Hoop failings

Rating: 3/10 (3 June 2014)

Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell) is a singer who had one hit with a crude disco song that made enough money for him to purchase a Basketball team in Michigan. Moon is the coach, player, owner, announcer in this struggling team in the ABA. He is reducing to pulling stunts to attract the crowds and his only hope that a merger of the ABA with the NBA will save him.
The film has a nice 1970s setting and the merger of the ABA and NBA is based on fact. However the film flops as a comedy as the laughs are few and far between. In fact I only found the bear wrestling scene with Kristen Wiig raised a laugh with me. Even the announcer scenes were largely predictable.
Like other Ferrell comedies the premise of the movie is absurd, the characters in the film are not well drawn and its main failing is that there was no comedy in the script.