- Studio: MCA/Universal Pictures
- Release Date: Jul 31, 1998
- Starring: Matt Stone, Trey Parker
- Summary: Two losers from Milwaukee (Parker and Stone) invent a new game playing basketball, but using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they are thrust into the media spotlight, much to their chagrin.
- Director: David Zucker
- Genre(s): Sport, Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 18
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Mixed: 9 out of 18
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Negative: 6 out of 18
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BASEketball's effort and energy pay off with surprisingly abundant laughs and a few admirable shocks.
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60The vulgar, obvious humor of Zucker brother David and "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone elicits easy, guilty laughs, yet the material has an underlying innocence that's just shy of good clean fun.
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Satire goes 'south' in gross mismatch of hot comic duo and "Airplane" director. [31 July 1998, p. 46]
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38Starts promisingly as an attack on modern commercialized sports, and then turns into just one more wheezy assembly-line story about slacker dudes vs. rich old guys.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 14
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Mixed: 1 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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