This movie is a ripoff

Rating: 3/10 (23 January 2016)

I can't believe no one here has made a comparison between this and the 1977 movie Slap Shot starring Paul Newman. Anyway I first watched this movie as a kid and loved it for the violence, the weird humor, and what I though was an original story. However; Semi Pro is not original in the slightest it stole everything from a little movie from the 70's called Slap Shot.
Semi Pro like Slap Shot has a plot which features an underdog team who are going to be disbanded at the end of the season because of their losing streak and poor track record who then decide to start improving their game, but also start fights between their rival teams which makes no sense because they were playing basketball not a sport known for it's overly violent behavior between rival players. But I digress, and besides, when I first watched it, I knew almost nothing about professional basketball.
Anyway, they get a new player or players and he or they help the team drastically improve their game and consequently also get more fans. Things start to look up for the protagonists but then then the coach takes a visit to the team's owner or whatever and finds their team will be disbanded regardless of if they win or not. Then as the cards seem to tipped against them, but things turn around they win the game gets the trophy and become a new team. Which is the exact same plot as Slap Shot with some minor differences. Now Semi-Pro may try to add in more humor like fighting a grizzly bear or the team dressing up as fruity sea creatures and other failed attempts at humor. While Slap Shot on the other is a little more subtle with its humor, though you'd be hard pressed to call anything in slap shot, subtle, though it is when you examine it and it produces some honestly funny moments where most people find themselves laughing and not just spaced out stoners and nimrods who find Dane Cook and that puppet guy funny.
In conclusion, this movie fooled me as a kid, but don't let it fool you it's a cheap ripoff of another infinitely better movie made to make money.