History YMMV / LadyBallers

%%* CriticalDissonance: On Rotten Tomatoes, the film sits at 43% critical "Rotten" rating and 89% audience "Fresh" rating. The filmmakers argue that this shows that their film is pleasing mainstream audiences while "triggering" the "lame-stream media". In reality, it's probably more due to the fact that the audience is, by definition, those already willing to subscribe to the rightwing website's video service thus more willing to respond positively to the movie's messaging regardless of quality.[[note]]Rotten Tomatoes has taken steps to ensure that audience reviews can only be written by people who've actually seen the movie or other piece of work.[[/note]] (As the main page notes, Rotten Tomatoes reviewer scores shouldn't be used as the sole evidence that it is this trope).

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Kris revealing himself to be [[spoiler:Matt Walsh in disguise is pretty dang ridiculous and comes out of nowhere. Made even better by Walsh's EvilLaugh and Candace Owens' confused reaction]].

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The movie manages to weave ''advertisements'' for Jeremy Boreing's real-life "anti-woke" products such as "Jeremy's Razors" into its very narrative, which come out of left field and break the pacing of the movie.

* DesignatedHero: The protagonist Rob is a firm believer in SecondPlaceIsForLosers and decries that he isn't allowed to be a {{Jerkass}} to the kids he is supposed to be coaching (the movie opening with him getting fired for it), is a massive sexist, doesn't believe trans women are real women (which makes his scheme of having his cis-gendered men play in women's sports for easy victories especially unethical in ''many'' ways), and blames all of his problems on the fact that everyone else being too woke. The only moment of self-reflection, or anything close to having a character arc, he has is when he decides to quit the finals so that he can be with his wife, sacrificing his chance at being a winner for the sake of their marriage... [[BrokenAesop when his team was already losing against a team of men doing the same scam as them]]. Considering he was written to be the mouthpiece of the filmmaker's political beliefs, we're supposed to agree with him every step of the way.

* DesignatedHero: The protagonist Rob is a firm believer in SecondPlaceIsForLosers and decries that he isn't allowed to be a {{Jerkass}} to the kids he is supposed to be coaching (the movie opening with him getting fired for it), is a massive sexist, doesn't believe trans women are real women (which makes his scheme of having his cis-gendered men play in women's sports for easy victories especially unethical in ''many'' ways), and blames all of his problems on the fact that everyone else being too woke. The only moment of self-reflection, or anything close to having a character arc, he has is when he decides to quit the finals so that he can be with his wife, sacrificing his chance at being a winner for the sake of their marriage... [[BrokenAesop when his team was already losing]]. Considering he was written to be the mouthpiece of the filmmaker's political beliefs, we're supposed to agree with him every step of the way.

%%* CriticalDissonance: On Rotten Tomatoes, the film sits at 43% critical "Rotten" rating and 89% audience "Fresh" rating. The filmmakers argue that this shows that their film is pleasing mainstream audiences while "triggering" the "lame-stream media". In reality, it's probably more due to the fact that the audience is, by definition, those already willing to subscribe to the rightwing website's video service thus more willing to respond positively to the movie's messaging regardless of quality.[[note]]Rotten Tomatoes has taken steps to ensure that audience reviews can only be written by people who've actually seen the movie or other piece of work.[[/note]] (As the main page notes, Rotten Tomatoes reviewer scores shouldn't be used as the sole evidence that it is this trope)

-->'''[[WebVideo/SomeMoreNews Cody Johnston]]:''' [...][[https://youtu.be/nrsysN_LBoo?si=RETAp7fHrZ3sjSlG&t=3299 and as I mentioned before,]] this film doesn't seem to have a single women's basketball player represented as a character, and actually seems to hate the WNBA. They have repeated jokes from like 20 years ago about how [[TakeThat nobody watches women's basketball]], and the other players are mainly portrayed as [[FlatCharacter pouty props]]. Their starting premise is that any man could beat any woman at any sport. It has no respect for, or interest in, the thing it's claiming to defend and protect, to the point that it seems ignorant and hostile to it. And that's just so weird to do when the thing you're trying to say is that this is all about preserving the dignity of women's sports.

-->'''[[WebVideo/SomeMoreNews Cody Johnston]]:''' [...][[https://youtu.be/nrsysN_LBoo?si=RETAp7fHrZ3sjSlG&t=3299 and as I mentioned before,]] this film doesn't seem to have a single women's basketball player represented as a character, and actually seems to hate the WNBA. They have repeated jokes from like 20 years ago about how [[TakeThat nobody watches women's basketball]], and the other players are mainly portrayed as [[FlatCharacter pouty props]]. Their starting premise is that any man could beat any woman at any sport. It has no respect for, or interest in, the thing it's claiming to defend and protect, to the point that it seems ignorant and hostile to it. And that's just so weird to do when the thing you're trying to say is that this is all about preserving the dignity of women's sports.

* CriticalDissonance: On Rotten Tomatoes, the film sits at 43% critical "Rotten" rating and 89% audience "Fresh" rating. The filmmakers argue that this shows that their film is pleasing mainstream audiences while "triggering" the "lame-stream media". In reality, it's probably more due to the fact that the audience is, by definition, those already willing to subscribe to the rightwing website's video service thus more willing to respond positively to the movie's messaging regardless of quality.[[note]]Rotten Tomatoes has taken steps to ensure that audience reviews can only be written by people who've actually seen the movie or other piece of work.[[/note]]

* CriticalDissonance: On Rotten Tomatoes, the film sits at 43% critical "Rotten" rating and 89% audience "Fresh" rating. The filmmakers argue that this shows that their film is pleasing mainstream audiences while triggering the lame-stream media. In reality, it's probably more due to the fact that the audience is, by definition, those already willing to subscribe to the rightwing new website's video service thus more willing to respond positively to the movie's messaging regardless of quality.

** The movie's message is that trans atheletes are a threat to the sanctity of women's sports. This is despite the repeated [[TakeThat dunks]] on women's sports as being lesser than "real" (read: Cis Men's) sports and inherently deserving of less respect.

* CriticalDissonance: On Rotten Tomatoes, the film sits at 43% critical "Rotten" rating and 89% audience "Fresh" rating. The filmmakers argue that this shows that their film is pleasing mainstream audiences while triggering the lame-stream media. In reality, it's probably more a factor that most of the people who bothered to watch the film were predisposed to gobble up its politics regardless of its quality.

* BrokenAesop: The movie's message is that trans atheletes are a threat to the sanctity of women's sports. This is despite the repeated [[TakeThat dunks]] on women's sports as being lesser than "real" (read: Cis Men's) sports and inherently deserving of less respect.

* SlowPacesBeginning: It takes about 1 hour into a nearly 2 hour film for the story to actually get to the heavily advertised premise of the titular Lady Ballers competing in women's basketball. With most of that time, besides characterizing the team's members, being filled with potshots at StrawmanPolitical targets the Daily Wire hates, Rob's sex life, and weirdest of all, commercials for Jeremy Boreing's real life licensed products.

-->'''[[WebVideo/SomeMoreNews Cody Johnston]]:''' [...][[https://youtu.be/nrsysN_LBoo?si=RETAp7fHrZ3sjSlG&t=3299 and as I mentioned before,]] this film doesn't seem to have a single women's basketball player represented as a character, and actually seems to hate the WNBA. They have repeated jokes from like 20 years ago about how [[TakeThat nobody watches women's basketball]], and the other players are mainly portrayed as [[FlatCharacter pouty props]]. Their starting premise is that any man could beat any woman at any sport. It has no respect for, or interest in, the thing it's claiming to defend and protect, to the point that it seems ignorant and hostile to it. And that's just so weird to do when the thing you're trying to say is that this is all about preserving the dignity of women's sports.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The Daily Wire's film division repeatedly talks about how it's making movies that Hollywood wouldn't dare make, seemingly unaware that a movie with a near identical basic premise (''Film/JuwannaMann'') was made by Hollywood without any controversy. The obvious difference is that ''Juwanna Mann'' wasn't a politically motivated film.

* BrokenAesop: The movie's message is that trans atheletes are a threat to the sanctity of women's sports. This is despite the repeated [[TakeThat dunks]] on women's sports as being lesser than "real" (read: Cis Men's) sports.

* BrokenAesop: The movie presents trans

* BrokenAesop: The movie presents trans people as a threat to the sanctity of women's sports. This rings quite hollow considering that the movie makes repeated [[TakeThat Take Thats]] towards women's sports and treats it as lesser to "real" (men's) sports. The movie's production also completely undermines the point of the movie. It had to be changed from a {{Documentary}} to a fictional comedy because men can't actually pretend to be trans in order to play in women's sports in real life; they have to be actually be transitioning.
-->'''[[WebVideo/SomeMoreNews Cody Johnston]]:''' [...][[https://youtu.be/nrsysN_LBoo?si=RETAp7fHrZ3sjSlG&t=3299 and as I mentioned before,]] this film doesn't seem to have a single women's basketball player represented as a character, and actually seems to hate the WNBA. They have repeated jokes from like 20 years ago about how [[TakeThat nobody watches women's basketball]], and the other players are mainly portrayed as [[FlatCharacter pouty props]]. Their starting premise is that any man could beat any woman at any sport. It has no respect for, or interest in, the thing it's claiming to defend and protect, to the point that it seems ignorant and hostile to it. And that's just so weird to do when the thing you're trying to say is that this is all about preserving the dignity of women's sports.

* BrokenAesop: The movie presents trans people as a threat to the sanctity of women's sports. This rings quite hollow considering that the movie makes repeated [[TakeThat Take Thats]] towards women's sports and treats it as lesser to "real" (men's) sports. The movie's production also completely undermines the point of the movie. It had to be changed from a {{Documentary}} to a fictional comedy because men can't actually pretend to be trans in order to play in women's sports in real life; they have to be actually be transitioning.
-->'''[[WebVideo/SomeMoreNews Cody Johnston]]:''' [...][[https://youtu.be/nrsysN_LBoo?si=RETAp7fHrZ3sjSlG&t=3299 and as I mentioned before,]] this film doesn't seem to have a single women's basketball player represented as a character, and actually seems to hate the WNBA. They have repeated jokes from like 20 years ago about how [[TakeThat nobody watches women's basketball]], and the other players are mainly portrayed as [[FlatCharacter pouty props]]. Their starting premise is that any man could beat any woman at any sport. It has no respect for, or interest in, the thing it's claiming to defend and protect, to the point that it seems ignorant and hostile to it. And that's just so weird to do when the thing you're trying to say is that this is all about preserving the dignity of women's sports.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The Daily Wire's film division repeatedly talks about how it's making movies that Hollywood wouldn't dare make, seemingly unaware that a movie with a near identical basic premise (''Film/JuwannaMann'') was made by Hollywood without any controversy.