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BASEketball |  | Director: David Zucker
Actors: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar, Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.99
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Rating:  190 reviews
Sales Rank: 8262
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 025192043024
ISBN: 0783230338
UPC: 025192043024
EAN: 9780783230337
ASIN: 0783230338
Theatrical Release Date: July 31, 1998
Release Date: December 29, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Two guys invent a game in their driveway that becomes a nationally recognized sport.
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Gross-out comedy reached its peak (or nadir, if you will) when this celebration of juvenile crudeness was released in the summer of 1998. There's Something About Mary was a surprise box-office smash at the same time, and it's a much funnier and (dare we say it?) more intelligently conceived comedy, but there's something to be said for a couple of dudes who blissfully embrace bad taste and improper decorum. As they proved with their popular cartoon series South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are shameless purveyors of scatological humor, and no bodily function escapes their baser instinct for gutter-level guffaws. Here they play a couple of guys who are fed up with the hyper-commercialism of professional sports, so they invent "baseketball"--a hybrid of baseball and basketball--and soon find themselves in the middle of a booming national craze. As baseketball leagues thrive, so does the movie's appetite for puerile shock-jokes and disgusting gags. There are some great throwaway lines and a lot of funny cameos by the likes of Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Stack, Reggie Jackson, and others, but let's face it--a little of this stuff goes a long, long way. If you laugh a lot, you may be suffering (as Parker and Stone clearly do) from an acute case of arrested development. --Jeff Shannon
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 Great Comedy! August 15, 2010
Lucas
Even though the movie was released back in 99, it still get funnier than ever! I totally recommend it!
This Movie is Laugh Your Ass off Funny June 18, 2010
Dottie A. Randazzo (Delaware, USA)
South Park Creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, know just the right amount of funny to add to a movie. I was surprised by all the famous people who showed up. Fast pace and right on. Great for the whole family. Highly recommended.
Greatest movie ever made!!!!!!! March 31, 2010
Michael Phan (Bay Area, CA)
This is my favorite movie ever. Some people just don't understand the pure genius behind it.
under-rated classic March 31, 2010
J. May (chicago, IL)
Somehow this film from the creators of Southpark and Airplane has slipped off everyone's radar. One of the absolute funniest films of it's decade, it would assuredly have had better commercial success with a release date in the late 00's rather than the 90's. Completely worth whatever super-cheap price Amazon is charging for the DVD.
AIRPLANE GUYS + SOUTH PARK GUYS = THIS December 21, 2009
fmwaalex (Austin, TX USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
BASEKETBALL
What would happen if the guys that made South Park got together with the guys that made Airplane, well you get this. This is a nice cross or hybrid of the two different camps style ad humor. There is a lot of that slapstick style Zucker is known for but Matt & Trey's humor is also in great abundance. When this first came out it did not get as much attention as it deserved, now it is considered a cult classic and I agree. As a fan of the South Park series and a huge fan of Zucker this could be nothing but a hit in my mind.
Coop and Remer have been friends since childhood and are just coasting through life, losers to some and cool to others I guess. On the day of a school reunion they challenge the "cool kids" to a game or is it vice versa? Either way they end up playing a game that the two make up called Basketball, which is basketball with Baseball rules. Throw in some psych out's and you have one of the most fun games ever. So what starts out as a block phenomenon grows into a national professional sport. The thing about this sport is that all players get pay the same and no teams can move to another city, s basically no corruption or greed. All that is in the process of changing once the man who funded it all dies and leaves it all to Cooper. The pressure starts on from the owner of the Dallas team to turn this sport into all the others, so our movie begins. The team starts to turn against one another, love interests develop, and good guys vs. bad guys starts to take effect.
Director David Zucker and fellow writers did a great job with this film making it one of the most fun movies I own. Everything can be found within this film from slapstick, to crude, to smart humor [it is there if you look] and so much more. Gag jokes galore and wonderful performances make this more than watchable multiple times. Trey and Matt do a wonderful job throughout the film giving excellent performances each. Trey Parker does a great job and really carries the film in a way as it is more about his struggle in the film. Matt Stones does an equally good job as his best friend and co creator of the game.
Dian Bachar is absolutely hilarious as the third wheel friend Squeak Scolari and possibly is a scene stealer. As a matter of fact everyone in this film does a great job and are funny, rare I think. This film is one of my favorites from Zucker and that says a lot, sure lately he has not been churning out the classics but I did love "An American Carol". Would I recommend this movie, yes I would undoubtedly. If you are not a fan of the people involved previous are later works you may not like this. With that I loved this movie and still do, and at this time right now I need to laugh so this is always on the list.
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