on rotten tomatoes, "baseketball" has an approval of 42%, with an average rating of 5.31/10 based on 52 reviews from critics. the website's "critics consensus" is ""baseketball" isn't just a succession of fouls thanks to the comedic zip of david zucker's direction, but sophomoric gags and a lack of performance hustle by trey parker and matt stone makes this satire a clumsy bunt". on metacritic, the movie has a weighted average score of 38 out of 100, based on reviews from 18 critics, indicating "generally unfavored reviews". audiences surveyed by cinemascore gave the movie a grade b on a scale of a to f.