Yasmine Bleeth
Entertainment Tonight
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BASEketball (Universal Pictures)

Back in 1980 DAVID ZUCKER, while still part of the Zucker Abrahams Zucker team, created the disaster movie spoof, 'Airplane!,' arguably one of the funniest movies ever made. Only a couple of years ago, TREY PARKER and MATT STONE created "South Park," the brilliant and controversial animated comedy series that pushed the boundaries of taste beyond limits previously set by "Beavis and Butt-head," and became an overnight sensation.

Now these masters of the low-brow laugh have joined forces for a movie about 'BASEketball,' a sport that combines elements of the basketball game "HORSE" with baseball rules. And, since there is no blocking of shots, defenders must say or do anything that forces the shooter to miss: a "Psyche Out." (ZUCKER actually invented the sport 10 years ago, complete with league schedules, trades, and a championship.)

The script by ZUCKER (who also directs), ROBERT LoCASH ('Naked Gun 33 1/3'), LEWIS FRIEDMAN, and JEFF WRIGHT tells the timely tale of three slackers -- Coop (PARKER), Remer (STONE), and Squeak (DIAN BACHAR, who worked with the "South Park" duo on the films 'Cannibal: The Musical' and 'Orgazmo') -- who make up a new, pure, and innocent sport in their driveway, only to see it turned into a major corporate and wildly popular professional league.

Also starring are Emmy winner ROBERT VAUGHN (from the classic series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.") as Cain, a wealthy industrialist who tries to commercialize the National 'BASEketball' League; YASMINE BLEETH (a babe from "Baywatch") as Jenna, the sweet-natured head of the Dream Come True Foundation; Oscar® winner ERNEST BORGNINE (most recently seen in 'Gattaca') as Denslow, the eccentric billionaire founder of the professional 'BASEketball' league; and JENNY McCARTHY (from MTV's sketch comedy series, "The Jenny McCarthy Show") as Denslow's soon-to-be widow, Yvette. Appearing as themselves are veteran sports broadcasters BOB COSTAS and AL MICHAELS.

ZUCKER, LoCASH, and GIL NETTER ('High School High') produced this unsportsmanlike comedy which skewers the national obsession with professional sports. So get ready to play ball -- 'BASEketball,' that is -- when it opens in theaters on July 31.