Looking for movie tickets? In this Chapter, Uncle Drew seeks out an old friend to help school the Youngbloods on the court. Screen Reader Users: To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our Flixster. It has some great clips of Kyrie and the crew performing trick shots, but the first half of the movie still seemed to lack enough bball. Chapter 4 5. Shoutout to them!
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Stream new movie releases and classic favorites on HBO. Nate Robinson, Actor: Uncle Drew. Earn points on every ticket you buy. View Comments. In Chapter 3, Uncle Drew convinces Lights to head back down to the park and find his groove again, despite Betty Lou doing everything she can to stop the old man from breaking a bone. Uncle Drew is a fun movie, but maybe not a funny movie. Self-aware product placement is a very old way to get viewers to laugh at how everything is advertising now while still turning everything into advertising, but sue me, I laughed.
But I would argue that even one of the things that makes the movie seem like a risk — the fact that fully six of its major characters are played by professional basketball players — is a secret strength. The less said about the movies built around him , the better. I might even argue that the star-centric approach of the NBA, in which having just five players in a starting lineup means having bigger personalities than in baseball or football, lends itself more readily to the charismatic performers who might otherwise have tried to become actors in another life.
The release of Uncle Drew also seems specifically timed to this particular moment. Its June 29 release date is two weeks after the last major studio comedy Tag and just over two weeks after the last major studio movie with a black lead Superfly.
Uncle Drew really only had Sicario 2 for its opening weekend competition. But the timing is interesting in another way, namely that the NBA season just wrapped up in early June, with the Golden State Warriors winning their second consecutive title over the Cleveland Cavaliers. All of these factors combine to make Uncle Drew an enjoyable summer time-waster, the sort of movie you enjoy for the air conditioning as much as anything else. But to get why Uncle Drew rises beyond that level, we have to go deeper.
I had a good time with it, to be sure, but it also felt frequently like I was watching a spinoff movie for an SNL standby character I had just forgotten the existence of.
At its worst, the movie feels like a cross-pollination of a film like that with Field of Dreams and Space Jam. The film overloads Dax with arcs — he needs to find a family; he needs to learn to overcome his fears; he needs to learn to stop relying on stars and embrace the whole team — but it always comes back to the idea that finding Uncle Drew gives him a center in his life, that he was overcompensating for his childhood by trying to be great, when he really just needed to be good.
Yes, this is nestled amid a bunch of jokes about how old men smell funny and like to turn the heat up really high in their cars. We know that the underdogs will triumph at the last minute, because they have the right ideals. Strip away all of the theatrics of professional sports, and the best players have to love the game on some level.
The same goes for Drew and his pals, who are very much stereotypical old men in a movie possessed of sage wisdom, crotchety, prone to doing ridiculous things, etc. Drew himself needs to learn a lesson about humility and asking for forgiveness. Ultimately, I think my pal Charles Bramesco is onto something when he compares this movie to a kung fu flick. Watch offline. Available to download. Comedies , Sports Movies. This movie is Feel-Good, Exciting. More Like This. Coming Soon. Agent King.
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