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BASEketball Dir: David Zucker Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Yasmine Bleeth, Robert Vaughn, Jenny McCarthy, Ernest Borgnine. BASEketball is the worst thing a comedy could possibly be - simply not funny. It's not that it's a bad movie. It starts promisingly enough with a documentary-style analysis of pro sports, and there are laughs here and there. Still, the whole thing is about as compelling as a PBS special on toe fungus. For a minute, you might think it involves you somehow, but you'll be flipping to Baywatch any minute. Which is, by the way, where co-star Yasmine Bleeth does her best work. Expectations for the film and its marriage of David Zucker with the guys who kill Kenny every week - Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They do seem to fit well together, but the project itself? Two losers invent a game to impress chicks at a party and it winds up sweeping the nation, wresting sports away from the millionaires and giving it back to the blue collar guys. Put it this way - if Kevin Costner had made this film, it would have cost five billion dollars, and everything would be set on a giant, floating UPS boat. Get the picture? The guys valiantly struggle through dick and fart jokes and every sports cliche in the book. Jenny McCarthy does her best dumb blonde and Yasmine Bleeth does her best caring, sensitive brunette. The bad guy is evil, and eventually, good triumphs. Granted, the Zucker brothers' previous works, from Airplane! to the Naked Gun series, weren't exactly high concept, either, but the gags and style carried the film. When the gags aren't funny enough to do that, you start to notice the holes a bit more. On the much narrower positive side, Stone and Parker seem really comfortable on the big screen, as their teary and tounguey reunion in the final scene suggests. And they do seem to fit neatly into the Zuckers' genre of comedy. But the bottom line is that BASEketball just can't score. Do yourself a favor - rent Airplane! and watch South Park reruns. -Nick |
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