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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Like so much in this life, Will Ferrell's comedies tread the razor-thin line separating smart/stupid from stupid/stupid. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Aside from Kicking & Screaming, this is probably Ferrell's weakest comedy to date. Read more
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: I laughed from start to finish at its relentlessly, energetically profane absurdity and a cast crammed with funny actors in even the smallest roles. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Ferrell still brings the funny like few superstars in his salary range, but there's a distinct decline in quality between the hilarious Anchorman, the sloppy but funny Blades Of Glory, and this affable, moderately amusing trifle. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Will Ferrell's latest comedy splits time between being a goofy basketball movie and . . . a whole bunch of other stuff, none of it particularly interesting. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It does get the funk out ya face for 86 minutes. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: An orgy of disco-era excess, it's also an interminable exercise in beating a dead horse. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: It's long on shorts but short on punchlines. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Ferrell is pretty much the whole show. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Technically, it's not a foul to shoot a stupid sports comedy. In fact, it's becoming something of a routine maneuver for Will Ferrell. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Semi-Pro is precisely that: a movie that is sort of professionally made and sort of professionally acted with no serious expectations beyond earning money and offering audience members some passing entertainment. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Judging from this low-scoring sports comedy about the mystique of men with balls, Will Ferrell needs to call a time-out from belly baring to refocus his fan-favorite game of playing clueless male doofuses. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: Ferrell is capable of a great deal more than he's been delivering. It might surprise him to learn that white men can jump. But first they have to try. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: You keep watching Semi-Pro and waiting for its potentially hilarious setup to deliver the goods. And after a while, you realize that the laughter comes only in anticipation of a payoff that never quite arrives. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: The semifunny Semi-Pro is amiable enough, but you never feel there's much at stake. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: For die-hard Ferrell fans, this could be the ultimate test. He has been playing variations of Elf for five years, and his antics have grown as stale as Jackie's socks. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Semi-Pro goes up for the dunk and misses the hoop, the backboard and the point. Instead, it manages to both strike out and get sacked. Whose idea was it to remake Slap Shot a la Jerry Lewis? Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Semi-Pro tries for semi-sweet when bittersweet would have been better, semi-silly when full-bore absurd was called for. And the final score? Semi-funny. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: I loved Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction; liked him in Old School and Talladega Nights. Yet, except for a skyhook or two, his work in Semi-Pro is strictly amateur. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: If you're on the prowl for a Ferrell yuk-fest, you'd do better renting one of his more successful comedies than spending money on this faux sports dud. Only die-hard fans of the SNL alumn will find anything worthwhile here. Read more
Michael Mehle, Denver Rocky Mountain News: A film with funny moments but just as many wasted opportunities. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: There isn't enough going on in Semi-Pro, comically or otherwise, to sustain the movie even through its first half-hour. This may be one of the most sluggish sports comedies ever made -- even the supposedly rousing final sequence feels belabored. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The real problem lies in the character Ferrell is playing. Aside from the unimportant detail that there really were no former disco stars in 1976, the character is vague -- and specificity of character is what makes Ferrell funny. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Erratic, overlong and repetitive, Semi-Pro seems not to have been written but sketched out in chalkboard diagrams before the actors took their marks in front of the cameras. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Ferrell is to the sports comedy what the Toronto Maple Leafs are to the hockey biz: Hard-core fans are sure to show up and find reasons to be amused. The rest of us can only hope for better days. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: You can't help but marvel, and laugh at, Ferrell's indefatigable enthusiasm and willingness to make a complete ass of himself. Read more
David Jenkins, Time Out: 'Semi-Pro' resorts to the bombast of brash 'infotainment' news and sports programming to mine its humour. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: There are some ludicrous sight gags and uniquely silly, if foul-mouthed, laughs. The movie falters when it tries to be serious. Fortunately, those moments are few. Read more
Joe Leydon, Variety: Very much in the tradition of Slap Shot, Semi-Pro scores big laughs with the rowdy play-by-play of hard-luck hoopsters struggling for professional survival. Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: In the end, it's comedy comfort food, something powdered poured from a box. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Our hesitation to identify [Ferrell] as the genuinely funny star of comedies such as Old School and Anchorman comes after seeing this actor's halfhearted, disconcertingly crude and only occasionally amusing performance. Read more