Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Uncle Drew recruits a squad of older basketball players to return to the court to compete in a tournament.
Uncle Drew is a perfectly serviceable but unremarkable comedy spun off from a Pepsi ad campaign. The plot is a formulaic underdog sports story with a predictable road-trip recruitment arc and a feel-good tournament climax. The acting from NBA players in old-age makeup is charming but limited, with Kyrie Irving and company playing broad comedic caricatures rather than fully realized characters. Cinematography is functional sports-comedy fare with nothing distinctive. The old-man makeup and basketball gimmick gives it a mild novelty hook, but the overall execution is too conventional to stand out. The ending delivers exactly what audiences expect with no surprises.