The creators of “South Park” Trey Parker and Matt Stone star in “BASEketball”, an average comedy directed by David Zucker (“Airplane!”, “The Naked Gun”). It starts off as a promising knock at the commercialisation of sports but instead turns into yet another “Wayne’s World” style movie.

Two friends named Joe Cooper (Parker) and Doug Remer (Stone) invent a game named ‘baseketball’ (or ‘BASEketball’ if you look at the film’s title), which is basketball with baseball’s rules. It starts off on their driveway but becomes the largest sport in America. Now a greedy tycoon named Baxter Cain (Robert Vaughn “Superman III”) is out to make the sport just as commercial as football, basketball and baseball so can our ‘heroes’ (I guess that’s what they are) save the day.

Parker and Stone are witty and hard-hitting comedians but every now and then cross the line into the just plain gross and this movie sadly features a lot of that as there is a scene where they both have gigantic anatomies. I think Parker seems a lot better here as he comes across as normal compared to Stone, who never really seems to fit in here as he constantly has strange expressions on his face. The characters here do the obvious thing and have the clichéd fall-out but come back to join forces because they actually miss each other and they know this is the right thing. The supporting characters aren’t all that interesting.

“BASEketball” features some dumb moments but some of them are so dumb that you’ll probably find yourself chuckling anyway such as the beer mascot urinating and one unfortunate guy who keeps being attacked by a dog. Some of the scenes are just grotesque though such as multiple parts where Remer shoots milk from his nipples. The film has been made by comedic geniuses on both sides of the camera but unfortunately doesn’t seem all that impressive; watch “Airplane!” and “South Park” instead.