djkramtx
As a movie, I'd give it about 6 stars. As a basketball fan I give the basketball scenes and line up 8 Stars. Wish they'd showed more. I did enjoy how they extended the Pepsi promos with a decent storyline. Enjoyed the cast and some of the inside basketball humor. The teenagers beside me didn't get the timeout joke by the preacher. A decent way to spend a couple of hours during the dog days of summer.
Hellmant
'UNCLE DREW': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five)The hit sports comedy starring NBA legend Kyle Irving as the title character, based on a role he played in Pepsi Max commercials (in 2012). The film also costars former NBA stars Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Webber, Reggie Miller, Nate Robinson, and former WNBA star Lisa Leslie. Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish, Nick Kroll, Erica Ash and Mike Epps also costar in the movie. It was directed by Charles Stone III, and written by Jay Longino. The film tells the story of a group of elderly former basketball players who enter the Rucker Classic together, to recapture their glory days, with the help of an outcast loser coach. It's gotten mostly positive reviews from critics, and it's also a modest hit at the Box Office as well. I enjoyed it mostly. Dax (Howery) is a bullied and broke coach, who's still haunted by a game he blew years earlier. His longtime rival, Mookie (Kroll), steals Dax's team and his superficial girlfriend (Haddish). Then Dax meets streetball legend Uncle Drew (Irving), and he convinces the former basketball star to enter the Rucker Classic with him. The two go on a road trip together, to collect the rest of Uncle Drew's old elderly teammates. The movie is mostly amusing, from start to finish. It's definitely not hilarious (in my opinion), but it's always at least mildly funny (and amusing). The characters are likable and all worth rooting for (except for Kroll and Haddish obviously), but the film is extremely formulaic and unoriginal too. I'd still say it's mostly worth watching though, especially if you're a basketball fan (which I'm not).
charlescentury
I was looking forward to seeing the movie; I saw it on the day it was released; after seeing and hearing quite a few sexual references and profanity.... after the Baptism Scene O walked out of movie...I wouldn't want to support a movie that made fun of the Sacrament of Baptism and certainly wouldn't want my children to see it. This movie and many others could be just as funny without any of the aforementioned.
