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The film follows Coop (Trey Parker) and Remer (Matt Stone), two unemployed slackers who invent a hybrid game in their driveway that combines the scoring of baseball with the shooting of basketball. The hook? To prevent an opponent from scoring, you must "psych them out" using increasingly vulgar and surreal insults. baseketball -1998-
Released on July 31, 1998, BASEketball was not a critical darling. It was dismissed by many as a juvenile vanity project for the creators of South Park , Trey Parker and Matt Stone. However, looking back more than two decades later, the film stands as a fascinating artifact. It is a bridge between the anarchic teen comedies of the early 80s and the gross-out boom of the late 90s. More importantly, it serves as a surprisingly sharp satire on the commercialization of professional sports, wrapped in a layer of slapstick and "psych-outs." The movie centers on a hybrid game that