Synopsis
Jackie Moon is the owner, promoter, coach, and star player of the Flint Michigan Tropics of the American Basketball Association (ABA), the worst team in the league. In 1976 before the ABA collapses, the NBA plans to merge with the best teams of the ABA at the end of the season. Only the top four teams will make the move and the worst teams will fold. If the Tropics want to make it to the NBA, Jackie Moon must rally his team and start winning.
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Cast
- Will FerrellJackie Moon
- Woody HarrelsonMonix
- André 3000Clarence
- Maura TierneyLynn
- Andy DalyDick Pepperfield
- Will ArnettLou Redwood
- Andy RichterBobby Dee
- Rob CorddryKyle
- Matt WalshFather Pat the Ref
- Tim MeadowsCornelius Banks
Recommandations
- 70
Variety
Very much in the tradition of "Slap Shot," George Roy Hill's raucously funny and foul-mouthed 1977 laffer about the misadventures of a minor-league hockey team, Semi-Pro scores big laughs with the rowdy play-by-play of hard-luck hoopsters struggling for professional survival. - 60
Village Voice
What at least distinguishes Semi-Pro from its predecessors (not only those starring Ferrell, but also such lesser lights as "Dodgeball" and "Balls of Fury") is that it's a slightly darker movie--one made for grown-ups, hence the R rating. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
The comedy is sloppy, crude and contains far too many misfires, but the film does capture the old ABA spirit in its ungainly struggles to wrestle laughs from seriously mediocre material. - 58
The A.V. Club
Deserves credit for attempting something more emotional and dramatic than the typical Ferrell gagfest, but Harrelson and Benjamin's earnest subplots cost the film comic momentum and big laughs without adding much in return. - 50
ReelViews
Instead of a satire, they give us a tired, tedious victory-for-the-underdog story, and the unevenness of Ferrell's comedy makes it less appealing. - 42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Semi-Pro is the perfect name for this movie, because it feels like a half-baked comedy made by semi-professionals. - 40
Washington Post
Andre Benjamin, Woody Harrelson, Maura Tierney and David Koechner -- all talented -- seem amazingly zombie-like here. And Jackie Earle Haley, as a stoner fan of the Tropics, is more disconcerting than funny. - 38
Chicago Tribune
The court scenes are rarely funny, either in the trash talk or the slapstick.
