To be honest, I’ve never been a huge fan of Will Ferrell movies. Talladega Nights? Blades Of Glory? Elf? Bewitched? Anchorman?… all wack movies. Then we have to take the fact that Will plays basically the same character in every film, which means all signs point to yet another flick that I shouldn’t bother watching. However, the trailer for Semi-Pro still looked pretty good despite my reservations about Ferrell’s work.

Besides, after that horrible piece of crap movie Never Back Down, this couldn’t be that bad right? Right.

My prayers were answered, and overall Semi-Pro was actually very entertaining. There were more laugh out loud moments than I anticipated which was a pleasant surprise. I believe this film “worked” because it was rated R instead of PG-13. When you have a really silly movie like this, some of the jokes simply would NOT have worked if the film was edited to be “family friendly”. Ultimately, that R rating may have been a bad idea because Semi-Pro sorta flopped at the box office, but whatever, thats none of my concern.

DeRay Davis and Andre 3000 didn’t add much to the movie as far as comic relief, which was a letdown. Woody Harrelson probably gave the best performance of the film, playing the washed up has-been elder player. I cautiously recommend this film, meaning you should see it, but don’t go out of your way. You should catch it if someone else is paying, or if it’s coming on HBO one night and you have nothing better to do.

The Important Stuff:

How good on a scale of 1-10? - 7
Are the best parts of the movie in the commercial? – Kinda sorta, yes.
Any female nudity? – Sadly, no
Any killing/gruesome murders? nope