You can't help feeling that the whole project must have begun as an off-the-cuff joke which some studio executive took seriously and greenlighted.
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03/25/08
Baseketball (1998)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:20
Rotten:29
Average Rating:5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: From the creators of the Naked Gun series, and starring the creators of the South Park series, comes a spoof of sports and business and anything else that can draw a hearty laugh. Two best friends... [More]
Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy
Director: David Zucker
Reviews for Baseketball
Top CriticSadly neglected, high-gag comedy from the South Park lads.
01/01/00
Top CriticIs it dumb? You bet. Is it funny? Sporadically.
03/25/08
Degenerates into a tedious series of unamusing and rather forced gross-out gags.
01/01/00
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03/24/02
Top CriticTheir incessant, obscene banter is meant to be endearing; their total lack of presence makes it simply annoying.
03/25/08
The comedy sets up some very big targets -- the commercialization of sport, crass franchise owners, sentimental idolatry of players, exploitation of foreign workers by superstar merchandisers -- and then lobs tiny spitballs at them.
01/01/00
Adolescent boys, or anyone who loves the idea of an extended argument using only the word 'dude,' will no doubt best appreciate BASEketball.
01/01/00
Sadly underrated.
01/01/00
An inane, painfully unfunny comedy.
10/08/05
No review available.
05/06/05
BASEketball is a dog of a movie and that anyone paying to see it is hurting for a life. But then, you knew that.
01/01/00
No review available.
08/11/05
No review available.
12/10/03
In the end, the surprisingly funny, though vulgar, energy of the first 30 minutes, is traded for distracted and unfocused vulgarity, without the inspired lampoonery.
01/01/00
It's filled with solid comic performances, equally effective as both physical and verbal buffoonery.
01/01/00
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.
02/14/01
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01/01/00
There's plenty of ammunition for a satire of pro sports -- and BASEketball isn't it.
11/07/02
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