The original post: /r/movies by /u/jcheese27 on 2024-11-20 20:00:29.

Some day coop, I’m gonna be a big sports star

No Shade to Dodgeball, but Baseketball has the title.

• Matt and trey wrote a great script that doesn’t really punch down at all and ages well. Upon rewatch - each scene seemed not just to be funny but compelling. All the way through the end with the Malakalaka board and i find myself actually getting teared up when Coop gets the replacement Lazy boy from the kid.
• The team gimmicks are amazing.
• A movie of its era but still feels relevant - the soundtrack is silly and the house band is Reel Big Fish - Cuz ska was having “a moment”
• Watching the first scene with the voiceover about how sports suck now cutting to coop peeing in the bushes is actually great… especially with the one football player jumping around that stuff has obly gotten more prevalent.
• The idea of the players moving around so much creating instability for the sport is an ideal that feels lost nowadays… Kinda like how we root for the Scabs but the whole movie is antiplayer empowerment… but they come together anyway
• The invention of the game and the psyche-outs keep the game fun
• Al michaels and bob Costa’s are fucking hilarious in this.
• Jenny McCarthy is in her bag
• Ernest Borgnine is in his bag
• Robert Vaughn feels born to play these types of characters
• The Thematic teams are kinda hilarious
• The thematic cheerleaders are : D
• The hospital scene is hilarious. them drinking at the bar with the kid. Fantastic.
• honestly it feels anything that didn’t age well (it all did minus all the lil bitch jokes somewhat) all counterbalances with the Coop/doug Kiss at the malakalaka board
• Also the “Sports Scenes” are fun to watch

If you don’t go to bat for this movie - “Your mother is a terrible cook”

Edit: i forgot the "massive Egos’ scene and the car drive song.

Double edit - they didn’t write it - David zucker and co did