The Top 40 Basketball Movies - #13. BASEketball

 The Top 40 Basketball Movies - #13. BASEketball

Is it more a basketball movie or a baseball movie? I personally feel since it's a game basically about shooting free throws just with baseball scoring, that it falls more down the basketball side. I've probably watched this a trillion times and it's still funny. Matt and Trey do their South Park like humor here and it hits for me. The beginning montage has some of the finest moments in all of sports cinema. We have jokes from dozen egg night, to unsolved mysteries. The plot if you don't know and are reading this is pretty simple - Joe Cooper and Doug start this game since they are basically good at horse and messing with others. The sport catches on, but Coop fight hard to not sell out. When Coop makes a decision to turn down a substantial offer for the sport, Doug turns on him. They also fight for the affections of Yasmine Bleeth 's Jenna Reed. Jenny McCarthy and the late Ernest Borgnine play the owner and wife. After Borginine's Denslow dies the late Robert Vaughn plays Baxter Cain(the true antagonist) joins with McCarthy to turn Doug and Coop against each other in order to sell the sport out. Squeak Scolari played by Dian Bachar, might be the best character, always getting picked on by Matt and Trey. David Zucker, completely in his comedy element, directed and also apparently created the game for real with some of his friends he created it with doing cameos. Dan Patrick, Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Reggie Jackson, Dale Earnhardt all cameo as well. I rank this as the number 2 basketball movie, but it suffers a bad consensus fate. Comedy is subjective.

Movie	Rotten Tom	Rotten Tom Aud	IMDB	Internet Rank	My Rank
13. BASEketball	41	74	6.5	28	2
14. Glory Road	55	81	7.2	14	18
15. Finding Forrester	74	79	7.3	10	22
16. Rebound: The Legend of Earl “The Goat”	50	94	7.6	6	27
17. Inside Moves	50	77	7.0	19	16
18. Hoop Dreams	98	92	8.3	2	35
19. Uncle Drew	61	48	5.7	32	6
20. Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story	50	99	6.9	11	28
21. The Winning Season	50	55	6.6	26	15
22. Fast Break	50	59	6.1	30	13
23. Believe in Me	60	74	7.0	16	29
24. High Flying Bird	91	50	6.2	20	26
25. "O"	64	58	6.1	22	25
26. Forget Paris	48	56	6.5	29	19
27. Sunset Park	13	83	5.9	31	21
28. Game Day	50	82	5.4	25	30
29. Blue Chips	37	51	6.2	33	23
30. Amateur	60	66	5.9	24	32
31. The Air Up There	21	35	5.5	38	20
32. Space Jam	43	63	6.5	27	31
33. Semi-Pro	22	38	5.8	36	24
34. Heaven Is a Playground	50	84	5.8	21	39
35. Hurricane Season	50	69	6.5	23	38
36. Teen Wolf	42	52	6.1	34	34
37. Boogie	42	57	5.2	35	36
38. Rebound	14	38	5.1	40	33
39. Slam Dunk Ernest	50	31	4.5	37	37
40. Eddie	17	36	5.2	39	40