Feb 2008, Kent Alterman, 91 mins
What happens when you make a stupid comedy that has a lot of laughs and Will Ferrell? You get Talladega Nights. What happens when you make a stupid comedy with one laugh and Will Ferrell? You get Semi-Pro.
Arguably one of the laziest comedies this side of Lets Go To Prison, Semi-Pro is a basketball comedy that should have been red-shirted. I haven't seen a movie waste 85 minutes this badly since the second half of Matrix Revolutions.
First off, the script was humorless from the start. Will Ferrell can take a bad script and make a funny movie (see Blades of Glory) but nothing was going to save this air ball from being a disaster.
The basketball was bland, the acting painfully unfunny, and the overall feel was stale and unnecessary.
What the film did have going for it were some great previews prior to the start of the movie. Step Brothers and The Guru look like great comedies. Too bad the movie that followed had only 1/3rd of the laughs the 2 minute long previews had.
Poor show.
