Movies like Semi-Pro (2008)
The best movies like Semi-Pro (2008) are Juwanna Mann (2002), Eddie (1996) and The Benchwarmers (2006). If Semi-Pro hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHustle (2022)7.7/10 from 2,975 votes
- NewestSweet Dreams (2024)Released 2024
Juwanna Mann (2002)
A basketball star is booted out of the NBA when his on-court antics go too far, so he poses as a woman and joins the WUBA.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisEddie (1996)
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. She takes the bunch of overpaid prima
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Benchwarmers (2006)
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBASEketball (1998)
Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop and Remer, invent a new game combining basketball with the rules of baseball. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. When a rival owner wants to institute major rule changes, Coop and Remer's team is the only one standing in the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKingpin (1996)
After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he uncovers the next big thing: an Amish kid named Ishmael. So, the corrupt and the hopelessly naive hit the circuit intent on settling an old score with Big Ern.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlades of Glory (2007)
When a much-publicized ice-skating scandal strips them of their gold medals, two world-class athletes skirt their way back onto the ice via a loophole that allows them to compete together as a pairs team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBad News Bears (2005)
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Replacements (2000)
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlackball (2003)
Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he manages to become regional champion, only to get banned. Sports agent Rich Schwartz picks him up and makes him so popular the Bowls Committee deem to lift the ban. Now the question is whether he can regain his form and his friends to beat the Aussies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)
When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a dodgeball guru and Goodman's attorney, La Fleur and his rag-tag team of underdogs launch a knock-down, drag-out battle in which the winner takes all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMajor League (1989)
When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer climate—but only a losing season will make that possible, which should be easy given the misfits she's hired. Rachel is sure her dream will come true, but she underestimates their will to succeed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGoon (2012)
Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling, is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate, his best friend, Pat, convinces him to give it a shot, and Glatt becomes a hero to the team and their fans, until the league's reigning goon becomes threatened by Glatt's success and decides to even the score.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHappy Gilmore (1996)
Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin — is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy's image.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMajor League: Back to the Minors (1998)
At the behest of Roger Dorn -- the Minnesota Twins' silver-tongued new owner -- washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as skipper of the club's hapless farm team. But little does he know that Dorn has an ulterior motive to generate publicity with a grudge match between the big leaguers and their ragtag Triple A affiliate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBeer League (2006)
An unemployed slacker inspires his softball teammates to improve their game to avoid getting kicked out of the local league.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisCeltic Pride (1996)
Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSlap Shot (1977)
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hammer (2007)
Approaching forty, Ferro is unsatisfied with his life as a construction worker and part-time boxing instructor in Los Angeles, CA. After a successful bout with a young pro boxer, Ferro decides to don the gloves one last time. The movie recounts his unlikely quest for Olympic gold.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Waterboy (1998)
Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLike Mike 2: Streetball (2006)
Another young boy with 'hoop dreams' finds an old pair of Michael Jordan's sneakers and can suddenly play ball like the greatest player in the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMr. 3000 (2004)
Aging baseball star who goes by the nickname, Mr. 3000, finds out many years after retirement that he didn't quite reach 3,000 hits. Now at age 47 he's back to try and reach that goal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLike Mike (2002)
Calvin and his friends, who all live in an orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to get the shoes when Calvin and the shoes are struck by lightning. Calvin now has unbelievable basketball powers and has the chance to play for the NBA.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ringer (2005)
Pressured by a greedy uncle and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve Barker resorts to an unthinkable, contemptible, just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged to rig the upcoming Special Olympics and bring home the gold. But when Steve's fellow competitors get wise to the con, they inspire him to rise to the greatest challenge of all: becoming a better person.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHustle (2022)
After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team's approval. Against the odds, they have one final shot to prove they have what it takes to make it in the NBA.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhite Men Can't Jump (1992)
Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSweet Dreams (2024)
Morris navigates his way through a mandatory stay at Sweet Dreams sober living. In an attempt to get his life back on track, he agrees to coach a misfit softball team of his fellow housemates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisNecessary Roughness (1991)
When the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they even win a single game?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
It's the 1970s and San Diego anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaddyshack (1980)
At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Semi-Pro?
The closest matches to Semi-Pro are Juwanna Mann (2002), Eddie (1996) and The Benchwarmers (2006). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Semi-Pro?
People who watched Semi-Pro most often go on to Juwanna Mann (2002), Eddie (1996) and The Benchwarmers (2006).
What is the highest-rated movie like Semi-Pro?
Hustle (2022), rated 7.7/10 by 2,975 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Semi-Pro?
Sweet Dreams (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Semi-Pro?
Yes: Juwanna Mann (2002), Eddie (1996) and The Benchwarmers (2006).
How are movies similar to Semi-Pro chosen?
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