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Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, André Benjamin, Maura Tierney, Andy Richter, DeRay Davis

Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true.

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  • April 7, 2009
    This is really a lame sports comedy. We've seen so many films like this now, especially with the 70's look going on, its extremely old and cliched. To make things worse this isnt even funny, only two occasions actually made me laugh, the rest of the time its just kinda dull.
    All ...( read more)the characters, looks and ideas have been done before, Ferrell has played this same charcter afew times now and its getting boring. Harrelson has made much better with white men and Kingpin, the latter being a truely brilliant sports spoof of sorts.
    This is just Talladega Nights with basketballs, the only impressive thing was Harrelsons wig.
  • March 6, 2009
    I liked this movie more than I expected. It wasn't like a lot of movies, where three stars points to a let down, it's just a case where this is no Anchorman, and probably suffers as a result. A few of the scenarios in the film were more ridiculous than I could stand, and a few of...( read more) the scenes were too long and self-indulgent and by times - sorry Will, I still love you - unfunny. Enough big laughs, though, it could become a favourite "fun" movie. In passing, Woody Harrelson was good despite basically reprising his Roy Munson role from Kingpin, and Maura Tierney is still a poor man's Jennifer Aniston (not to mention a better actress).
  • February 11, 2009
    Andre 3000 put a layer of funk over the movie that all the jive turkey arm shootings and mascara couldn't mask. I give him a star
  • October 31, 2008
    Loved it despite the bad ratings.. If you are a Ferrell fan you should definitely enjoy this one. "Let's get Tropical!!"
  • October 11, 2008
    I expected much more. Where are all the laughs?
  • November 9, 2009
    Here is a goofy, virtually one-joke period comedy that makes you smile and chuckle and laugh out loud on more than one occasion, but little else. Maybe that's enough. Will Farrell stars as Jackie Moon, the Michigan-based egoist, a one hit wonder of recent disco music in 1976 who ...( read more)has become the owner-coach-player of the ABA's Flint Tropics. His team is in trouble, and with the ABA making preparations to merge (well, four teams will) with the NBA, Jackie finds his team has one last chance to prove themselves worthy of such a feat. His team includes Clarence (Andre Benjamin of OutKast), the talented black guy on the team; Twiggy Munson (Josh Braaten), the tall, heavy white guy on the team; and thanks to an unconventional trade, former NBA player Monix (Woody Harrelson) comes back to whip the team into shape. The team also gets support from color commentators DicK Pepperfield (Andrew Daly) and former player turned drunk Lou Redwoo d(Will Arnett). Unfortunately, Monix has a checkered history with local girl Lynn (Maura Tierney of "ER"), whose husband (Rob Corddry) seems to have an unhealthy infatuation with her one-time paramour; his reaction to walking in on them having sex is equal parts funny and disturbing. The film, directed by Kent Alterman and written by Scot Armstrong, is essentially an "Anchorman"-esque romp designed as a balls-to-the-wall vehicle for Ferrell's brand of goofy, knowing humor; as such, it isn't quite as laugh out loud funny after a while. The film looks like it takes place in the 70s, and the humor is there, but it's essentially a one-joke premise stretched out to an hour and a half. Still, it's pretty amusing for what it is.



    NOTE: The unrated version is 98 minutes on DVD.
  • November 3, 2009
    As every other Ferrell movie it has excellent funny moments, it's simple and quite enjoyable
  • October 29, 2009
    Not as great and funny as Tallageda or the blades of glory...or even step brother but it is okay...there are some funny parts to it also...so 2.5 is good enough...
  • October 24, 2009
    Semi-amusing. Not in the same league as Anchorman, but the film has it's moments, just not that many. Thought the commentators were great but the love interest of Harrelson was there only to pad the film out.
  • October 17, 2009
    Better then I expected it to be

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