BASEketball

1998 sports comedy

Rating: 8/20

Plot: Two losers invent a dumb game--a hybrid of baseball, basketball, and the Gong Show--and find fame and fortune when the game hits it big. But problems come with success, and the losers have to fight against outside forces that threaten to

I guess the "from the director of Naked Gun" should have given me enough of a clue. This isn't worth seeing. It starts out promising enough with some satirical jabs at modern professional sports and the failings of some of its heroes. But then it gets to the story, and it's all so typical, so predictable, and so entirely flat. I guess part of the problem is that the sport is so stupid, and unfortunately, it's not stupid in a humorous way. It's just like a more offensive or more obnoxious game of Horse. To be honest, I have played games of Horse that were far funnier than anything in this movie. The characters aren't likable at all; they say "dude" too much. I really think something like this could have probably worked, but somebody should have spent a little longer than twenty-three minutes writing it.