BASEKETBALL (1998)

BASEKETBALL (R) In this winkingly broad sports-and-media burlesque, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, appear before us as wised-up versions of Wayne and Garth -- boyish, degenerate slacker slobs who invent a knowingly idiotic fusion of basketball and baseball called ''baseketball.'' The stadiums resemble MTV studios, and the entire ''sport'' has the stunt atmosphere of a put-on game show: Singled Out with jockstraps. Parker and Stone are the poster dudes for shock humor that isn't shocking anymore. For every raucous, infantile joke that works, there are a dozen others that charge out of the dugout and fall flat. B-

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