Surprisingly average

Rating: 5/10 (25 August 2009)

Recap: A one hit wonder artist uses his new found fame to buy the local basket club Tropics in Flint. He takes over as coach, but also as a player. Fortune and public interest fade, but at long last he might be able to fulfill his dream, to bring his team to the NBA. To do that he only has to make his partying ego centered players into a team and bring the audience back. No easy feat.
Comments: Another day at the job, that was what it felt like. It's uninspired and mostly pointless. A few bright jokes lift the movie but it has a far way to go to even compare to other Ferrell comedies. Ferrell himself is surprisingly uninspired. He that is a master on comedies like these and able to carry them by himself seem tired and uninterested. He doesn't stand out at all. Instead it is only Woody Harrelson that seem to care, and seem to invest anything in his character. Most other seem to do it by routine only.
Saved by a few fragments of bright, actually really funny jokes. Otherwise my rating would have been much lower. But too many other supposedly funny scenes jokes is only pointless and incomplete. Also, in a comedy so dependent on the actors it need much more from them.
I think everyone involved can do much better, and this can hopefully be forgotten as a lone mistake.
5/10