They hit the road in a retro van to pick up Preacher (Chris Webber), Lights (Reggie Miller), Boots (Nate Robinson) and Big Fella (Shaquille O'Neal). When Dax links up with Drew, it's time for the best part of any sports movie: putting together the team of wacky characters. Now he spends his days schooling "youngbloods" at every playground court in town. He seems to exist mostly in legends and rumors, storied for his skills and style, though he never made it big after his team broke up and they all disappeared in the '70s. When Mookie swipes Dax's star player, team and girl (Tiffany Haddish), enter Uncle Drew. (The $100,000 prize is also tempting.) Dax stays on the sidelines, coaching, still smarting from a wicked block laid down by his rival, Mookie (an off-the-wall Nick Kroll), as a youth. He's a basketball fan who dreams of running the court at the legendary blacktop tournament Rucker Classic in Harlem. Lil Rel Howery, who played everyone's favorite TSA agent in "Get Out," steps easily from the sidekick to the leading man role as Dax. He's that charming on screen, even under layers of latex.īut "Uncle Drew" has several MVPs who make the movie work. The film is guaranteed to make Irving a Hollywood star. Writer Jay Longino and director Charles Stone III craft an underdog story around the character of Uncle Drew, a septuagenarian street baller invented and performed by 26-year-old Boston Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving, who simply channels the cantankerous old player. The film, which features beloved NBA stars under layers of old-age makeup and a lead character developed for a series of Pepsi web videos, is just so incredibly strange its genuine humor and heart catch you off guard. Highly entertaining and even more endearing, the elderly basketball romp "Uncle Drew" is the surprise comedy of the summer.
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