BASEketball

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Summary: Hillarious, absolutely brilliant
Review: Top this is a great filmm the plot is inventive an all the characters are top this is wonderful for the South park fan and sports fan

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Summary: Dude! BASEketball is a sweet movie!!
Review: "BASEketball" is falling down funny!! I seriously laughed my a** off!!! I LOVED it!! it just shows that Matt & Trey can do other stuff besides South Park,they didn't nelgeted the show it's like Hollywood thinks all Trey & Matt does is South Park. I'm a fan of South Park but I love Trey & Matt and their work. And F*ck the MPAA(They rated Orgazmo NC-17 and trying to rate the South Park movie NC-17)and the crtics they wouldn't know comedy if it bit them on the a**!! I like the idea that BASEketball pokes fun at greed in the sports world,and the hillarous scene with Robert Stack in Unsolved Mysteries. I loved the phyche outs done by Coop & Remer and I first discovered Dian Bachar in this movie,he is so cool I liked him in Cannibal!:The Musical and check him out as Choda-Boy in Orgazmo, Trey & Dian kicks a** doing martial arts. BASEketball is an unsual game created by David Zucker and amazinly this game is actaully being played on driveways and this movie deserves an audience it's NOT for people that gets easily offended or takes things so seriously. If you're a fan of David Zucker,Matt & Trey or South Park this is the movie for you.

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Summary: HILARIOUS FUN.
Review: This movie hits the realm of todays sports right on. It shows how sports has become less of a game and more of show. It goofs on all sports showing them how stupid they really look at times. You will laugh hard watching this. If you like Airplane and south park youll love this

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Summary: Wait, you want Parker and Stone as actors and NOT writers?
Review: I assumed that "BASEketball" was written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone since it starred Trey Parker and Matt Stone. But it turns out this 1998 comedy was written by director David Zucker ("Airplane"), Robert Locash ("Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult"), Lewis Friedman (first screenplay credit) and Jeff Wright ("Rupert Patterson Wants to be a Super Hero"). Why you would go and get the creators of "South Park" to be in a movie they did not write seems strange, but Hollywood is not exactly a bastion of sanity and reason.

The really weird thing is that if Parker and Stone had written "BASEketball" then my thoughts on the films would be consistent with what I have found of other examples of their humor. To wit, what they write for others is always a lot funnier than the stuff they write for themselves. From "Cannibal!" to the introductions they do for episodes of "South Park" on DVD to appearances at the Academy Awards or anything else, Parker and Stone are not as funny as what they come up with for the "South Park" gang.

There are some wickedly funny bits in "BASEketball," particularly at the beginning when we get a recap of how professional sports has deteriorated to the point where games are played by overpayed, egotistical jerks. It is a great set up for a movie that takes satirical jabs at modern sports, but then this movie goes off in a different direction. Coop (Parker) and Remer (Stone) are a couple of slackers who have accomplished nothing since high school. At a party with a lot of their former classmates they are challenged to a basketball game. The two can shoot, as long as it does not involve jumping or dribbling, so they suddenly invent this game that combines baseball and basketball with a heavy dose of heckling and spraying of fluids on shooters to distract them.

The grand conceit is that the game catches on: big time. Suddenly there is a professional league and a world championship, with means there is a kind hearted team owner, Denslow (Ernest Borgnine), his trophy wife, Yvette (Jenny McCarthy), and the evil rich guy, Cain (Robert Vaughn), who wants the sport to generate more profits. Then there is the beautiful Jenna (Yasmine Bleeth), who works with a charity foundation, that helps sick kids get their dreams to come true. This is how Coop meets young Joey Thomas (Trevor Einhorn), which allows the story to work off of all those stories of stars doing things for sick kids, but also sets up a conflict as Coop and Remer both fall for Jenna.

The best parts of this film are where the target is modern professional sports than standard sports and romance movie situations. I think all of the big laughs come from the people who show up to play themselves, especially the sports reporters like Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Tim McCarver, Dan Patrick, Kenny Mayne, and Pat O'Brien. Dale Earnhardt gets a nice cameo and so does Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, albeit without saying a word. But all of this bits are like decent "Sportscenter" commercials, and seem somewhat at odds with the rest of the film (as opposed to being integrated like they are in "Dodgeball"). The commentary on the narrative is funnier than the narrative itself, which is not how you want to go, which is why "BASEketball" ends up bouncing off the rim (which is not necessary the end of the game according to the rules of this one).

Ultimately, the problems might not be that Parker and Stone did not write this film, but that Zucker really invented this game and played it with his friends on his driveway. The game takes over from the idea of satire into being played out on its own logic, but then without following it to its logical end. Why is Kenny "Squeak" Scolari (Dian Bachar) always the third player on the Beers? Why would you not be spraying milk or whatever into the face of a shooter every single time? Is there a limit to how many times you can hit somebody with a board, or is that just wrong? What do the referees do besides roll around on skates?

Wait a minute. I am now complaining about the game rather than the movie (or at least about the way the game is depicted in the movie). That cannot be right.

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Summary: One of the funniest movies ever!!!
Review: This is one of the most quoteable movies I have ever seen. It's one of those movies you see with some friends and 5 years later you are still ripping off lines from. It is over the top and kinda immature but it is hillarious. You just have to sit back and not think too much. The dvd doesn't really have any worthy special features, but if you are a big Trey & Matt fan, or a South Park fan give it a whirl. You just might like it.

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Summary: God help me. I love this movie
Review: This movie is very funny. I had just seen Orgazmo which definately had potential but just didn't make me laugh so I was a little hesitant to see another movie staring Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It's the little things that get me. The gross out jokes are the ones who caused this movie to not get the full five stars. Not a fan of the gross out but the rest of the movie more than makes up for it. Regardless of what some think, Trey and Matt are two of the most intelligent comedians out there and even this movie had some of that intelligent comedy. Movies are for enjoying folks, not all of them have to shove some kind of message down your throat.

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Summary: Not to compare it to Schindler's List...
Review: ...but this is a very funny movie. I'm a firm beleiver that a superlative action movie or gross-out comedy is worthy of accolades as much as a superlative drama, and that's why I give BASEketball 5 Stars.

This is not art, be warned. This is not even intelligent humor like some of Christopher Guest's work: this is lowbrow, gross-out, 4-letter word humor. However, this is not Freddy Got Fingered, there is humor here and a lot of it. Celebrity cameos abound, from Bob Costas to Reggie Jackson, although Robert Stack may have the funniest. South Park creators show surprising acting ability and comic timing, although I think their show is brillaitn, so it's not too much of a stretch to preform in a movie like this.

(...) perhaps you should watch the film again and appreciate it for what it is: almost always funny and often hilarious. My 50 year old father was in tears in some sequences, and he's an elitist snob (though I love him.) 9/10


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Summary: Zucker + Parker + Stone = one shpedoinkle movie
Review: What an agreeable combination. Zucker's slapstick direction works perfectly with Trey Parker and Matt Stone's irreverent abandon. Oh, you will laugh. You will laugh till it hurts and then you will laugh some more.

Parker and Stone are absolutely hilarious. They are so comfortable together and it shows in their performances. The gags are timed dead-on (Zucker style) and they keep coming fast and furious.

If you like BASEketball and have not seen Trey and Matt's other movies, you should definitely see them as well. South Park is my favorite followed closey by Cannibal! The Musical. Orgazmo is also funny as hell.

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Summary: Dude.
Review: 1998 was a good year for comedies, with two of my all-time favorites: The Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski, and the Trey Parker/Matt Stone/Zucker brothers BASEketball. I know these movies couldn't be much more different, but they're both funny for their own reasons.

BASEketball has earned its place over the last 6 years as one of the most quotable flicks in my life. All the sports movies cliches are intact, from the slow motion ending to the "we have to win or we lose the team" plot, to less obvious things like the fact that there are about 8 guys sitting on the Beers bench, but only three of them ever actually play. Plus, it's loaded with cameos from some famous athletes like Reggie Jackson, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and a bunch of sportscasters. Yasmine Bleeth and Jenny McCarthy provide the eye candy, while Robert Vaughn fills the role of evil villain, and Ernest Borgnine is the aloof owner of the Beers.

BASEketball starts out as a sport that even under-achievers like Joe "Coop" Cooper (Parker), Doug Remer (Stone), and Squeak Scolari (Dian Bachar) can play. It soon blossoms into a nation-wide phenomenon. And hilarity ensues. Unfortunately, most of the funniest moments can't be recreated here on Amazon, but that's actually probably a good thing. If you like any of the work by the guys involved with this movie (Airplane!, Kentucky Fried Movie, Orgazmo, South Park, etc), you'll definitely enjoy BASEketball. And with Dodgeball doing well in the theater, you owe it to yourself to check out this one.

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Summary: funniest dvd
Review: I'm a big fan of South Park and this dvd is one of my favourites. When I first saw it , i was like oh cool a movie with the guys that made south park. Then I saw Reel Big Fish in the movie (wich are my favourite band) So i was really happily surprised plus it has the "Take on me" video by RBF Kick ass dvd