We have a contender for worst movie of the year! This is a sad, depressing mess. The usually reliable Will Ferrell plays the owner and power forward of the Flint Tropics, a bad ABA basketball team. A team called the Tropics, from Flint Michigan. Thats the funniest thing in the movie and that ain’t funny. Ferrell finds out that 4 teams will go to the NBA and the rest will fold, so he tries to get his team to take 4th place and average 2,000 fans a game. Ferrell trades for Woody Harrelson, an ex NBA’er to help the team win and having crazy events to draw fans. Sub plots involve Woody trying to win his ex-wife (Maura Tierny) back from her superfan husband and Andre 3000 maybe changing teams. This is the most joyless comedy ever. A bunch of bored, depressed basketball players= UNFUNNY. Semi-Pro is a rare “R” rated film from Ferrell so maybe it might be a good idea to stay at PG-13. Any movie that wastes Will Arnett and Maura Tierney is an abomination. Maura was hot in Newsradio but I think E.R. is sucking the life out of her. Shes looking a little long in the tooth. I am so long in the tooth that its not a tooth anymore its a tusk. Still I’d be happy to fling some Boom Boom Chicka Boom Boom on her if she asked me nice. I know, I’m a romantic at heart. Dont even watch Semi-Pro on basic cable. Even when your bored, and bedridden, and ill, with the green apple squirts. Even if you have to crawl to change the channel, do it. A trip to the emergency room is preferable to Semi-Pro.

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