Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Prismark10 Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell) is a singer who had one hit with a crude disco song that made enough money for him to purchase a Basketball team in Michigan. Moon is the coach, player, owner, announcer in this struggling team in the ABA. He is reducing to pulling stunts to attract the crowds and his only hope that a merger of the ABA with the NBA will save him.The film has a nice 1970s setting and the merger of the ABA and NBA is based on fact. However the film flops as a comedy as the laughs are few and far between. In fact I only found the bear wrestling scene with Kristen Wiig raised a laugh with me. Even the announcer scenes were largely predictable.Like other Ferrell comedies the premise of the movie is absurd, the characters in the film are not well drawn and its main failing is that there was no comedy in the script.

Chris L First of all, and one may not know that, but the premise of the movie, the merger of the ABA and the NBA, is actually is a real fact. If you are a basketball fan, you will be pleasantly surprised by that side of the story.The 70's universe is very refined: looks, clothes, etc., and a special attention has been given to the soundtrack. Esthetically, Alterman met the challenge.The script is very classic with no real surprise. Everything unfolds smoothly but in a false rhythm that struggles to fully catch the attention of the viewer.The humour is very uneven and most of the gags fall flat. The absurd aspect characterizing Ferrell isn't that noticeable, maybe because he wasn't part of the writing team.

FlashCallahan It's 1976 in Flint, Michigan.Jackie Moon's American Basketball Association team languishes in last place, with few fans in the seats.Jackie dreams of a merger with the NBA. A tough-minded point guard named Monix is at the end of his career; he's played on the champion Celtics but accepts a trade to Flint to be close to Lynn, the love of his life.Clarence "Coffee" Brown dreams of stardom: he's the Tropics' best player, but he's a hot dog who doesn't value teamwork.When the trio learns that a merger is in the works that won't include the Tropics, they pull the team together to try to achieve the impossible....It's ironic that the lack of seats taken in the Tropics court, mirrors bums on seats in the cinema. It's by far the worst movie Ferrell has made, and there isn't one (in my opinion) funny moment in it.Ferrel has just done too many sport related movies which are either really over the top, or just too silly for their own good.It's to profane as well. Sure it's supposed to be an adult comedy, but it looks forced in this and swear words are just for laughs.It's predictable, boring and it dies a death at the end.Avoid.

Enchorde 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