talledega nights' and 'anchorman' for more of the same! gonna see this tonight, cant wait

    Chris + Bex Thu Mar 6 2008
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  • WILL FERRELL is brilliant! You rated it bad, because u have a crap boring sense of humour.

    adam Wed Mar 5 2008
    Rated as: 5/5
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