Disappointingly lame comedy

Rating: Null/10 (4 January 2002)

When a sport played in front of their garage is picked up as a national sport Coup and Doug become professional sportsmen in a league where professionals mix with less professional. When the owners of the Beers dies he leaves the team to Coup if he can win the next season. TV executive wishes to gain control of the team and make the sport fully professional and more profitable and begins to work to cause the team to lose. This effort from the creators of South Park is a pretty hit and miss affair - unfortunately it's mostly misses. I find South Park very funny and I thought the movie they did was great, similarly I love the Airplane and Naked Gun style of humour that David Zucker does so well. So I assumed that I would easily like this. The plot is unimportant in all these type of things - here it something about keeping ownership of a team in a meaningless sport - but it's the jokes that matter. Unfortunately many fall flat. There are some good lines and some funny background jokes but the majority of it isn't very funny. It's a shame because the funny bits are very good but I forgot them because the majority of the jokes are lame. The best stuff are the background stuff like the team names (The Miami Dealers!) and a lot of the stuff that goes on in away from the plot such as commentators' comments etc.
The performances are pretty pointless in these spoofs, but Parker and Stone do alright with mostly poor material. Ernest Bourgine doesn't do himself any favours and looks a bit stupid (I'm too sexy!) but some of the other cameos are good. Robert Vaughn has a great role and gets plenty of funny jokes, in fact he appears to have got the best role of the film. Robert Stack, so great as Kramer in Airplane, again has several good scenes. The rest of the cast is filled out by beautiful women, Yasmin Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy etc, who don't really have anything to do. Unfortunately at times the most interesting performances are those of the beautiful, scantily dressed cheerleaders at the baseketball matches! Overall a disappointment which is a shame given the comedy talents involved. Most jokes are mediocre with only a hatful of real belly laughs. Worth watching - but even South Park and Airplane fans will be disappointed with this.