What kind of priorities are those?
Its one of those lightweight summer diversions thats a hundred times funnier than you expect.
Which isnt to say its great just not as disposable as it could have been.
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What makes the film work, though, is that it doesnt aim too high.
Its like a slam dunk on an 8-foot rim.
After Daxs star player defects to Mookies team, Dax needs a new squad fast.
What he gets instead is anoldone.
And then he just seemed to vanish one of basketballs great what-if tales.
Uncle Drew may look like Ozzie Davis, but he plays like Anthony Davis.
But with a premise this broad, quite frankly he doesnt really have to be.
None of these gentle giants can act in the traditional sense or even the non-traditional sense.
But they do convey heart, which is this particular comedys stealth weapon.
But Stones film was never going to be a movie that people walked out of praising it for originality.
