Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop and Remer, invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. Theirs is the only team standing in the way of major rule changes that the owner of a rival team wants to institute.
The vulgar, obvious humor of Zucker brother David and South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone elicits easy, guilty laughs, yet the material has an underlying innocence that's just shy of good clean fun.
– Leonard Klady,
Variety,
25 Mar 2008
rotten:
What kind of movie is it where Yasmine Bleeth is the best thing about it?
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
25 Mar 2008
rotten:
Their incessant, obscene banter is meant to be endearing; their total lack of presence makes it simply annoying.
– Bilge Ebiri,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Mar 2008
rotten:
Jenny McCarthy and Ernest Borgnine -- together at last.
– Jeff Giles,
Newsweek,
25 Mar 2008
rotten:
I was bored well before the end, but found the first half hour pretty funny.