BASEketball

Plot synopsis:
Somewhere around the beginning of the 21st century, sports like football, baseball, hockey and basketball have fallen in decline as competitive play was replaced by an ever-growing corporative play, to the point where teams could change cities, stars were easily traded like 'hired guns of the Old West', stadiums became huge outdoors and even prison inmates were chosen to integrate sports teams. All of this, combined with unchecked violence and no genuine game, alienated true loving sports fans whom abandoned sport loving, which yearned for a hope at revival that'd soon come in the most unexpected way possible.
Coop (Trey Parker) and Remer (Matt Stone) are 23 and unemployed. They arrive uninvited at a party hosted by a former high school classmate. After finding that their classmates have matured, Coop and Remer find themselves outside drinking beer and shooting hoops. Two former classmates challenge them to a game. The two see that their opponents are very good at basketball, so they say they will only play a new game they picked up while secretly inventing the rules (based on basketball as well as baseball) as they go along and winning the new game, which also includes psyche-outs - ways to disrupt the game without being considered cheating. While the game isn't taken seriously, it slowly grows in popularity while Coop and Remer adopt Kenny 'Squeak' Scolari (Dian Bachar), a former gas company employee whom isn't taken as seriously as the other two.
Six months later, Businessman Ted Denslow (Ernest Borgnine), enticed by the game itself, shows up to propose the creation of the National BASEketball League (NBL), with numerous rules in place to prevent this sport from deteriorating as the other sports had done: teams cannot switch cities, players cannot be traded, and individuals cannot make money via corporate sponsorship deals. It's also completely open to all publics, with Denslow stating 'anyone can be a sports' hero'. Coop hesitates, but comes to accept, realizing the opportunity in hand.
Five years after creation of the league, the NBL is in full swing with stadiums, teams, fans, cheerleaders (most half-naked) and a major championship, the Denslow Cup. They even have a major network television contract (though it is never made clear which network it is) with Al Michaels and Bob Costas as the announcers. During the 1997 championship, Denslow, who is the owner of the Milwaukee Beers (in reference to real-life baseball team, Milwaukee Brewers) for whom Coop and Remer both play, dies choking on his hot dog, which causes Coop to miss his shot and the Beers to lose the finals. Denslow's will grants Coop ownership of the Beers for one year - if they do not win the next Denslow Cup, ownership reverts to Denslow's widow Yvette (Jenny McCarthy). Meanwhile, Coop and Remer meet (and eventually fight over) Jenna Reed (Yasmine Bleeth), who is head of the childrens' Dream Come True Foundation. They also get an opportunity to approach her through one of her children, Joey (Trevor Einhorn), who's an avid fan of BASEketball.
The greedy owner of the Dallas Felons, Baxter Cain (Robert Vaughn), wants to change the rules to allow corporate dealing, teams to move cities and players to switch teams, but could not accomplish this while Denslow was alive. Yvette, shown to be easily swayable, would've complied had she been given ownership of the team, but Coop refuses to accept any changes. Cain and Yvette work to make sure the Beers will lose the next Denslow Cup and Yvette will win ownership of the team. Cain starts with slowly convincing Remer to make a deal, which has the rest of the team start alienating from Coop, thinking his traditionalist management is denying the Beers their opportunities.
Afterwards, Cain, realising Coop's relationship with Jenna, cuts the funds to her foundation, forcing Coop and Remer to ask Cain for help. Cain suggests creating a clothing line but Coop is entirely against it, but Remer, as part team owner, immediately agrees, and becomes so obsessed with his newfound fame that he alienates Coop. After they win the league semifinals, Cain informs Coop and Remer through photos that their clothing line has been produced through child labor in Calcutta. If the public finds out the team and Jenna's foundation will be ruined. Cain threatens to release the photos unless Coop and Remer lose or forfeit the Denslow Cup game, effectively losing the Beers ownership. Jenna learns about the child labor scandal and breaks it off with Coop. Coop blames Remer for the mess, while Remer blames Coop for saying no to Cain's proposals in the first place. They fall out, and Coop goes to Calcutta to resolve the situation.
Coop replaces all the child workers in the factory with adults and makes it back just as the fifth annual Denslow Cup begins. The Beers start with an abysmal performance, failing to make one hit in six innings. At the seventh-inning stretch, the Beers are down 16-0, and Coop and Remer continue to blame each other and fight. Having had enough, especially after a cerimonial play, Squeak gives both a pep talk, reminding them of where they came from, what they did that changed their and everyone else's lives and what they were risking losing. Squeak's speech is so moving that Coop and Remer reconcile their differences and Yvette breaks off her alliance with Cain. Coop, Remer, and Squeak finally get back into the game and start scoring.
In the bottom of the ninth, Remer is on second, Squeak is on third, and Coop is up when his custom-made BASEketball (La-Z-Boy) pops. Joey brings Coop a new custom-made BASEketball made from a Barcalounger. Coop misses, but successfully completes the conversion, which is considered a home run for the win and the Denslow Cup. Coop and Jenna reunite while Remer hooks up with Yvette, as the team happily carries Squeak on the Denslow Cup.
After the credits have rolled, Al Michaels and Bob Costas repeat the Coop and Remer "Dude" argument from earlier in the film and the movie ends as they draw the curtain and are seemingly about to kiss.

Tags: cult, comedy, entertaining, humor

Review:
While others have depended upon making fun of too many famous scenes in almost random movies (take "Mafia!", please), this film tells a new story with likable characters.
Even for people who don't care for "South Park," its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, make a good pair of leading actors with natural chemistry.
The film also makes extremely effective use of cameos of athletes, sports announcers, and other celebrities, especially a hilarious bit with Robert Stack of "Unsolved Mysteries." By the way, stay through the credits for a final joke with Bob Costas and Al Michaels.
David Zucker manages to make us all laugh our heads off again, in a really silly, but many times smart, comedy.The 2 creators of South Park, the main actors in this film, play very good, surprisingly good actually, but this is the first time i see them as actors.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park and the new puppet masterpiece Team America) star as the main characters Joe Cooper, or Coop "Airman" Cooper, and Doug Remer, or "Sir Swish." Mainly they're just referred to as Coop and Remer throughout the movie.
The sick minds of the creators of South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, bring you BASEketball.
Plot outline (From IMDB)_____________________________________Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer (Parker & Stone), invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules.
Coop & Remer's team, the Milwaukee Beers is the only team standing in the way of major rule changes that the owner of the Dallas Felons (Vaughn) wants to institute._____________________________________The Acting is pretty good, since there arn't many big stars in this movie.
Although I am not a big fan of 'Southpark', Parker and Stone do a pretty good job in their first real movie.
You could be forgiven for thinking that Baseketball is nothing more than a low-brow gross-out comedy (and you may have a point!), but, also like South Park, it has its moments of satire and social commentary that raise it to more than just Trey and Matt's version of 'American Pie.' The jokes come thick and fast and, if you've seen Trey and Matt in action, you'll realise that they're basically playing themselves.
This movie is really underrated, one of the the best comedy movies ever, it's about two below average American guys (Joe Cooper and Doug Remer) who are good at nothing except scoring basketball points from the standstill position, so as a they were challenged by two rivals in a party to play a two-on-two game, knowing their limited capabilities they convinced the other team to play it in a new way , the BASEketball way, and from here a new game is invented and spread across the nation.
the film is really funny, the acting is bad but it makes the movie even better, the jokes are new and you can't stop laughing for the whole movie, I was astonished to find this rating for a movie that has a lot in common with the overrated dodge-ball, only it's funnier..
But I actually laughed while watching BASEketball.The story is about two best friends who take a game that they created and and played in their backyard, to an official national sport.
They then face problems along the way and try to solve them.The primary characters are Joe Cooper - played by Trey Parker - and Doug Remer - by Matt Stone.
The movie then cuts five years later where Remer, Cooper, their friend nicknamed "Squeak" (Dian Bachar) for his notably short size, and numerous other guys have formed a Baseketball team called the "Milwaukee Beers", parody of the Brewers.
David Zucker + Trey Parker/Matt Stone = Hysterically funny Airplane-style comedy from the master of the genre.
So what if it isn't as deadpan as the others, I can't really find anything to dislike about the film.The film's "plot" revolves around two best friends Joseph "Coop" Cooper (Trey Parker), and Doug Remer (Matt Stone), who had big dreams as kids, but for some unspecified reason, became loser , time-wasting slackers who are always late at paying bills.
The game soon becomes a national pastime, and recruiting their friend/perpetual victim, Kenny "Squeak" Scolari (Dian Bachar) also known as "Little Bitch," the trio become big sports stars, and face the temptation and corruption that occurs behind the game, putting the friendships to the test.The "plot" is merely a setup for a constant stream of jokes and gags.
I'm coming to a conclusion that this movie was made for the new generation of silly gag-a-minute comedies, and adults who were alive during the release of the older films of the genre will ultimately dislike it.
And it works well.South Park fans will be pleased to see Trey Parker and Matt Stone in starring roles, which they actually do really good in.
Nobody could have played their characters better than they did.Being a fan of South Park and David Zucker, I was thoroughly satisfied with this film.
I can only guess the reason why adults hate it so much is the fact that the movie practically wallows in bad taste, and features some of the most offensive (hilarious) jokes ever put to film, many of which involve young kids who are crippled and/or terminally ill.
but it was well worth it.The movie is pretty much what you would expect from a cooperation between Parker & Stone and David Zucker, which basically means politically incorrect humor with a lot more happening than you can absorb with a single viewing...
Base is More Like It. On the 1998 summer blockbuster hit BASEketball (1998): "This is one of those movies that is usually seen on the big jumbo-tron screen in a sports bar during the day - when everyone is quite drunk.
You take the creators of "South Park," Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who are fortunately not behind the movie but in front of the camera, the only member of ZAZ David Zucker helming the picture in desperate need of a paycheck, and the other two Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker clearly stayed out or probably warned him against the picture, a small bit by now 90 years young Ernest Borgnine, wasting his precious time in his distinguished career, dying on a hotdog and singing "I'm Too Sexy" as he videotapes his will, Jenny McCarthy, who has little screen time as Borgnine's not-too-weeping trophy widow young enough to be his granddaughter, a bigger female part by Yasmine Bleeth as a dedicated social worker whose charges are underprivileged youngsters, and the only interesting and meaningful player in this turkey, Robert Vaughn as a corrupt archrival, and pointless cameos by "Airplane!" alumni Kareem Abdul Jabaar and the late Robert Stack who seemed nostalgic for the 1980 masterpiece and it's much fresher humor created by the ZAZ family.
A desperate cast and crew trying to replicate "Airplane!" humor and mixing it up with the crudity of "South Park," but failing in every way.To make this long 100-minute movie short, "BASEketball," a real game invented by David Zucker and his friends in his hometown of Milwaukee, is about two lazy losers (Parker and Stone) and their pint-sized mutual friend who invent baseball and basketball (hence the title) together on the driveway of one's house.
ten years ago, at age of 12 - I used to like flat jokes around that time.The main disappointment in BASEketball is watching great man like Trey Parker: creator of the really fantastic, full of good jokes, show "South Park", also writer/director/leading actor of funny "Orgazmo".
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the show 'South Park' , return with something entirely different.They create a new sport that combines baseball and basketball.This sport is known as baseketball.It's like basketball except that the rules of baseball are involved and there's another letter e in the title.Here's how you play: you just shoot the ball while these two guys try to distract you from making the shot.Sounds simple.In fact, I might try it one day.After the game hits the streets, it soon becomes a huge success.Who would've known that 2 immature friends could invent a sport that became so successful?My opinion'Baseketball' is a very crude and silly spoof filled with lots of slapstick violence, yet it actually delivers some laughs and plenty of entertainment.A definite recommendation for those of you who like slapstick and rude humor..
This is the first film for Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park creators) as actors, and although that shows, they do a pretty good job.
It stars Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park.
The film is fairly funny and it satirizes professional sports very wittily in some instances, but it eventually boils down to another cookie cutter storyline that lacks that thing called originality.BASEketball has a great opening.
Then it goes on to introduce the two main characters and I will say that Parker and Stone are pretty funny in this film.
Parker and Stone are very funny and I definitely think they need to star in more films together.
No wonder Trey Parker & Matt Stone didn't liked their own movie BASEketball.
At the time, I was just getting into "South Park", and I knew that Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of that long-running adult cartoon series, starred in this sports film.
This is a silly, juvenile, crude film, like many other modern comedies, not that I have a problem with that (as long as it's funny), but some people obviously do.
There were still several comic highlights for me, including a number of the scenes involving teammate Squeak Scolari (played by Dian Bachar, who has collaborated with Parker and Stone on several other projects) taking abuse from Coop and Remer, some of the psych-outs during the games, team members trying to treat a kid in the hospital, and the song Coop hears in the car when things have gone wrong for him.
In an interview in 2005, Trey Parker said one of the two meanest things people say to the controversial comedy duo is, "Oh my G*d, it's those guys from BASEketball." I don't know if the two SP creators hate this film and now regret ever doing it, or they just don't like being known just as the guys from this movie (that would definitely be understandable, since they just starred in this film, and were not involved in the writing, directing, or producing, so it certainly doesn't show the full extent of their abilities), but whatever the reason is for their comments on this 1998 comedy years after it was made, it can still make me laugh.
How can it not be given that this movie stars the creators of South Park and is directed by David Zucker?
if you 14 to 20 then you will love it and anyone over 20 will to but I found it very boring this time round but maybe I should have left this film as a one watch movie to leave a fond memory behind but it has been ruined but that's the way it is.OK but not as good as I remembered..
The previews for Baseketball didn't make me want to rush to the theatre, but I assumed a movie featuring the South Park guys *had* to be pretty funny.
What its About: Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer (Trey Parker & Matt Stone), invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules.
But when they must win a BASEketball title, or they lose their professional team to a rich greedy owner.Will Kids Want to Watch it?: Once they hear that it stars the creators of the hit popular TV show South Park they will want to see it.
Two longtime friends responsible for inventing a new national sport attempt to keep their game pure and free of corruption in this vibrant comedy starring 'South Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
(Trey Parker) looks terrible in this long yellow hair and (Matt Stone) seems repugnant more than funny to say the least; actually both as the leads were between weak and average.
Most of the jokes throughout are really dumb and only a few of them work.The Psyche-Outs are by far the best gags in this film, but that's probably thanks to the South Park boys themselves.The biggest problem with this film is the story, which resorts to too many sporting-movie clichés and is not very interesting.However, Matt and Trey try their best with the shoddy-material, and it's because of them that the film actually turns out to be an entertaining one, as long as you turn your brain off.This film is worth seeing if you want to find out why Matt and Trey regret making it so much.
There's nothing seriously wrong with `BASEketball' (the blind kid, the drinking session before the operation, the SF team) but you have to expect more from the creators of South Park and the director of `Airplaine!' and `Naked Gun' movies.
Joe Cooper (Trey Parker) and Doug Remer (Matt Stone) are owners of that sport's most successful team, and have to fight against the evil in tempts of tycoon Baxter Cain (Robert Vaughn).
South Park creators and stars Trey Parker and Matt Stone as the creators of this game are great together as they are on the show and in other movies.
**Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Yasmine Bleeth, and Dian Bacher.Two men create a new form of sports.
Two childhood loser friends Joe Cooper (Trey Parker) and Doug Remer (Matt Stone) invent a hybrid sport at first to win against a couple of jocks.
I must say that I expected a lot when I heard that this was a movie from the director of the "Naked Gun" and with the creators of "South Park" playing in it.
Not that I thought this would be a refined comedy, but I sure hoped to have plenty of laughs with it.When two losers called Coop and Remer, can't get a girlfriend and see how the athletes and other sports jocks do get all the girls they want, they invent their own game called 'Baseketball'.
This is that kind of movie.Joe Cooper (Trey Parker) and Doug Remer (Matt Stone) are two friends from school who are heading to a reunion when the movie starts.
Of course, that said, I'm also quite the fan of "South Park" and the "Naked Gun" movies,so this film figured to tickle me easily.
To me, the determining crux to whether or not you enjoy this film is whether or not you can appreciate "South Park" because it,like this movie, very much bear the quirks of their stars/creators.
But it isn't like that, it starred South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
It stars the creators of the controversial cartoon show, "South Park," played by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
"Naked Gun" and "South Park" brain trusts (that's a good) come together for this silly, rude and ultimately shallow parody-styled bomb as two losers (Trey Parker and Matt Stone) come up with the titled athletic activity (a strange combination of baseball and basketball).
The sarcasm often used in South Park is a bit lighter and when they start bringing in their own characters voices in the film it feels like a cheap way of getting the South Park fans to laugh, like me.But I still think it has some fun jokes and a pretty odd plot which makes a bit unique but it's still hard to like it when it's this glorifying, I can't find a better word for it.
The magic of the sport of BASEketball is gone and Cooper tries to bring the magic back into the game.Directed by David Zucker (The Naked Gun Part 1 & 2, Scary Movie Part 3 & 4, My Boss's Daughter) made an entertaining, often funny comedy with some big laughs.
This movie is one of my favorites for many reasons including the ability of Trey Parker and Matt Stone to tackle any subject and present it in such a juvenile way that you can't help but laugh and say "it's true." It's only made better by the cameos in this movie made by big name stars like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Reggie Jackson, Bob Costas, Al Michaels, the list goes on and on.
I'm a big fan of South Park so I always knew that Trey Parker and Matt Stone would once again, have me in stitches.
BASEketball the genius work of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone has to be the funniest film i have ever seen, it is pure brilliance from start to finish.
The film follows child hood friends Joe Coop (Parker) and Doug Remer (Stone) as there driveway game of BASEketball (a cross between baseball and basketball) becomes a national phenomenon and they make it into the big leagues trying to win the Denslow Cup named after billionaire funder of the sport Ted Denslow who has an unfortunate death near the beginning of the film (Hilarious).
There were a lot of funny jokes mostly at the beginning but there were sometimes later in the movie where it made me laugh..
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.
considering this film stars Trey Parker and Matt Stone(the creators of the long running animated series south Park it's surprisingly not as crude or disgusting as you might think.Maybe David Zucker(director and co-writer) reined them in a bit anyway,Parker and Stone play two lifelong slacker friends who come up a new game combining elements of Baseball and basketball.i found it entertaining and funny.
(1991) and South Park (1997-Present) creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone who need no exclamation points.
Director David Zucker actually invented the game of Baseketball years ago and attached Parker and Stone by telling them they're going to make a Hollywood movie out of the stupidest idea he could think of.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, star in this hilarious comedy with silly 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' or 'Airplane' type comedy.