Semi Pro

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

An amateur basketball team is in a league that's being merged into the NBA.
Best four teams get added to the NBA, the rest are dissolved. This particular
team are a gang of idiots and wasters led by Will Ferrell. They want to survive
as a team, and set their sights on fourth place.

So, it's a Will Ferrell Underdog Sports Movie. If I were to say to you "Will
Ferrell Underdog Sports Movie" then what immediately springs to mind will
probably be pretty much exactly it. Is it any good? Well, it's not bad. It's
pretty broad comedy, not a lot of subtlety in the same way as the moon's not
got a lot of oxygen. Within those bounds, I laughed often, and occasionally I
laughed pretty hard.

My advice is this: Go see Dodgeball, because that's a very good underdog sports
movie spoof. Then, go and see Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,
which is a funnier Will Ferrell Sport Comedy. If you enjoyed both, then next
time you're in the mood for more of the same, see Semi-Pro. If either film
struck you as too dumb to be bothered with, Semi-Pro certainly is. If you've
already seen them, you already knew what Semi-Pro is going to be like, before
I started writing.

7/10. Delivered what it promised, no more, no less.