Review of Old Dads

Old Dads (2023)
8/10
Entertaining and sometimes brutally real comedy.
10 April 2024
Imagine a buddy-dad comedy, you've seen those: several dads figuring things together, mixed with a Bill Burr special and you get this movie. It's not like it's a brilliant piece of cinema of unfathomable originality, but that's what makes it work. You have no expectations and, fifteen minutes in, you're cringing at the things happening to those poor people and laughing at the same time. Because what else can one do when faced with pure reality than laugh-cry?

So depending on your nationality, mood, political leaning and generation, you will either love this, hate it, be really terrified by it or any combination of the above. The movie takes a really kind and conciliatory path (which is what Bill Burr really does with all that apparently offensive talk) so it suggests we do have hope. So many things in the film are presented as absurd, but they do happen, which is terrifying to me, especially since I see it happening in my country, too, not just in crazy America.

The people in it look like they had a lot of fun, there are many cameos, silly stuff, real stuff, emotional stuff. You get a bit of everything. I liked it.
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