Review: Lady Ballers is Supposed to be the Comedy of the Year, but is it? (Spoilers)

On Wednesday last week, the Dailywire announced its first-ever feature length comedy, Lady Ballers, which premiered on Friday. This controversial comedy follows a former high-school basketball coach who finds out that he can become famous again by pulling together his former team and having them pretend to be women so they could participate in women’s sports and dominate the court. After seeing the trailer for the movie, my family was excited to watch it. It looked like a good film and it poked fun at the trans movement. On top of that, everyone from the Dailywire had at least one cameo appearance in it. However, when I watched the movie, I was somewhat disappointed with what the movie was actually like.

#1: Cameos

The cameos were easily the best part of the movie. Matt Walsh’s performance was the best one in the movie, Jeremy Boring was the main character, Brett Cooper and Michael Knowles were two Leftist newscasters (who made the best jokes of the movie), Crain and Co. made up three of the five players on the basket ball team, Tyler Fischer was the towel boy who mainly made fun of Dylan Mulvaney, and Ben Shapiro, Spencer Klavan, Candace Owens, Andrew Klavan, Chandler Juliet, Riley Gains, Jordan Peterson and others appeared several times. Their prescence on screen was the thing that brought the most laughs in my family and we were mostly excited to see them in a movie.

#2: The Jokes

While some of the jokes were laugh worthy, others elicited a chuckle or nothing at all. The comedy was definitely triggering, but it wasn’t hilarious. The reason why this is is because most of the jokes were just low hanging fruit. They didn’t need a lot of thought and you got them pretty quickly. While the film lived up to Matt Walsh’s promise of being obvious that the Dailywire was having fun with it, that fun unfortunately became kinda repetitive as eay-to-make jokes came up over and over again.

An example of one of these repetitive jokes was Coach Rob’s relationship with the psycho journalist, Gwen Wilde. While some scenes were funny, others were just obvious that they were trying too hard, which leads me to my next point…

#3: Very PG-13

There were quite a few raunchy/suggestive scenes in Lady Ballers, most of them revolving around Rob and Gwen’s relationship that were supposed to be funny, but ended up becoming tiresome pretty quickly. If you’re watching with young kids, maybe skip past those parts. They don’t add much and you won’t be missing anything except a gag about Rob rolling out of bed and landing on Gwen’s cat.

#4: The Message

Though the comdey aspect of Lady Ballers was lacking, the message was good. The movie revolves around men dressing as women to earn fame by competing against women who are physically weaker than they are, poking fun at the cowards who do that in real life. It constantly points out the physical disadvantages that women have compared to men, something that is constantly over looked in today’s media.

Overall, I would rate Lady Ballers as a 6/10. Was okay, but it could’ve been better.

Until next time,

M.J.