Semi-Pro

Semi-Pro, 3 out of 4 stars

Will Ferrell and his team in "Semi-Pro". Are they Pro? Just wait and see.

Semi-Pro is a comedy directed by Kent Alterman and stars Will Ferrell. The story of this film is set in 1976, it sounds like this is a true story but it's not. From the beginning of the movie, it started with a song called "love me sexy" sing by Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell). Jackie Moon is a singer, and he used the profits from the song to form a basketball team in ABA (American Basketball Association). He formed his team and the team called the Flint Tropics. One day, the ABA commissioner has announces that the ABA will be merged with the NBA. He told Jackie that there is only 4 teams will be absorbed into the NBA and the rest of the league will terminate operations. Tropics, is the worst team in the league and is impossible to make it into the NBA. So, Jackie has to do something to make his team to reach the top 4 in the league. But after few days, the commissioner told Jackie that his team must also have a stable fan base and must have 2000 fans attend in every games of the season. So, having a great talent in promoting, he begins to promote his team by wearing animal suits, dancing at the basket ball court and others. Then they play the games to make their team to the top 4. From the first 10 minutes of the movie, I found out that this film is not really funny for me, the jokes are quite lame actually, but the movie started with the song "Love me sexy" and I like it very much, the lyric is very funny and because of this song, it cover up the joke which I think is not funny. Until now, I still thinking about this song. This movie has a goofy plot, when almost reaching the middle of the first half, the movie started to have fun and I laugh all the way until the end of the movie although some parts are stupid and gross. Besides that, I like the spirits of the Jackie Moon in the movie. He give his team a strong spirits, tell them how to teamwork with each others and also three words "ELE" which is "Every body love everybody". Will Ferrell who also act in "Blades Of Glory", he done a good job by giving the sense of humor in this film. His acting is nice but still not as great as in "Blades of Glory", he didn't use his full talent to give the audiences more surprises and it feels like some of the idea are already seen in his previous film. Overall, despite having a goofy plot, this movie is really funny and enjoyable. I really enjoy every minutes of this film.

Witless Protection

Witless Protection, 1 out of 4 stars

Larry the cable guy and Ivana Milicevic star in this witless film, "Witless Protection".

Witless Protection, is a comedy directed by Charles Robert Carner. The story is about a small town sheriff, Deputy Larry Stalder (Larry the cable guy). One day, he's having an afternoon tea with his friends, then suddenly he spotted a high class woman named Madeleine (Ivana Milicevic), she has surrounded by four mysterious FBI agents. He knows something is wrong about them, so he set a trap and trying to save the women by kidnapping her. After that, he found out that Madeleine is actually a witness of one of a crime case in Chicago. Then both of them have to travel to Chicago to solve the case. First of all, all I want to say is this is one of the worst film in 2008. From the beginning of the film, it looks friendly to us, and some scene are laughable. After a while, you will found out that this movie is really stupid in the way you cannot imagine. This film has a lot of stupid conversation and that was still fine, but their action, their technique they solve the problem, and their mindset is really stupid. I didn't spent a lot of time laughing in this film when I watch through the whole 1 hour and 30 minutes. I think there is about 30 seconds of the scene from the movie that I really laugh which is from the beginning and after the first half of the movie . After the end of first half, it started to become a bit boring because of the stupid plot and it sometimes very insulting. But the only thing I like is the chemistry between Larry and Madeleine in this film, which is quite nice actually and the rest is a trash. This is really a soulless film. Overall, this film is really mindless, witless and it is consider one of the worst film in 2008.