Tony Gorgotron is a high school senior whose love of basketball is matched only by his lack of basketball talent. He’s the joke of his school’s basketball team, and he never gets to play. His only friends are the school nerd Wedgie and his childhood friend Myrna who is hot but has glasses and doesn’t wear makeup. Every day Tony lusts after the prettiest girl in school who is also the head cheerleader and also the basketball captain’s gf. Her name is Dina Daakenpants and everybody calls her Double D because they’re in high school.
Tony is sad because he’s so bad at basketball and he knows that if he were good at basketball then he wouldn’t have any problems. Tony…has a lot to learn.
At the very end of the film, Tony turns 18. To celebrate he has a party at an outdoor basketball court. The bad news is that only Wedgie and Myrna come and they don’t even like basketball! To make matters worse, it starts raining. Tony gets angry and sends Wedgie and Myrna home. Depressed, he takes solace in a solo game of crybaby hoops. He misses every shot and it’s so pathetic that Tony takes the rain-soaked basketball and sits in the middle of the wet basketball court, crying. Yes, it is then he is struck by lightning. The screen goes black.
When Tony wakes up he is in the hospital. The doctors tell him he is fine and that other than the mysterious “B”-shaped scar on his forehead, they can’t even tell he was struck by lightning. Tony goes home and starts playing basketball, hoping that the lightning gave him a magical skill in basketball. He shoots from the free throw line. It misses and Tony’s heart sinks. But then what is weird is that the Basketball responds to Tony’s mind and lifts up from the ground by itself and goes through the hoop!
Tony can’t believe it except that he expected it. He tries to move other things with his mind, such as a baseball, a pop can, and in one funny scene, a girl’s bra, but it’s no use. It looks like Tony can only move basketballs with his mind!
Still, this ability makes Tony the star of the basketball team immediately. Nobody can believe it. Tony shoots the ball from wherever he is on the court, puts his fingers up to his temples and squints his eyes, and just like that, the basketball goes into the hoop.
Tony becomes an overnight hero and soon doesn’t have time for Wedgie or Myrna. He only hangs with the cool kids now.
But at the same time, a crime wave is happening around town. A mysterious burglar is going from house to house stealing everybody’s things. The burglaries are done so well that the police are scared and refuse to do anything about them. With a burglar given free reign, property values PLUMMET. This is a huge problem for the community, as explained in the majority of the movie. What can be done?
Tony, when not controlling the basketball with his mind and giving his team a shot at the state basketball title, enjoys mystery books. He’s long considered himself an amateur detective. Still, it isn’t until he’s writing a report on basketball that Tony thinks he has a chance at finding the burglar.
While writing his report entitled “Basketball!,” Tony Gorgotron discovers that just as he had always expected, he can not only control Basketballs, but he can control anything with the word “Basketball” on it! With this newfound power, Tony can track down the burglar, catch him, and become even more popular.
In the daytime Tony wins basketball games and eats lunch with the cool people. But in the nighttime, he listens to a police scanner and stakes out houses he thinks the burglar might burgle. Also, Tony writes the word “Basketball” on everything he can get his hands on and he makes them levitate and twirl around some.
While staking out a house, Tony falls asleep for two minutes. When he wakes up, he realizes that the house he’s watching is being burgled! Tony quickly writes “Basketball” on his hand and flies over to the house.
Tony can’t believe his eyes. Burgling the house is the very same lightning that gave him his powers! It doesn’t make any sense! He tries to stop the lighting by writing “Basketball” on things and mind-throwing them at the lightning, but the lightning dodges everything that Tony mind-throws. Branches of electricity shoot into Tony, while other branches of electricity continue to steal things. Soon the electricity is too much for Tony, and he once again blacks out.
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