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38 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 18 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.7 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 27 Ratings

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  • 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.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 18
  3. Negative: 6 out of 18
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Stephen Thompson
    70
    BASEketball's effort and energy pay off with surprisingly abundant laughs and a few admirable shocks.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Leonard Klady
    60
    The 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.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    38
    Starts 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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. JamesS
    10
    A very much underrated film. Very saterical towards sports and the industry around it. Plus has similar style of humor found in South Park. What's not to love? Now excuse me while I play Nintendo.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. Patrick
    10
    I don't understand how the original Scary Movie got pretty decent reviews yet this movie, which is far less childish and far less disgusting gets terrible reviews. This movie is not the send-up of pro sports it starts out to be, no. Zucker and Parker throw their satirical ability about like it was nothing, practically showing off, and yet they make the best underdog comedy of all time. People think Dodgeball is good? Perhaps it is. But if you don't like BASEketball, that's because you haven't arrived at that humor yet. It's a movie 10 years ahead of it's humor. If it came out this year it would be a hit.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. Bendik
    5
    This movie is so bad that it was funny.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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