Just had a brief look over the comments and I would say about 90% of them are people informing me that Reel Big Fish's style of music is called SKA. Some people seemed to be shocked/ offended I did not know this. Well I'm sorry to say but SKA was never a thing in Australia, well at least in not my part of Australia, I've never heard anyone, ever, even mention the word SKA. If you've come to the comment section to inform me the style of Reel Big Fish is called SKA, I promise you, I get it already, I've just been informed about a 1000 times, I promise I won't be forgetting anytime soon, and fully acknowledge that the Reel Big Fish style of music is SKA. SKA, SKA, SKA, with an extra side serving of even more SKA! See I am now up to date with SKA, I guess you can call me SKAface! 😊
@@MintyComedicArts Both. I'm willing to admit I know know much, but foolish enough to ask for a decent answer. Let's see if there are any decent people out there. ;)
If people knock BASEketball 13-14 more times, I’m out of here…. But seriously, I love it and watched it so many times on vhs with my wife when we first married. Thanks for covering this hidden gem Minty!
For me this movie is legendary, loved the movie still do. Showed it to my 70+ year old dad in the 2010's who was very unwell and he watched it twice, asking afterwards : " Do you have more movies like this ?? " I couldn't imagine BASEketball without Parker & Stone, it'd be like Police Squad without Lesley Nelson. Thanks Minty, for your very cool 10 Things.
Great memory of your dad to have, for sure. Just one thing and I hate to be "that guy" but it's actually Leslie Neilsen, not Lesley Nelson. I do agree with you said, though. I can't imagine "Airplane!" without Leslie in it, either.
They really don't care very much about this movie. They are pretty busy with South Park and being very rich to spend the time to re-cut this almost 30 year-old movie.
@@JoshuaSmith-fq8xy I thought BASEketball was a really good movie, just like Butters thought the fourth Indiana Jones movie was really good while all his friends that saw it were all traumatized.
Looking back, the fact that Al Micheals and Bob Costas not only signed on but have significant roles in this movie is amazing. The man who said “5 seconds left in the game. Do you believe in miracles?” also said “5 years ago, those girls were still in grade school”
@@jamesmanning8555 Reading this I just had to go back and watch the end credits... I can't believe I've had this movie for so long and never noticed that!!! Thanks for mentioning it. Discovering something new about something you've loved for so long is a real treat
After we saw the movie when it came out during college, my roommate and I kept saying, "We gotta get jobs, then we get the khakis, then we get the chicks!" Such a great life motto.
The "Road Kill: Caught on Tape" sequence has legitimately caused me to almost pass out from laughing so hard I have been unable to properly draw breath for a while.
I remember when I was in high school in the early 2000’s and I first watched this movie with best friend. We immediately went out back to our basketball hoop and drew up lines and started playing Baseketball ourselves. We played regularly for the remaining years of high school. So I have very fond memories of both this movie and the game itself. Apparently there is a company that still makes a Baseketball replica, so I’m really tempted to get that and teach the game to my kids.
@benphillips9973 🎶There's a sinking feeling inside, and your best friend has turned his back. But you can't let get you down, no you've got to fight it. Because you try, but you can't let go.🎶
@lonewolffang 🎶Even though some guy's trying to blackmail you, and your girlfriend thinks you suck. It's up to you to convince them all that it's all a part of some rich guys evil plan. Look out ahead. There's a truck changing lanes, and you got some yellow crumbs on your upper lip, and those warts on your dick won't go away unless you start using topical cream everyday🎶
@benphillips9973 right. I was thinking he was just gonna say something in a regular voice. The cartman voice shook me, because I was not expecting that.
True fact I'm a voice impressionist and I do the South Park character voices so well. Even Trey Parker himself. If you wanna see it. Wait for MY upcoming review on July 31st for BASEketball.
All these years later (don't tell me how many, I refuse to acknowledge how much time has passed) my friends and I still 'Steeeeeve Perry' each other when we're trying to concentrate on something.
Me and my buddies were kicking to decide Fantasy Football draft order one year. I steve perry'd one of my mates and it totally worked. Great moment. Great film.
One of the most criminally underrated 90's comedies. Makes a great double feature with either Orgasmo, or Team America: World Police. You don't even have to like South Park to like this movie. South Park came in like a category 9 earthquake as soon as it started, and Jenny McCarthy and Yasmine Bleeth were 2 of the biggest sexy celebs at this time. The Zucker brothers (and parody films in general) still had some clout at this point in time. How it bombed in theaters is beyond me. Then again, another comedy classic bombed that year and went on to become a cult favorite: The Big Lebowski. I gues no one felt like going to the movies that year, or they were seeing "Rush Hour" 17 times lol.
Rush hour is a buddy cop/Martial arts/ comedy movie that fit well for the majority. Baseketball is raunchy comedy , that I would see cuz it’s my type of humor but I remember when it came out, only South Park fans wanted to check it out.
I actually never seen Orgazom. If I find it on DVD. I'm definitely watching it l, cause I'm definitely like Trey Parker, we both love music, immature funny jokes acting, and I have the same blonde hair and blue eyes like him. And I'm very good at he's characters voices on South Park (Matt Stone too a little bit.) And I definitely do I good voice impression of Trey. Who knows, maybe I'm his long lost son.
@@garyhall2770 true I mean though they aren't real they are just fake but when comes to them in movies like that scene in Harold and Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay with Neil Patrick Harris getting stopped by the police. That was so funny.
Such a fantastic, funny movie, and horribly underappreciated IMO. I love the early South Park humor being used in the movie, and it's just full of low-brow humor that definitely hits that "Naked Gun" genre. Glad you enjoyed this one!
I love this movie and I saw it when it hit theaters in 1998 and then watched the shit out of it so much on VHS tape that I wore it out and then I bought it on DVD. I didn't care about the Robert Vaughn sublot. Idk I just didn't find him intimidating as a villain.
This was actually one of my late father's favorite movies, and he watched it all the time! And as for that song; that particular style of music is called "Ska", so I guess you could say that is a Ska -version of 'Take On Me'. =) Great as always Minty!
Robert Patrick also looks like he could be Andrew McCarthys brother as well. Dian Bachar eh in a way he resembles Robert Partick but Andrew Mccarthy does for sure.
No mention of the cameo by the greatest race car driver ever Dale Earnhardt as a taxi driver? I remember he had just won the Daytona 500 in 1998 and went to record his cameo the week after winning.
I feel like at its time of release most people didn't even know who Matt and Trey were. This is definitely a forever comfort film for me. I'm blessed to be with someone that also looks back on it so fondly. Steve Perry!
Baseketball is an amazing comedy that we severely lack these days. I'm sad that it lost money, I had gone to see it several times in the theater. I would love to see an actor's cut of the movie!
Yea, I'd really want to see BASEketball become a real life sport here in Australia. And if not, then I'll be the one to start it. For the South Park fans.
You forgot that the real killer for this movie was not so much Saving Private Ryan (although it did contribute) but actually There’s Something About Mary, which came out three weeks before, and was packing in hysterical crowds for the next few months.
I cannot count how many times my buddies and I would psych each other out by saying “Steve Perry.” Love this movie and just bought it on blue ray. Great job
@@DogFish-NZI wonder if Leslie Nielson was offered to star in this movie. He would've been awesome considering Airplane and the Naked Gun films. I read that he turned down the role of Admiral Benson in Hot Shots before it went to Lloyd Bridges. After the Naked Gun films Nielson waited years upon years to work with Zucker again in Scary Movie 3 and 4.
I love this movie, and saw it in theaters. I never forget the part when the two guys kiss, that a man who brought his young children, gotup and left the theater lol. He should have gotten up a long time ago, there is no way I would have let my son watched that movie at those ages
One of my favorites films as a kid! So many good one liners, getting the kid drunk before a liver transplant was hilarious and the locker scene where there third members were the size of baseball bats 😅! This was also the beginning of the end for these films, you no longer have a film with tons of laughs and yes you will be offended but that’s the charm of films like these. HollyWood is full of snowflakes and perverts and too afraid to joke about it, that’s why I didn’t go to the theaters for over a decade.
Freakin love this movie. And Reel Big Fish has been my favorite band for like 20 years, so I LOVE the shout-out to their "take" on "Take on Me!" Blows the original out of the water if you ask me. I think their most successful song "Beer" was also in this movie.
"We don't really remember much of doing Season 1 to 3. I mean, like we really have no memory of how we made it that far." - Trey and Matt Interview, South Park Anniversary
I think they were right to expect it to likely be cancelled -- the show hadn't really hit its groove yet. When I rewatch the show I start at S3 at least
This was the FIRST DVD I ever bought haha. I got a DVD player/writer with my 1998 computer I remember and that's how I got introduced to them. I of course had a VHS player before that. This movie was just amazing, such a classic and came out perfectly right after South Park started. I would say Reel Big Fish were more Ska (Punk) than just Punk. Remember the 2nd Ska revival of that time? There was Goldfinger, Mad Caddies, Sublime, Less than Jake, Rancid, Suicide Machines, etc. Ah man this took me back, great video man! I assume you're my age give or take a year (born in '85). This movie cracked me up so much at age 14, and is an all time classic. The funniest scene is when Coop is driving in his car and the radio starts singing about his life then about exactly what's happening "Look out ahead! There's a truck changing lanes" hahah
One of my all time favorite movies when I need a laugh, I quote Baseketball often. And I loved that ska influenced soundtrack, honestly; Reel Big Fish is one of my favorite bands in my catalog. Thank you for the review. Starting my day with a smile today.😁
"He's blind, Doug." I love this movie. What's really funny is I heard about a football player setting up a choreographed touchdown routine for his team recently, and it reminded me of that particular scene of the movie. So, while we have men moving to women's sports and women moving into women's sports, I guess I'm still waiting for hockey players using a baseball bat to hit a football into a basketball net. At that point, the supremacy of Parker and Stone as prognosticators will be complete!
I remember the entire theater laughing throughout the whole movie. I'll never forget the end... when they win the cup and the team is celebrating. Robert Stack pops up with one last, "UPDATE: We still have no ****ing clue where this guy is." -then back to them celebrating their win. People were buckled over in their seats laughing, some literally ROTFL in the aisle. Only time I've ever witnessed that in a theater. I laughed so hard I cried.
@@jordanbuck3671Robert Stack is great in his cameo doing an unsolved mystery on Coop and he also gave a great performance in Airplane which he sort of plays a dick in. In Caddyshack 2 he was a dick for sure.
The music style is Ska. If you like that version of Take On Me, you should check out other Ska bands like MU330, Madness, Mephiskapheles or even The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. You might like it! Love your videos, btw! Thank you for content!
I've watched this movie more times than I'll ever be able to count. It's amazing. It's kinda a bummer that Matt and Trey have qualms about it, but I get it.
I get some joy out of this movie myself, pleasantly surprised to see you like it also! I'd be curious to see a list of movies you DON'T like. You usually always find something to enjoy about a film regardless of popular opinion or critical perceptions of it so I'd love to see a list of "10 Movies you wouldn't think Minty doesn't like" (Or something like that).
One of the funniest movies ever. Fun fact, in high-school I tried to make the BASEketball club for an after school program. Even got the old gym teacher to agree to chaperone.
This movie had one of my favorite lines! I still randomly quote it when someones busting my balls "Goddammit! I swear if you guys rip on me 13 or 14 more times... I'm outta here!"
In my circle of friends this movie is quoted non stop. We are constantly adding cock to the end of our sentences. The song in the car is a classic. It is absolutely hilarious and I have loved it since the day I saw it at the ripe age of 13.
I will say, I loved this movie greatly. It's right there next to Blazing Saddles, Dodgeball, and Tropic Thunder. It was dumb, but it was hilarious because of it. It's a movie that can make me bust out laughing. And sweet mother of Cthulu did I love the music. Especially from Reel Big Fish and Nerfherder. The cast was made of heavy hitters and man did it show. BASEketball was definitely an underdog and a very underappreciated movie. And now I want to see an actor's cut of the movie.
When South Park premiered, I was 5 going on 6 years old. I’m the youngest of 4 boys and my older brothers were 9, 12, and 13 years old, so they watched it and I was able to get into it immediately and have been a huge fan my entire life All that being said, we had BaseKetball on VHS, and we legitimately watched it so damn much that the video reel on the tape wore to the point it stopped playing and the reel broke
Extremely overlooked movie especially considering Trey & Matt's Southpark success giving it more of a chance. Yes, it's "dumb," but self-aware dumb is an art unto itself.
Any version of take on me is amazing including the black & white version by The Blanks. But I still watch Reel Big Fish's version but the video is just them in the back of the stadium, I never knew they had clips of or that it was for BASE-KET-Ball
one of my favorite movies. The humer and background gags that make you watch it more and more so you don't miss anything. Dale Earndthart making a cameo as the taxi driver near the end and him making road kill on the way to the stadium. I was at a wedding last year and it had a live band. They were playing reel big fish songs and "I yelled out I hear your sister is going out with squeeks". The bass player nearly lost it.
Caught this opening weekend because I was loving South Park so had to go see a movie that Matt & Trey were in. Loved it, and watched it sooo many times when it hit DVD. Squeak's character was great.
I never watched Baseketball in the cinemas, but I bought the DVD!!! It's just as good as Airplane (Flying High), but different. I feel like Matt & Trey brought "warmth" to the movie! p.s. *_STEVE PERRY_* !!!
Thank you! baseketball is one of my favorite comedies ever and everytime I see it I keep finding new jokes or easter eggs in the background or dialogue. Hopefully more people get a chance to see it and appreciate this hidden gem.
