BASEketball

BASEketball is a 1998 American sports comedy movie directed and co-written by David Zucker and starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, along with Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Vaughn, Ernest Borgnine and Dian Bachar.

 Plot 
When slacker friends Joe Cooper and Doug Remer are challenged to a pickup basketball game against some jocks, they counter by proposing to play a game they learned called "BASEketball", which combines baseball and basketball. In reality, they are improvising all of the rules, but somehow the sport becomes a hit. A promoter whose name is Ted Densley forms a popular league, but after his death a rival owner named Baxter Cain wants to change the rules to increase profits.

 Cast 
 Trey Parker as Joe "Coop/Airman" Cooper
 Matt Stone as Doug "Sir Swish" Remer
 Dian Bachar as Kenny "Squeak/Little Bitch" Scolari
 Yasmine Bleeth as Jenna Reed
 Jenny McCarthy as Yvette Denslow
 Ernest Borgnine as Ted Denslow
 Robert Vaughn as Baxter Cain
 Trevor Einhorn as Joey Thomas
 Francis Xavier McCarthy as Dr. Kaiser (credited as Frank McCarthy)
 Bob Costas as himself
 Marv Albert as himself
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Andretti, Reggie Jackson, Charley Steiner, Cris Collinsworth, Tim McCarver, Pat O'Brien, Dan Patrick, Pantera, Victoria Silvstedt and Robert Stack make cameo appearances as themselves. Greg Grunberg, Kevin Michael Richardson and Max Casella also make cameos as athletes.

 Production 
Zucker had wanted Chris Farley and David Spade to play the respective lead roles of Joe and Doug, but cast Parker and Stone due to their work on South Park becoming a huge hit. The duo agreed to do the movie under the assumption that their show would be canceled by the time filming began.

 Reception 
On Rotten Tomatoes, BASEketball has an approval of 42%, with an average rating of 5.31/10 based on 52 reviews from critics. The website's "Critics Consensus" is "BASEketball isn't just a succession of fouls thanks to the comedic zip of David Zucker's direction, but sophomoric gags and a lack of performance hustle by Trey Parker and Matt Stone makes this satire a clumsy bunt". On Metacritic, the movie has a weighted average score of 38 out of 100, based on reviews from 18 critics, indicating "Generally unfavored reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the movie a grade B on a scale of A to F.

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Category:1998 comedy movies
Category:1990s sports movies
Category:American sports comedy movies
Category:Baseball movies
Category:Basketball movies
Category:Movies directed by David Zucker
Category:Universal Pictures movies
Category:Movies set in Wisconsin