| BASEketball | 
 enlarge | Actors: Kareem Abdul-jabbar, Dian Bachar, Yasmine Bleeth, Ernest Borgnine, Bob Costas
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  187 reviews
Sales Rank: 1374
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 103
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD20430D
ISBN: 0783230338
UPC: 025192043024
EAN: 9780783230337
ASIN: 0783230338
Theatrical Release Date: July 31, 1998
Release Date: December 29, 1998
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Product Description
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. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 06/21/2005 Starring: Trey Parker Matt Stone Run time: 104 minutes Rating: R Director: David Zucker
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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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 TOTALLY TOTALLY AWFUL!!! September 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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!!! July 29, 2008
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!!!! May 20, 2008
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 February 23, 2008
or watch it again and again, it gets better every time. the subtle comedy is great
easily in my top 10 comedies of all time February 9, 2008
Seriously, this movie is really hilarious. I like to put it in a category of "films you can't take seriously" along with movies such as "Airplane" and "Mafia." There are lots of scenes in this movie that portray things that obviously wouldn't happen in real life but it's not supposed to matter because it's there for one reason and one reason only: To Make you Laugh!!! (if you are indeed not an uptight a-hole.) If you want to know what I'm talking about, go to the scene with Mr. Denslow and the hot dog and you'll see exactly what I mean. Outside of that, however, is an undeniable sense of intelligence, wit, charisma, and loads of creativity within the minds of Stone and Parker. With this movie, Team America, and even the evolution of South Park, if you watch closely enough you should be able to sense that they're not just a bunch of idiots who write comedy about nothing, there's normally a point. In this film, the point is to poke fun at spots in contemporary America and show that it's really just become all about money, as does many things, and that it's not played for the love of the game anymore, and in this baseketball league, they do their best to not sell out and play simply for the love of the game. But, throughout the movie, they do a lot of things that really have nothing to do with that moral, but are utterly hilarious anyway so it doesn't even matter. That's what I love most about these guys and their movies and show: They seem to have fun doing whatever they're doing at all times!
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