Comments on: Video: “Semi-Pro” trailer

By: Griz

Griz — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:10:08 +0000

I think Will’s primary motivation is money. I think his proposed method of attaining that money is to throw a bunch of crap up against the wall and see what sticks.

By: TwinkietheKid

TwinkietheKid — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:53:54 +0000

And is Ferrel going to just keep this up until he runs out of sports to do movies about or what?

daviddunn on December 8, 2007 at 1:09 PM

Likely, and sadly for us, not until he dies of old age.

By: oldelpasoan

oldelpasoan — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:05:14 +0000

Where are the conservative comedians ? The DirectTV Comedy channels has to be blocked on the remote. Mostly because of language, alone. Then, I recall the harrangue of anti-Bush, anti-republican, and anti-conservative that that channel always broadcast.

By: Tzetzes

Tzetzes — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:15:39 +0000

Woody Harrelson is a schmuck.

By: aengus

aengus — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:47:42 +0000

Hahaha that should be good.

By: daviddunn

daviddunn — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:09:54 +0000

I like Will Ferrel okay, but I don’t like that his brand of comedy has become popular enough that just about every comedy that comes out now is some real over-the-top expanded skit instead of, you know, a real movie.

All the Ferrel comedies and many others behind him now are just like a skit on Saturday Night Live expanded into a feature.

Comedies didn’t used to be like that. Ghostbusters, Spies Like Us, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and other modern comedies from the eighties could not have been “skits” on Saturday Night Live – they were actual movies with real plots and funny stuff coming from the plots, not an “outrageous skit character” expanded into a whole film.

And is Ferrel going to just keep this up until he runs out of sports to do movies about or what?

By: Jim-Rose

Jim-Rose — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:28:43 +0000

YES!!!

By: Hening

Hening — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:28:32 +0000

Do you still have to pay to see movies?

By: sabbott

sabbott — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:14:34 +0000

Will Ferrell is about as funny as Jim Carrey and I’ve seen my last movie of either of them. Sorry, they are not funny!

By: Fandango

Fandango — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:22:21 +0000

You have to be a mental defective to like Will Ferrell’s Movie’s……..Which I am! So I look forward to this one. None of his work is fine art but sometimes you just need mindless diversion.

By: Egfrow

Egfrow — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:26:19 +0000

All of Will Ferrell’s characters are exploiters of mediocrity. Where the average and inept are glorified to be special.

By: MirCat

MirCat — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:02:51 +0000

We need a new Abbot and Costello movie.

- The Cat

By: spec_ops_mateo

spec_ops_mateo — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:08:51 +0000

Crap

By: CliffHanger

CliffHanger — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:00:09 +0000

No doubt Will will be semi-nude in Semi-Pro.

Blechh!!

By: clghitis

clghitis — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:55:11 +0000

There are no sure things in life, my friends, except death, taxes, and Mike Huckabee.

You left out Mike Huckabee raising taxes

By: mesablue

mesablue — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:54:22 +0000

That looks horrible. I’ve liked most of Ferrel’s movies, but that’s not even going in the Netflix queue.

By: StuLongIsland

StuLongIsland — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:29:20 +0000

Nah, The Billy Carter Autobiography coming out soon, staring Drew Carey as Billy Carter, Sean Penn plays one of his idols Jimmy Carter

By: John from OPFOR

John from OPFOR — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:06:17 +0000

damn. Ham stole my comment. Any flick featuring Outkast has my vote. Um, y'know, minus Idlewild and all that.

By: ThackerAgency

ThackerAgency — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:04:54 +0000

Dude, I was totally rolling. Ferrel is a comic genius. This is going to be hilarious! Thanks for the clip.

By: World B. Free

World B. Free — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:22:01 +0000

Wow. This is like a cross between Boogie Nights, Anchorman, Kingpin, and the Harlem Globetrotters. Sign me the hell up.

As for Ferrell, the only thing he’s done that I haven’t liked are his “Funny or Die” sketches, which are generally kind of lame. Otherwise I think he’s pretty brilliant, in an everyman kind of way.

By: Bad Penny

Bad Penny — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:22:00 +0000

Got a Basketball Jones

I had that single! I remeber my dad humming the song and being annoyed because he had it stuck in his head. If he’d seen that video/cartoon, he woulda had a stroke.

By: Bad Penny

Bad Penny — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:19:10 +0000

Not sure why, but I kept hoping Tim Meadows would appear and kick Jackie’s butt.

By: greggish

greggish — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:14:30 +0000

Whenever I see any clip of something with Will Ferrel in it I can always tell how much of it is Ferrel’s writing by how unfunny it is. Obviously he was very involved in the writing of this one. It’s too bad. He’s a very funny actor but is not at all a funny person. How did he get it in his head that he’s a comedian?

By: Slublog

Slublog — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:09:18 +0000

i think, much like that ice skating movie, we saw the best parts in the trailer.

Probably.

The bear thing made me laugh, though.

By: RW Wacko

RW Wacko — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:06:44 +0000

This could have been funny. But it isn’t. That sucks!