Baseketball (DVD, 1998, Widescreen; Collector's Edition)

2000 - From the mastermind behind Airplane and The Naked Gun series comes BASEketball, an off-the-wall comedy from David Zucker. Not only is Zucker's oddball sense of humor in full effect in this movie, but it also stars the creators of South Park, so you can image just how wacky this one can get.

The Movie
Twenty-something losers Joe Cooper (Trey Parker) and Doug Remer (Matt Stone) create their own hybrid of baseball and basketball with the added "psyche-out" defense in their driveway, and it quickly becomes a neighborhood favorite. It soon becomes so popular that the neighborhood forms a league and baseketball sees its first full season, complete with a world championship game.

Fed up with the gross commercialism of professional sports, Ted Denslow (Ernest Borgnine) approaches Coop and Remer about forming a professional baseketball league where players would all be paid the same, multi-million dollar trade deals would be eliminated, and anyone with the desire to play could take the field. Coop and Remer agree and the National Baseketball League is born.

During the NBL championship game, Denslow chokes on a hotdog and dies, leaving control of the National Baseketball League in the hands of Joe. Rival owner Baxter Cain (Robert Vaughn) tries to tempt Coop and Remer with higher salaries and the promise of global fame. Though Remer is persuaded at first, he finally comes around to help Coop retain baseketball's integrity.

This is a typical Zucker film, so expect plenty of zany, sophomoric comedy bits with a lot of slapstick and often sick jokes. Overall BASEketball is incredibly funny and entertaining if you like Zucker's style, but the humor isn't for everyone.
7 out of 10

The Video
The 1.85:1 anamorphic transfer is superb with no artifacting or shimmering. The images are sharp and the colors are bright, with excellent separation and no apparent bleeding. Blacks are dark and deep while whites remain bright and clean.
8 out of 10

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.

Freakin hilarious movie about 2 shmoe low lifes who conjur a game at a party with rules that both define baseball, and deliver basketballs shot group. Matt Stone and Trey Parker are the guys that were most likely infamous in highschool, and show up at a party where everyone is wearing the "90's IN look"..They were clearly out-dated in clothing, realising this they shot some hoops...When challenged to play basketball by jockeys, the boys decide to come up with this never before heard of, "BASEKETBALL"...The sport grows, and once noticed as superstars, the friends split...THE REST IS FOR YOU TO SEE!!!!

5 OF 5 STARS!
BryanRSawyer

This is the story of a couple of slackers who wanted to impress girls by making up a new sport. This sport is Baseketball (basketball with baseball rules). Not only is the sport funny, but the adventure of the players is full of slapstick comedy and other gags.

I recommend this movie to anyone looking for a good laugh. Just be warned that it isn't for the kids. It's rated R for about every reason possible.

you just cant go without this one if you are a south park fan, the laughs are great and they keep coming from beginning to end, alot of this has to do with understanding that the movie has to be watched knowing that it is just slapstick comedy and stupid jokes that you can find the humor in just like lots of other films ya just need to be in a silly sort of mood when you watch it just like when you watch south park, sure the stuff can be tasteless at times but it really doesnt hurt anyone if ya laugh at stupid things just for them being stupid or silly