Sunday, November 30, 2008

BASEketball
Comedy
5/5

PLOT
Baseketball is about two avergage men who have no maturity at all. They can't really do anything well except shoot hoops. So they decide to invent a sport called "BASEketball" which is a cross between Baseball and basketball. This way they can use their skill of shooting basketballs while not having to run very much. The sport soon catches on quickly and becomes a world renown event. Like all sports other things start to get in the way such as team merchandise and people trying to buy other teams. This starts to make the sport of baseketball divide until Coop the main character decides that he is going to change all of this. And so him and his team play their hearts out in this fun comedy that will keep you laughing.

ACTING
The acting that takes place in this movie is simply hilarious. The two main actors Matt Stone and Trey Parker are the two creators of South Park the animated comedy show that is still to this day on television. The proceed in making subtle jokes throughout the movie that will get the audience laughing. Their casual and dry sense of humor is definetly for a certain crowd but is still funny regardless. Although making a lot of dirty potty jokes some of them involve quite some thought which is sometimes a positive for people who like to have jokes that make them think. But overall I thought the acting was great and very funny.

SPECIAL EFFECTS/ CINEMATOGRAPHY
Because this film was a comedy and doesn't involve a lot of special effects, it is hard to say anything about it. The music was that of a good comedy and really helped set the mood at times. The camera shots consisted of mostly medium and wide shots to keep it easy on the audience. It also had quite a bit of close-ups on the characters facial expressions to emphasize a point. It also gave it a comdy aspect by allowing the characters to speak without using words.

FINAL COMMENTS
I believe that this film has a target audience of younger adolesences and adults who have a fairly large sense of humor. If you prefer the textbook jokes and politically correct jokes then I highly suggest you stay away from this film. But if you have do have a sense of humor that can handle the so called "potty humor" then I highly suggest watching this film. The films main strangth is it has all the basic essentials in making a movie and thats it. It didnt try to make the story too complex. It kept it simple allowing the audience to be more focused on the jokes that were being made over the progress of the movie.

No comments: