great satire on sport

Rating: 8/10 (15 November 2005)

The world of sport has lost its meaning. Sports stars have lost joy and love of the game; caring more about the big bucks and the dealerships from companies. Its not until two friends; Coop and Remer create a new game that takes the world by storm. It baseball crossed with basketball; BASEketball. We have come to the end of the fifth Denslow cup and the Beers; Coop and Remer's team, have lost the game. Making it worse their owner how made Baseketball huge; Ted Denslow has died, chocked on a hot-dog. In Denslow's will the team goes to Coop; instead of Denslow's new wife Yvette. But the team reverts to Yvette if the Beers lose this season. Baxter Cain wants to change BASEkeball so that teams can earn more money, but Coop wont change the ideals of the game; where members cant switch team and they all earn the same amount of money. So Baxter and Yvette join together to make the Beers lose.
This movie has that great Zucker comedy to it; which made the naked gun movies so great. What makes this movie good is that there is this satire on the sports world; fickleness of fans, themed sports night - free range chicken night is just a brilliant idea. But the opening sequence has so much truth to it. Many sports lately have become more about the money and the spectacle of winning; it has lost the honor and dignity that use to make sports great, but now all the morals have gone.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone fit perfectly into their roles, its just tailor made for them. But that said the acting is nothing special, its so over acted, but thats the charm to it. The comedy runs at such an even pace, its constantly punching out great one liners and sick humor. Its just a riot some of the situations that arise; and the psyche outs are just awesome, some are so wrong.
This is a great comedy on the world of sports, though the satire isn't completely explored, its still makes you think about sports today.