Not half-funny. Will Ferrell joins his interest in the Seventies (Anchorman) to his interest in sports (Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory, Kicking and Screaming) in a relentlessly hard-sell comedy on the final season of the American Basketball Association before its merger with the NBA. The name of the focal franchise, the Flint Tropics, tells you how far from the plausible the filmmakers will stray in pursuit of a laugh. (No, let’s not forget the Utah Jazz or the Los Angeles Lakers, but neither let’s forget they were transfers.) With Woody Harrelson, André Benjamin, and Maura Tierney; directed by Kent Alterman. (2008) — Duncan Shepherd
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