A truly awful movie full of dirty humor and very few laughs.

Rating: Null/10 (8 July 2008)

We got the DVD from our public library. My wife saw 5 minutes of it and left. I watched the whole thing with two college students and we were mostly shaking our heads over how crude and unfunny most of it was. We all know that men, and maybe especially professional sports stars, often gather and discuss women and sex in rather crude ways, but do we need to see that in a movie? Fictional characters talking about various sex acts in graphic terms, just to try to be funny? No, I don't appreciate that kind of attempt at humor, and this movie is full of it.
Will Ferrell is Jackie Moon, owner, coach and nominal star of a very mediocre basketball team in the old ABA, set in the year that a few of the ABA teams were to be invited to join the NBA. Moon's team is poor, but they hope that they will be one of the 4 teams chosen if they can finish the season in 4th place or better.
Woody Harrelson is Monix, a guard, who they get in a trade for a washing machine. (That was actually the funniest joke of the movie.) Monix is a no-nonsense guy who becomes the defacto coach and whips the team into shape to start winning.
But the one bright spot for me was Jackie Earle Haley (little guy of early 'Breaking Away' fame as a 'cutter') as Dukes, who in very unlikely fashion wins a half-time full-court basket toss for $10,000. Unfortunately the team didn't have $10,000 so Dukes is given the standard poster-sized check which he is unable to cash. He is told, "Try a bigger bank." We see him several times more.
A few laughs but overall a poor movie, just too dirty for the sake of being dirty.