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Baseketball
EMAILPRINTMCA / Universal Pictures
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 18 critic reviews
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Based on 13 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
David Zucker
Robert LoCash
Lewis Friedman
Jeff Wright
Directed by: David Zucker
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 31, 1998
DVD: March 4, 2003
Running Time: 103 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for strong language and crude sex-related humor
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar, Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Vaughn, and Trevor Einhorn
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.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
The Onion (A.V. Club) Stephen Thompson
BASEketball's effort and energy pay off with surprisingly abundant laughs and a few admirable shocks.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Sick, twisted, and very funny, Parker and Stone have arrived. Again.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
The pop-culture answer to a murder-suicide, the kind of flick that serves itself up as the object of its own satire.
Read Full Review >Variety Leonard Klady
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.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
Sports-satire misfire. [31 July 1998, p. 2E]
New York Daily News David Kehr
Satire goes 'south' in gross mismatch of hot comic duo and "Airplane" director. [31 July 1998, p. 46]
The New York Times Stephen Holden
Essentially 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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
I was bored well before the end, but found the first half hour pretty funny.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
When 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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
Not half-bad. It's about three- quarters bad, actually, but what's left offers some goof-off fun.
Read Full Review >Newsweek Jeff Giles
BASEketball 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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Bilge Ebiri
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.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
The film degenerates into sophomoric name calling and a brand of insult humor that would embarrass Don Rickles.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Dave Shulman
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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Jack Mathews
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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
James S gave it a10:
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.
Alex G gave it a9:
A superb film from start to finish, it packs a truely awe-inspiring explosion of zany humor with tiny gags to make you positively wet yourself,it's a shame this film isn't in the public eye more like Airplane or The Naked Gun, as the humor is just as good.
Bendik gave it a5:
This movie is so bad that it was funny.
Patrick gave it a10:
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.
Zach L. gave it a9:
This movie was great! Film critics just don't understand the whole "funny" thing, because even if a movie does seem stupid and childish, if it makes you laugh, it did its job. I don't think these guys were trying to do anything major, just make a funny movie, and I have to say they did just that.
Kurt P. gave it a1:
Everyone who gave this movie needs to go through puberty, or at least see super troopers.
Tom A. gave it a 10:
Hilarious
