I'm surprised he didn't title this film "Flint Tropics: The Alley-Oop of Jackie Moon."

Rating: 3/10 (27 April 2009)

Does anyone besides me notice a pattern with Will Ferrell movies? His movies consists of the same things: sports (Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory, Kicking & Screaming, Semi-Pro), the 70's (Anchorman, Semi-Pro), being butt-naked, (Old School, Talladega Nights, Semi-Pro), overbearing main character (practically every film he's done, including Semi-Pro), even some of the titles look similar (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The Ballard of Ricky Bobby). I'm surprised he didn't title this film "Flint Tropics: The Alley-Oop of Jackie Moon." He's suffering from the Ben Stiller Syndrome: the illness that makes you do the same film in several slightly different forms.
I really wanted to like Semi-Pro, but it just feels like I've seen this too many times that I just can't enjoy it. Not that it's completely bad. Andre 3000 a.k.a. Andre Benjamin really fits right into the film as Coffee Black (cool name). And it's nice to see Woody Harrelson as Monix (he should be in films more often). And some of the humor was hit or miss. But WF needs to stop and try something different, like he did with Stranger Than Fiction. No more of films like these, unless there's a Coffee Black sequel.