Semi-Pro

Will Ferrell takes another shot at parodying sports. If you're a fan of the genre, he scores.

In “Semi-Pro,” Will Ferrell plays one-hit disco star Jackie Moon, who buys the mythical, oxymoronically named Flint (as in Michigan) Tropics, doormats of the American Basketball Assn., and installs himself as the team's improbable coach and starting power forward. Moon is not that different from Ferrell's other sports "heroes" such as Ricky Bobby in "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" or Chazz Michael Michaels in "Blades of Glory," with the actor again relying on the character's obtuseness and misplaced confidence to carry him through. [...]

di Kevin Crust, articolo completo (2830 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 29 febbraio 2008