BASEketball . Tucson Weekly . 08-10-98

BASEketball

DIRECTED BY: David Zucker

REVIEWED: 08-10-98

South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone have teamed up with Naked Gun creator David Zucker for another exercise in gag-a-minute filmmaking. While the requisite boobie and pee-pee jokes are very much in evidence, Parker and Stone breathe new life into the enterprise with their subversively cloying brand of comedic acting. Like Zucker, they'll do anything for a laugh, even if that means French-kissing each other or nakedly standing around wearing the kinds of prosthetic devices that would make Mark Wahlberg cry. Their willingness to humiliate themselves makes everyone else's humiliation a lot more forgivable. The premise, too, is fresh: Instead of yet another by-the-numbers genre parody, the movie invents a new sport that's so absurd, non-sports fans may enjoy it more than aficionados. Though the film doesn't exactly reinvent the lowbrow comedy, it's cute enough to place it a cut above its recent competitors. With cameo appearances by Bob Costas, Robert Stack, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Reggie Jackson and Jenny McCarthy.

--Woodruff

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