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Movie Reviews of BASEketball
Movie Review: AIRPLANE GUYS + SOUTH PARK GUYS = THIS
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Movie Review: I love it, but it's not for everyone.
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie! I live in Australia and it went sraight to video over here, probably beacause it made very little money at the box office in America. But don't let either of these facts put you off. The only thing that should put you off this movie is if it's just not for you, which is pretty likey in today's political-correctness-obsessed society. But if you're willing to remind yourself that it's just a joke, and that they mean nothing by it, you may actually have a good time. Personally, I thought it was great. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the guys who created South Park, star as a pair of lifelong friends, and losers, who create a game which is a cross between baseball and basketball (hence the name BASEketball). They're not serious about it, and are just doing it for fun, but when a famous billionaire decides to sponser them to go pro, they become overnight superstars. From here on in, the whole thing becomes downright silly, one of the main reasons that I like it so much. It also becomes full of sight gags and gross-out humour, and this won't appeal to some people. It's not the type of gross-out used in Austin Powers or American Pie - it has just a little more bite than that, and will definitely cause offense somewhere on the planet at the best of times. But it's all in good fun, and so silly that it doesn't get nasty, and there's never any doubt that it's all make-believe.
The two leads are just great - really funny, with natural chemistry, because they are best friends in real life. Also worth a mention is Dian Bachar, who you might remember as the postman from Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place. He plays Kenny "Squeak" Scolari, best described in South Park analogies -the Stan to a pair of Cartmans. He is mainly used as a vehichle for the movie's cheapest slapstick gags, but he's also a believable character, and there were a couple of points where I really felt sorry for the poor little guy! The only performance that disappointed me was Yasmine Bleeth, but at the time I didn't know she had been on Baywatch, otherwise I would have expected bad acting (sorry Baywatch fans!). Her character Jenna has some pretty good lines, but they should have got someone who could deliver them well. Fortunately, all of the other performances were much better.
Anyway, you're probably sick of hearing what I have to say by now, so I hope I've inspired you to watch this movie. Like I said, you might like it, you might not, but I'd advise you to give it a try anyway.
Oh, and a message for any other girls out there who are reading this: Trey Parker is really cute. Not that that has anything to do with the actual movie, but I just thought I should express my opinion.
Thanks for reading my review. Party on! :)
Movie Review: If you loved Airplane, you will love this!
Summary: 5 Stars
To get this out of the way, I am not whatsoever a South Park fan. I saw it a few years back for the first time and I absolutely did not like it. I have never watched it since.Knowing that, I was afraid to see this because Trey Parker and Matt Stone make South Park. Well, from the two episodes that I saw, they didn't act the same way in this movie. The sick humor was there, but it was done differently.
The main reason I saw this movie is because David Zucker put this movie together, and I find him super funny. I rented this movie a few months ago, and during that one rental, I must have watched it 4 times.
Absolutely HILARIOUS! I was literally in tears rolling on the floor laughing. 3 others were watching it with me laughing as hard as I was.
If you liked the Airplane type of humor, with visual jokes and things going on in the background, or types of movies that require multiple viewings because you are laughing so hard you miss jokes, then this is great.
Keep in mind that kids probably won't get it because there is a lot of sex humor in it, but there are many other funny visual gags that ANY age could understand and find absolutely hilarious.
I found this movie to be every bit as funny as Airplane. I don't want to be like other reviewers and spoil it with different scenes, but all I can say is you will probably want to watch this at least 3 times to pick up everything. And even after you have heard the same jokes multiple times, they are STILL funny.
So for fans of Airplane and Naked Gun, you can't go wrong.
I still remember literally falling off the couch in tears from laughing so hard. Yes, it is THAT funny.
Movie Review: Dude.
Summary: 5 Stars
1998 was a good year for comedies, with two of my all-time favorites: The Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski, and the Trey Parker/Matt Stone/Zucker brothers BASEketball. I know these movies couldn't be much more different, but they're both funny for their own reasons.
BASEketball has earned its place over the last 6 years as one of the most quotable flicks in my life. All the sports movies cliches are intact, from the slow motion ending to the "we have to win or we lose the team" plot, to less obvious things like the fact that there are about 8 guys sitting on the Beers bench, but only three of them ever actually play. Plus, it's loaded with cameos from some famous athletes like Reggie Jackson, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and a bunch of sportscasters. Yasmine Bleeth and Jenny McCarthy provide the eye candy, while Robert Vaughn fills the role of evil villain, and Ernest Borgnine is the aloof owner of the Beers.
BASEketball starts out as a sport that even under-achievers like Joe "Coop" Cooper (Parker), Doug Remer (Stone), and Squeak Scolari (Dian Bachar) can play. It soon blossoms into a nation-wide phenomenon. And hilarity ensues. Unfortunately, most of the funniest moments can't be recreated here on Amazon, but that's actually probably a good thing. If you like any of the work by the guys involved with this movie (Airplane!, Kentucky Fried Movie, Orgazmo, South Park, etc), you'll definitely enjoy BASEketball. And with Dodgeball doing well in the theater, you owe it to yourself to check out this one.
Movie Review: Multi-faceted humor
Summary: 5 Stars
In the tradition of great shock based comedy, this movie's crass and offensive content masks subtle and clever agendas. The condemnation of the institution of sports, both for its decadence and for the distance of the players from the people who watch it.Monty python and Mel brooks are the earlier practioners of this kind of humor. The goal is merely to choose a single thing which is taboo and exploit it as a vessel in which to weave high social and intellectual comedy and low slap-stick and toilet humor. The presence of all elements together is extraordinary and delightful. The style of this movie, however, is far more accessible to American audiences. British humor is often remote and difficult to understand as it stands upon different cultural elements. Mel Brooks polished broadway style gives the toilet humor in his pictures a carnivalesque aspect which can rub people the wrong way. In Baseketball, you are merely watching two guys make a movie.
The jokes themselves vary from simply slapstick, to 'what the hell was that', and occasionally hit a subtle cord.
The movie is a simplistic story about an unlikely sport. It's essentially a sport movie with typical cliched theme. Dead billionaire leaves a team to the inventor of the game. Evil rich guy plots to take it away. You do not watch the movie for the plot, you watch it for the incidentals. South park is a decent measure of how you will like this movie: if you do not think highly of that series, you will most likely not enjoy this movie.