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BASEketball's effort and energy pay off with surprisingly abundant laughs and a few admirable shocks.
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67Sick, twisted, and very funny, Parker and Stone have arrived. Again.
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63The pop-culture answer to a murder-suicide, the kind of flick that serves itself up as the object of its own satire.
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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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50Not half-bad. It's about three- quarters bad, actually, but what's left offers some goof-off fun.
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50Sports-satire misfire. [31 July 1998, p. 2E]
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50When I watch a comedy, I want it either to present endearing characters in fun situations or to make me laugh frequently. BASEketball accomplishes neither objective.
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50Is it funny? Sporadically.
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50Essentially two movies stuck together like chewing gum on a subway platform. One is a dumber-than-dumb teen comedy crammed with farcical sight-gags and raunchy adolescent humor, the other a no-holds-barred satire of professional sports, and the greed, egotism and pomposity surrounding them.
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50I was bored well before the end, but found the first half hour pretty funny.
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40BASEketball feels stale and inert. Still, Parker and Stone have a nice, giddy rapport, and it's a kick to hear traces of Cartman and Kenny in their dude-speak.
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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.
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Exhibits none of the infectious offhand tastelessness of their hit show and all of the insistent overkill of a Mel Brooks joke gone horribly wrong.
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Crude, stupid and unfunny.
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10The film degenerates into sophomoric name calling and a brand of insult humor that would embarrass Don Rickles.
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Some of the most heavy-handed, laughless, uninspired attempts at comedy since prime time. But I still dig “South Park.” Let’s forget this ever happened.
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At one point, Michaels expresses his excitement at the outcome of a game. "You're excited?" Costas yells. "Feel these nipples!" If you're old enough to see this movie without a parent or guardian and all that sounds encouraging, this review has failed, and failed badly.
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