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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 9701
Released: December 29, 1998 |
| Our Price: $3.18 |
| Used Price: $1.73 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
WHEN BEST FRIENDS, COOP AND REMER, INVENT A GAME PLAYED IN THEIR DRIVEWAY, THEY HAVE NO IDEA IT WILL CATAPULT THEM INTO THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT AS HEROES OF THE LATEST SPORTS CRAZE, BASEKETBALL. BONUS FEATURES: THEATRICAL TRAILER, TALENT BIOS, PRODUCTION NOTES, WEB LINKS AND MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS.
Description of BASEketball:
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
BASEketball Reviews:
Best movie everrrrrr 
2008-12-30 - I love Matt and Trey. But I guess you'd have to find their voice expressions humorous- otherwise it's just "dumb". If you watch the south park DVD seasons with commentaries on, you might change your first impression of the show or the writers. It's far more thought provoking, its just masked in obcenities. This movie was not the best I will totally admit that, but you have got to love their effort. If you're not a fan of Team America or South Park you should probably pass. If you don't know what South Park is...you need to start from the basics.
TOTALLY TOTALLY AWFUL!!! 
2008-09-02 - I saw this when it came out, watched it once--but not all the way through and then got rid of it. It was SO very tacky. It was very, very low budget. Poor acting. Ignorant.
These guys need to stay behind the scenes and do South Park. Their over-the-edge humor and voices are more histerical than their acting.
Stay away from this film. (gag) And watch South Park instead.
Awwww!! Aww!!! 
2008-07-29 - Just got this on DVD and forgot how funny it was. Great cameos. Particularly Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a living souvenir punching the clock at the end of the day! Awesome to see all the great actors sharing Matt and Trey's humor, but how did they pull off getting all those people into this movie at the time? Great to hear some of the familiar South Park voices of Mr./Ms. Garrison and Cartman in there as well as Stan Marsh's disgusted "Awwww!! Aww!!!" line. Hilarious!
Awesome comedy!!!!
2008-05-20 - If you enjoyed watching south park the movie and the show. then you will really like this movie. Its funny in every way. they did an awesome job with this movie.
watch it twice
2008-02-23 - or watch it again and again, it gets better every time. the subtle comedy is great
