Semi-Pro: Review By ruggid.k

Semi Pro, Semi funny? This one will sit with Blades of Glory and not with Will Ferrell's other greats like Elf, Old School, Anchorman or Talladega Nights. Jackie Moon (Ferrell) the owner, coach and star player of a Michigan team called the Flint Tropics. There's nothing legit about Jackie. He bought the Tropics with the loot from a lewd disco song, "Love Me Sexy," that made him a one-hit wonder.

Semi-Pro has an R rating that liberates Ferrell from being family-friendly, as in a foulmouthed poker game that ends in a Russian-roulette stunt out of The Deer Hunter. Finally nice to see him curse again.

Almost every charater in this movie holds his own including Monix (Woody Harrelson) a former bench warmer for the Boston Celtics, hired by Jackie to whip the Tropics into shape. André Benjamin aka Clarence "Coffee" Black, once again proves himself as a comedic actor. Andy Richter as a locker-room attendant and especially Andrew Daly as the team's aching-to-be-hip announcer had me at the first giggle. It would have been nice to see some cameo's from Ben Stiller or Owen Wilson like they have done in other movies.

I was very generous with the 4 stars, i do think this movie could have been so much more.