Uncle Drew (2018)

Uncle Drew (2018)

3/10

Starring

Kyrie Irving

Lil Rel Howery

Shaquille O'Neal

Chris Webber

Reggie Miller

 

Directed by Charles Stone III

There’s a time for everything, they say—a time for movie studios to produce good movies and a time when you wish they’d done better with their money.
Uncle Drew falls into the category of: why did the studio invest in this lump of trash?
I know the financial potential can be very appealing to a studio. Everyone wants to make a movie that turns into a profitable franchise. But it seems like every bad idea gets lumped in with good ones, while better movies get overlooked.
I’m glad that, regardless of the possible profit this movie might make, it won’t become a franchise.
So I scream, Amen—Hallelujah to that.

Uncle Drew is a sports comedy about an old man and his crew showing that, even though they’ve aged, the love for basketball is still in their blood. The movie is silly, to say the least, and it doesn’t even try to make any logical sense. But I guess that’s the point, since it’s based on a Pepsi commercial (and the movie is co-sponsored by Pepsi). The level of silliness in this movie is astonishing. You won’t believe it was made to entertain and not to disgust.
If you’re down for that level of silliness, then this movie might sit well with you.
But if you’re like me, and when silliness goes over the top, the entire movie becomes a bore, then you won’t like this movie. I didn’t like Uncle Drew, and I’m surprised some people did. I guess to each their own.

In his younger days, Uncle Drew was painted as the best basketball player in the world. He was the one who made everyone respect the game because the way he played with his crew was unbelievable, to say the least.
But Drew let the fame get to him, messed up before a big game, and it cost him everything.

Dax (Lil Rel Howery) is a loser trying to put together a basketball team with a star player, hoping to win a competition and the $100,000 prize money. By his side is his girlfriend, Jess (Tiffany Haddish), who’s with him only because she hopes his star player will bring home the cash.
Dax has a rival who wants to steal his star player and build a team to win the same prize money. The rival succeeds—and also takes Dax’s girl.

Alone, with no home and no one to call his lover, Dax stumbles into the streets and runs into Uncle Drew. Together, they decide to put together Drew’s old team and try to win the competition.
The movie is a pain and drains you of all that’s worthwhile, despite the numerous basketball star cameos. Please skip this trash.