ADMR – Lady Ballers is not quite as awesome as an Adam Sandler comedy era movie 3/5

Lady Ballers…a movie behnd it’s time. Kinda.

Let’s be honest, it’s not a good era for comedy movies, or comedy in general. In a country – nay, world – that has embraced a mentality of finding the outrage in everything in order to feel important, heard, alive, whatever, Lady Ballers seems like a slam dunk for both conservatives and liberals alike. We could easily turn this column into a political discussion but I’d rather not. And it would be completely fair to say that a movie produced by a leading conservative outlet that lampoons dudes pretending to be women in order to be ‘winners’ might possibly have some biases attached. Fair, but in the case of Lady Ballers, it is a needless fear. This movie doesn’t make political attacks but it does blatantly ridicule the fact that biological men competing against biological women in sports is completely ludicrous.  If you disagree with me on this, please save your comments. I can’t take anyone with opposing opinions on that fact as serious and I kindly, sincerely ask you to grow up emotionally. Facts, people. You can’t have truth without facts. And if you have become adept at ignoring facts for feels, I got nuthin’ for you. Sorry, truly I am.

Lady Ballers is the story of Rob Gibson, a once great but now washed up HS basketball coach dealing with the politics, restrictions and general modern schoolastic wokery (i.e. the inmates are running the asylum) of his school. To add to his midlife crisis misery, his ex-wife is cohabitating with a buddha zen master of woke (played expertly by the most non-woke member of the DW staff, Matt Walsh) and his grade school aged daughter is more knowledgeable on current gender ideology than he is. Desperate to feel like a ‘winner’ once again, he launches a plan to enter his pre-woke era men’s championship basketball team into a women only competition.

Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?

Lady Ballers would have been right at home if made back in the 80’s or 90’s by Happy Madison Production. In fact, one might recall a movie called ‘White Chicks’ (2004) where the stars (Marlon and Shawn Weyans) not only gender-swapped but also put on ‘white face’…a woke faux pas twofer. The horror. Can anyone guess why this particular woke ideology transgression was given a pass? Anyone?

The gags in Lady Ballers are silly and immature and obvious. There are literally no surprises in this movie other than the cameos by every single star from the Daily Wire, which were fun only if you know who those folks are. And truthfully, a lot of the laughs come from the characters they are playing, which are diametrically opposed to their true personalities. That would make this movie much more fun for their target audience than for a new viewer. And since the movie is only released on the Daily Wire platform, I guess that’s okay. I doubt Lady Ballers movie would ever get widely released. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, all the networks…nobody would touch it with a ten foot pole, afraid of the backlash. From a financial point of view, I think that’s a mistake. Whether you agree with the subject matter or not, it would get watched. Without question, it would get watched. Comedy has gotten so watered down from fear of the outrage crowd that even mildly outrageous humor is verboten. And I’m sorry to say, the comedy in Lady Ballers is mildly outrageous at best.

To be fair to Lady Ballers and the Daily Wire, this movie would only be offensive to the radical Left, since they are literally militant in their promotion of trans-gender in sports. Moderate liberals realize the simple truth of the physical differences between men and women, even if most of them are reluctant to voice those beliefs. The story takes no jabs at trans-genderism as a lifestyle choice. Nor is it condoned, but worth noting that Lady Ballers walks a very thin tight-rope expertly.

Like a cinematic head-fake

So, is Lady Ballers worth the watch? Tough to say. I enjoyed Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison very much way back in the day. Since then, my tastes have matured somewhat. I guess that, if yours still gravitate towards the silly then knock yourself out. There are some good chuckles but the best of them were in the trailer. It’s not Happy Gilmore level silly-funny. More like Grown-Ups 2. I’m giving Lady Ballers a very ‘meh’ 3/5. Part of that is for the sheer guts it takes to make a movie that you know is going to cause a ruckus. That seemed to be part of the fun for me. I am finding it just as interesting to watch the MSM lose their collective shite over this movie. That’s why this movie stays on my mind…not because it was all that memorable on its own, but because the faux outrage keeps bringing it back front and center. So it seems like a win-win. Outragers have something to kvetch about and the Daily Wire keeps getting paid. And we can all agree that shite is funny.

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