What’s It About
After draining his life savings to enter a team in the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem, Dax (LilRel Howery) is dealt a series of unfortunate setbacks, including losing his team to his longtime rival (Nick Kroll). Desperate to win the tournament and the cash prize, Dax stumbles upon the man, the myth, the legend Uncle Drew (NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving) and convinces him to return to the court one more time. The two men embark on a road trip to round up Drew’s old basketball squad (Shaquille O’Neal, Chris Webber, Reggie Miller, Nate Robinson, and Lisa Leslie) and prove that a group of septuagenarians can still win the big one.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
Although Uncle Drew started as commercials for Pepsi in 2012, this family-rated PG-13 movie begins by giving us an entire backstory for Uncle Drew and his crew. After the introduction, we meet Dax, the broke coach of Harlem’s Money. Once again, we get another backstory and find out why Dax is the person he is. At this point, we are supposed to start feeling sorry for Dax, but his low points are so over the top he could be the poster child for pity parties. As a child, his game-winning gets blocked. As an adult, his girlfriend, his team, and his rival (the person that blocked his shot as a kid) don’t respect him. He loses his team, continues to embarrass himself and loses his girlfriend. A visit to the barbershop helps convince Dex to seek the help of the blacktop legend, Uncle Drew. Now armed with a hope and a new purpose, Dax, and Uncle Drew go on a road trip to locate Uncle Drew’s teammates. After the team is back together, it’s on to the tournament. To get to this point, we have been taught many, many lessons about how to treat each other and how true stars should act and use their status. Uncle Drew is a fun movie with a very transparent message of family and forgiveness, and while there’s nothing new about this type of story or its delivery, it’s still a welcome change from all the negativity most films have displayed lately.
OUT RATING – AN UNFORGIVING 6.5
Media
- Genre – Comedy
- Street date
- Digital – September 11th 2018
- DVD/Blu-Ray/4K – September 28th 2018
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 1.85:1
- Sound
- English Dolby Atmos, English 2.0 Dolby Digital Audio Optimized for Late-Night Listening, English Descriptive Audio
- Subtitles – English, Spanish, English SDH
Extras
- DEAR DREW Animated Short
- 7 Deleted Scenes
- “Who is Uncle Drew? The Making of a Basketball Icon” “Youngbloods of Comedy”
- “Bucket Seats & Boom Boom Rooms: Uncle Drew’s Van”
- Enhanced Audio Commentary with Director Charles Stone III