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Amazon.com: Gross-out comedy reached its peak (or nadir, if you will) when this celebration of juvenile crudeness was released in the summer of 1998. There's Something About Mary was a surprise box-office smash at the same time, and it's a much funnier and (dare we say it?) more intelligently conceived comedy, but there's something to be said for a couple of dudes who blissfully embrace bad taste and improper decorum. As they proved with their popular cartoon series South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are shameless purveyors of scatological humor, and no bodily function escapes their baser instinct for gutter-level guffaws. Here they play a couple of guys who are fed up with the hyper-commercialism of professional sports, so they invent "baseketball"--a hybrid of baseball and basketball--and soon find themselves in the middle of a booming national craze. As baseketball leagues thrive, so does the movie's appetite for puerile shock-jokes and disgusting gags. There are some great throwaway lines and a lot of funny cameos by the likes of Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Stack, Reggie Jackson, and others, but let's face it--a little of this stuff goes a long, long way. If you laugh a lot, you may be suffering (as Parker and Stone clearly do) from an acute case of arrested development. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
- watch it twice: or watch it again and again, it gets better every time. the subtle comedy is great
- easily in my top 10 comedies of all time: Seriously, this movie is really hilarious. I like to put it in a category of "films you can't take seriously" along with movies such as "Airplane" and "Mafia." There are lots of scenes in this movie that portray things that obviously wouldn't happen in real life but it's not supposed to matter because it's there for one reason and one reason only: To Make you Laugh!!! (if you are indeed not an uptight a-hole.) If you want to know what I'm talking about, go to the scene with Mr. Denslow and the hot dog and you'll see exactly what I mean. Outside of that, however, is an undeniable sense of intelligence, wit, charisma, and loads of creativity within the minds of Stone and Parker. With this movie, Team America, and even the evolution of South Park, if you watch closely enough you should be able to sense that they're not just a bunch of idiots who write comedy about nothing, there's normally a point. In this film, the point is to poke fun at spots in contemporary America and show that it's really just become all about money, as does many things, and that it's not played for the love of the game anymore, and in this baseketball league, they do their best to not sell out and play simply for the love of the game. But, throughout the movie, they do a lot of things that really have nothing to do with that moral, but are utterly hilarious anyway so it doesn't even matter. That's what I love most about these guys and their movies and show: They seem to have fun doing whatever they're doing at all times!
- naked gun meets southpark: one of my top 5 alltime favorite comedies. it's an absolute riot. if you like naked gun movies and/or southpark, you will love this. i've seen it 100+ times.
- hillarious movie: This is a great movie for South Park fans or simply fans of Matt Stone and Trey Parker (the ones whom created South Park and who star in this flick). It's truly funny, though has times which are a bit crude. If you wish to watch something and roll around laughing (as well as you are open-minded and not easily offended by sexual innuendo and the like). The story line is ultimately about 2 losers whom wanted to look cool by creating a new game (a mix of basketball and baseball; hence the name) and by some miracle the game went world wide. This is a great movie for fans of movies like "Major League"
- What more can I say?: What more can I say about this comedic masterpiece. Is there anything that Trey Parker and Matt Stone can't do? They have looked into the face of adversity and farted right back at them Terrance and Philip style. This movie is a gem from start to finish. Trey keeps the slapstick going the whole time, something Family Guy likes to rip off of the comic duo often (as we have seen in a recent episode of South Park entitled "Cartoon Wars"). The best thing about this movie is Kenny AKA "Little Bitch." When I thought i could't laugh anymore, his character always took it too the next level (much like in Orgazmo as well).
To be honest, the minute I finished watching this movie I got my buddies together and tried to play this wonderful front yard game. It didn't last too long, but the laughs from this movie will.
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